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How to install any application on the emulator
0390 days
by James Elsey
in Android
I’ve been developing an app recently that relies on being able to navigate and browse for images on the phone, which is all well and good when testing on a device as chances are you’ll have something like Astro installed.
This isn’t quite the case when developing on the emulator, since you’ll have just the stock version of android, which by default doesn’t come with a file browser (or at least not one you can easily interrogate).
The easiest thing to do, is just install a file browser (like Astro) onto the emulator….but wait…there is no market on the emulator so how do you do that?
SMS text messaging simulation on android
3543 days
by James Elsey
in Android
As part of an application I’m currently developing, I need to be able to interogate incoming SMS messages. Since I’ll be developing against the emulator initially I need a way of sending in SMS messages to the emulator. Fortunately, we can use adb to poke in SMS messages at will, as detailed below.
Ultimately, you’ll need to telnet into your emulator, and you’ll need two things:
- The port the emulator runs on. To find this out, open up a command window and type :
adb devices
You should see something like this :
