You can put your app on the emulator, then package up the emulator and lib directories, along with your image, and send that around. They won't have to install the dev environment, but you may want to make a script file to launch the emulator with your image.
Check out emulator -help-disk-images It tells you where your userdata.img is located. That's what I did anyway. On Apr 23, 8:25 pm, Samuel Joseph <[email protected]> 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 Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
