Hi Jack, Many thanks for that suggestion, however even after "sudo killall adb" the emulator does not show up in the list of devices.
The web download idea is also a good one, and I thought I had got it to work after creating an sdcard image for the emulator, but when I tried to run the downloaded app, I got a message: "Install blocked. For security, your phone is set to block installations of applications not sourced in Android Market". With two buttons: "Settings" and "Cancel" - clicking on "Settings" causes an error. I did some web searching, but can't immediately see any way round this ... Many thanks again CHEERS> SAM On Apr 23, 3:35 pm, "Jack Ha (T-Mobile USA)" <jack...@t-mobile.com> wrote: > If adb is not able to connect to the emulator, try "sudo killall adb" > first and then rerun you "sudo adb ..." command. > > One suggestion is that you can place you app on a web server and your > friends should be able to download/install it via the emulator > browser. Of course doing this might expose your app to the outside > world. > > -- > Jack Ha > Open Source Development Center > ・T・ ・ ・Mobile・ stick together > > The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of > the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not > necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. > > On Apr 23, 5:25 pm, Samuel Joseph <tans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > [Tried posting this through web interface but didn't show up ... here > > goes via email ...] > > > I was wondering if anyone has ever been able to distribute their app in > > a bundle with an emulator? > > > The reason I want to do this is that I have some friends who don't have > > android phones, but I'd like them to be able to play with my app so that > > they can give me feedback. I've previously sent them screen casts, but > > I'd really like them to be able to get interactive with the app. > > > Now I could ask them to get all installed with the whole android > > framework, eclipse etc,. but some of them are not so technical. Ideally > > what I'd like to be able to do is create a package that is the android > > emulator with my app and perhaps 1 or 2 other related apps > > pre-installed, so that they can download it, open it and run it > > interactively on their computers? > > > Has anyone ever tried this? > > > So far I found that I can run the emulator standalone, and I assume I > > could probably send them just that and it would run. However the adb > > tool is needed to install apps. I could send them that too, and ask the > > to run an 'adb install myapp.apk' from the command line, but at the > > moment I can't even seem to do that myself. > > > Running the emulator standalone, the adb tool can't seem to see it: > > > samuel-josephs-computer-2:tools samueljoseph$ sudo ./adb devices > > List of devices attached > > > I just get no list of devices ... > > > I have previously used the adb tool to install apk files, but that is > > after I had started the emulator from eclipse - of course even then I > > always have to restart eclipse and the emulator two or three times > > before I can get the connection (I am on OSX 10.5.6., eclipse 3.4.1) ... > > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated. > > > CHEERS> SAM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
