Hi Brian, Many thanks for your help. I eventually got this approach to work, but I had to upgrade to the latest sdk first. I think my other odd troubles may have been related to that. As it happens I got the app on the emulator via a browser install as suggested here:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/8527acc09836dc9d/69f1341c7cfd107f?lnk=gst&q=tansaku#69f1341c7cfd107f Many thanks CHEERS> SAM On Apr 23, 3:11 pm, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
