Our first toy for Android

[adriano]

We just couldn't resist to get our hands a bit dirty playing with the Open Hanset Alliance's Android operating system

As a first little experiment we figured to see if we could re-create for Android one of our smallest, yet super-useful app -- and turns out, we have been able to.

I'm happy to share with you here GoogHelper for Android, which you can find attached to this thread, in its initial beta form.

You can see how it looks from the attached screenthots, and you can try it yourself as well. Since there are no actual phones yet running Android, you'll have to grab the latest emulator and install it.

No worries though, the process is rather simple:

1. visit this link to download the Android SDK
2. once downloaded, unzip it somewhere on your pc. What below assumes you have unzipped it under C:\Android\
3. launch the command prompt (start -> run -> cmd and press enter)
4. type C:\Android\SDK\tools\emulator.exe to start the emulator
5. download the file attached to this thread somewhere on your pc (we'll assume you downloaded it on c:\)
6. Install GoogHelper by typing C:\Android\SDK\tools\adb.exe install c:\GoogHelper.apk
7. using the mouse to act on the emulator's 5 way pad, navigate to the leftmost icon (applications), then dpad center on it, at that point you'll see the GoogHelper icon. Navigate over it, then dpad center on it to launch it.

[solved] Known Issues -- as with every respectable Beta -- we got to have some known issue

. magnifying glass button and sms button are currently not working. Struggling a bit with making buttons with image behave the same way as the "regular" buttons.

Enjoy! And as always... feedback welcome

- Adriano

[EP2005]

Installing the Android SDK... Christmas is early today!

[adriano]

have fun -- btw .apk file refreshed, no known issues anymore.

- Adriano

[EP2005]

Originally Posted by adriano

have fun -- btw .apk file refreshed, no known issues anymore.

- Adriano

Adriano,

I've installed the Android emulator, but is there anyway to get a GUI to change the emulator settings like the PPC emulator?? Using the command line is far from user friendly

[adriano]

hmmm not really sure what you refer to with "to get a GUI change" but here's the rundown of emulator commands and features -- everything you always wanted to know about the android emu:

http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html

- Adriano

[Tasarion]

And the skinning community is also active, I've already seen an iPhone skin for the Android emu.

[EP2005]

Originally Posted by adriano

hmmm not really sure what you refer to with "to get a GUI change" but here's the rundown of emulator commands and features -- everything you always wanted to know about the android emu:

http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html

- Adriano

LOL. It should have read "is there anyway to get a GUI to change the emulator settings".

The link you send looks good. I'll have to read up on this.