You're only missing the part about creating an AVD: http://d.android.com/guide/developing/tools/avd.html
btw, you can only launch the emulator manually from the command line (because you need to give the avd name). Xav On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:47 PM, furby<[email protected]> wrote: > > I have now spent the better part of 12 hours trying to just get my > development environment to run.... I am trying to use NetBeans to > develop a simple Android app. I downloaded the Android dev kit and > unpacked it to my C:/ drive. Then I grabbed the latest version of > NetBeans. And then I installed nbandroid for NetBeans. I create a new > project and choose the Android type of project. All is well... then I > take that base project and try to run it and NetBeans asks me to > either select a running device or start AVD... Both lists are blank. > > So I figured that perhaps I ought to start the emulator running before > I try to run the project from the NetBeans side. I go to the ADK > directory and try double clicking on the Android jar file... nothing. > I figure "The emuilator must be in the tools directory" and so I go > there and double click on the android.bat file... nothing. So I think > "Maybe it is the exe file called Android" and double click on that - > nothing. > > At that point I thought I had missed something in installing the > ADK... I go to the web page that describes installing it - Apparently > the only thing for windows (After unpacking the zip file) is to update > the "Path" system variable - which I did and have now checked 4 times > to make sure I didn't point it at the wrong directory... with the same > results as before. > > What am I doing wrong? I know it isn't a google mistake - enough > people have made this work before me - so it has to be me. What did I > miss? > > > > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android Developer Tools Engineer Google Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
