Debugging an application on the device

By far the best way to program for android is with a device. It is faster and easier to do.

To get to this point, there are a couple of things I needed to do.

The first was to get my device ready to host and debug and application. This guide:

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  On the device, go to the home screen, press MENU, select Applications > Development, then enable USB debugging.
  


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  Setup linux to detect the device. For myself, I added the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules:
  

  
  SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"
  

  
  
  Note (you might need to use SUBSYSTEM="udb_device" depending on what version of ubuntu you are using).
  And then:
  

  
  chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
  

  
  


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  execute adb devices. If this doesn't work, you might need to do the following:
  

  
  sudo su -
  adb kill-server
  adb start-server
  adb devices
  

  
  

Once you have done this, you should be able to run the application from eclipse.

NOTE: You must remember to enable debugging in the Android Mainfest. This is under the 'Application' tab of the manifest under eclipse.

NOTE: The above was all done with ubuntu 9.10 running eclipse 4.5.1.