Android experiment with Linux 64

Today I took an initial look into Android in my Linux 64 bit. After some time of initial hiccups with my eclipse IDE (Galileo), I was able to install Android development plug-ins onto eclipse.

Repository to install android is

https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

After installing I tried creating a new Android project, but my Android preference complained me about my ncurses.so.5 (Unfortunately I have not installed i686 binaries of this library).

$ android-sdk-linux_86/tools/adb version

Rpmfind came to my rescue here in finding the rpm for me. Link to download ncurses.so.5 (32 bit) – This is for FC12

Download and try a yum localinstall

yum localinstall ncurses-libs-5.7-3.20090207.fc12.i686.rpm

After installing adb is giving me version

$ android-sdk-linux_86/tools/adb version
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.25

Here is a snapshot of downloading android SDK through eclipse

After downloading create a new Android project from eclipse.

I created my first Activity like this

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.TextView;

public class FirstActivity extends Activity 

{

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 

    {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        TextView tv = new TextView(this);

        tv.setText("Shinus first Android test");

        setContentView(tv);

    }

After this start your emulator (I tried from console prompt)

./emulator -no-audio -avd Test_Console &

Here -no-audio is required otherwise it didn’t started fine for me (Fedora 12 64bit). Please be patient. It took almost 2 minutes to see the android mobile desktop.

And Test_Console (Android Virtual Device) can be created using the following command

./android create avd -n Test_Console -t 1

List of Virtual devices can be listed by issuing this command

android list avd

After this I tried deploying the app I created using eclipse first from console. Here is the command to do that

./adb install /home/shinu/workspace/android-space/FirstAndroid/bin/FirstAndroid.apk

Here is the screenshot of my first android app running in FC12 64bit

Happy Android Coding 🙂