Android Essential Tools

 Android  Essen+al  Tools  

Version  2012-­‐08-­‐19  (Android  4.1)  Jussi  Pohjolainen  

Tampere  University  of  Applied  Sciences  

Essen+al  Tools  •  android –  To  create/update  Android  projects  and  modify  Android  Virtual  Devices  

•  Android  Emulator  –  To  run  your  app  

•  adb  (Android  Debug  Bridge)  –  Interface  between  emulator  or  device.  Install  apps,  shell  the  device,  issue  commands  

•  Ant  –  To  compile  and  build  your  apps  

•  Keytool  and  Jarsigner  –  To  sign  your  .apk  package  

Crea+ng  Project:  Targets  

Crea+ng  Project  

Result  

Building  

•  For  debug:  – ant debug

•  For  release  – ant release

•  Release  version  must  signed  using  keytool  and  jarsigner  

Building  

Android  Virtual  Devices  

•  To  run  the  emulator,  you  must  configure  android  virtual  device  

•  To  open  AVD,  use  command  android avd •  Click  new  to  create  new  AVD  

Star+ng  the  Emulator  

•  In  avd,  click  start  Or    •  use  emulator –avd youravd  command  in  command  line  

Installing  App  

•  The  compiled  and  packaged  applica+on  can  be  found  in  the  bin/  directory  

•  In  debug  –  mode,  the  app  cannot  be  distributed  in  Google  Play,  but  it  can  be  installed  on  device  or  emulator  

•  To  see  list  of  devices  a9ached  to  your  computer  (devices,  emulators),  use  command  adb devices

•  adb? =  Android  Debug  Bridge,  command  line  tol  for  communica+ng  between  devices  and  emulators  

Installing  

•  You  need  to  use  the  adb  app  to  install  the  app  •  If  you  have  only  one  device  aZached,  the  following  command  is  enough:  – adb install HelloWorld-debug.apk

•  If  you  have  several  devices  aZached,  then  you  must  specify  the  target  – adb –s emulator-5554 install HelloWorld-debug.apk

Installing