Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Android on my PC

Had some fun this evening installing the Android SDK v1.6. Had to install Eclipse 3.5 first and set that up. All went according to the instructions. No problems at all. I wasn't sure what would happen as I'm running it on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 linux. It's kind of cool running an Android "phone" on the desktop. I even wrote the wee "Hello World" app they use as a demo to get you started.

The browser app on the phone's desktop can browse the Internet. How cool is that?

The emulator looks like this on my screen:


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