The problem isn't that there are fundamental problems with this approach. The problem is all those flakey hardware vendors you've never even heard of.
Essentially you want to test all of the bugs in other vendor ROMs, otherwise testing on the emulator with tons of configurations *does* work. It's easy enough to do, but the problem is that you physically don't have images for all of those other devices. (And since they're typically controlled and updated per vendor, it's a moving target to collect them all!) Kris On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Ronoli <javat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I'm not sure if this is possible but I thought about it in a dream last > night.... > I know that at this point that I am not capable, but I thought with all you > smart people out there and all the energy I see around Android, somebody > might be able to design an app just for developers. I call it the Termulator > (Emulator Terminator)! OK maybe it came to me in a nightmare not a dream. > Probably due to weeks of testing my app with the Emulator on an > under-powered PC. OK here it is: > Would it be possible to design an app that runs on say a Nexus7 (or the > largest device you are targeting) that allows testing of all the screen > sizes/densities/orientations/version levels/resolutions/long/notlong/ etc.? > I can only imagine that if the Emulator can do this on a PC then it ought to > be possible on a native device such as a tablet. Imagine, testing all those > configurations without the Emulator! Hey, I think the Emulator is a marvel > in itself and I blame my PC performance for many of my woes. But after I got > my Nexus7 and USB'd it to the SDK I started to really get frustrated with > the performance of the old Emulator. Unfortunately, my largest audience is > on the smaller devices and I certainly can't afford to keep all of those > different sized devices on hand. Imagine testing with a real device; I'm > dreaming quad-core 1.2 GHz CPU, GPU, all the sensors, multi-touch screen, a > gig of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth... well you get the idea... developers paradise! > Please tell me this is possible! Even better please let me know when I can > purchase it! > Thanks for indulging... > Ron > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
