For finding a bug, I run the app on the phone watching logcat, if that doesn't work, run on the phone using the debugger :) El 10/06/2011 13:43, "Fred Niggle" <fred.nig...@googlemail.com> escribió: > To answer your question about using a phone for develoment, I use a > ZTE Racer - cheap but fully up to the job. > > However when it comes to findout out why a program crashed the > emulator with logcat output is for superior from proving information > about the state of variables, etc, than any real phone. > > Just my thoughts.. > > On 09/06/2011, Davide Ronchi <id...@idave.it> wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I am about to start an Android development project. I would like some >> advice before starting with the project. >> >> First of all, I have done some research on which phone would be the >> best to do Android development. I have seen many suggestions, but most >> people seem to point at the Google Nexus One (or its UK equivalent, >> the HTC Desire). I was wondering if there is anything more recent that >> is as good as the Nexus One. I have seen people suggesting the Nexus >> S, but I'd rather not use a Samsung phone for the reason I'll explain >> below. Also, the HTC Desire S seems to have a signed bootloader, and >> I'd like to be able to tinker with the OS if I will need to during the >> project (this is not a commercial application, it's more of a research >> project, so it's ok if I need to modify the OS). The HTC Desire HD >> seems more like a modern alternative to the Desire, but I have found >> no one suggesting it as a good, modern developer phone for Android. >> Any other suggestion? >> >> For this project I will need to triangulate the user's location using >> GSM cell info. Problem is that sometimes, we will need to triangulate >> the position *after* the phone has lost signal (i.e. the user has >> gotten into an underground transport system). I was thinking of two >> possible strategies to do so: >> 1. write an application that stays in the background and uses >> LocationManager + LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER to receive location >> updates from the network provider and then use the latest known >> location >> 2. log all the cell IDs I see and use the last few ones (together with >> their known location) at a later time to triangulate the user's >> location >> >> Strategy #1 has the obvious advantage that it is supported by most >> Android phones and works reasonably well for what I need to do. >> Problem is, it will drain the user's battery. Even if it is relatively >> cheap to use Network Location instead of GPS to locate the user, I >> need only to locate the user when he/she enters the public transit >> network. If the user goes out of town, my application will keep >> querying the location provider for nothing. >> >> Strategy #2 works reasonably well for my purposes, as I suppose the >> phone will see a different set of cells depending on the entry point >> (and therefore it might not even be necessary to do the actual >> triangulation, I could build a database of (Station Name, Set of >> visible cells) tuples and consult it without even bothering >> translating that into actual coordinates. Also, logging the cell >> information is something that can be done substantially for free, as >> the phone already has that information and I am only reading it and >> discarding it if I don't need it. Trouble is, in this case, that I >> have seen that the function for doing this on Android don't always >> work well on all phones. I know, by reading previous posts on this >> forum, that Samsung phones don't support getNeighboringCellInfo(). >> Also, many *other* phones don't support that function. >> >> I was wondering: is there anyone here who knows of a current phone >> that supports getNeighboringCellInfo() *for sure*? >> >> Thanks, >> Davide >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
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