Hi, >The world doesn't comprise Eclipse alone.
Wow really! Thanks for letting us all know... A real device is useful for testing various hardware features - bluetooth, nfc, hd video recording, sensors - accelerometer, barometer, compass, gryo, magnetic, wifi direct etc etc Regards On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 6:22:44 AM UTC+10, Lew wrote: > > gjs wrote: >> >> >> I'd suggest using the latest Google Android device, currently that is the >> (Samsung) Galaxy Nexus, but rumors suggest it is to be updated very soon (?) >> >> Main reason is that the Google phones allow you to see your own debug >> message on the console pretty easily, where as most other phones have so >> such junk debug messages on the console, that they swamp your own debug >> messages making it difficult to test & debug your own apps. You can filter >> debug messages but the console fills quickly (in Eclipse) anyway & then has >> to be reset. >> > > I assume that by "debug messages" you mean the logcat contents. You can > filter those by command-line > quite readily also, for example into a text file, that you can examine at > your leisure. You can also modify > the buffer size to capture more data, or run the "adb logcat" command in > the background redirecting to a file > for an arbitrary amount of data. > > >> If you can live without relying on debug messages through Eclipse then >> any good & recent phone will likely do, eg Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, >> etc. >> The Google phones get OS updates before other phones as well. >> > > The world doesn't comprise Eclipse alone. > > >> >> >> >> Nilashis Dey wrote: >>> >>> I am new to Android Development and would like to know which phone I >>> should get to test my apps? Obviously, I would like the phone for which >>> drivers for all devices are easily available and for which I would find the >>> most amount of support discussions online - for when I run into problems. >> >> -- 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
