I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 600m with 512MB of RAM, and I'm dying to get into developing some Android apps, but I've hit a bit of a roadblock.
I have installed Eclipse 3.4 and installed the 1.5 SDK and the Developer Tools with no problem. I created a standard 1.5 AVD, but when I try to run the emulator it just won't get anywhere. It doesn't give me any error messages, but it won't get past the animated startup screen. I have let it run for as long as 20 or 30 minutes, but it just won't finish the boot process. I tried to just leave it running and forget about it for a while, but when I came back to my computer, it had shut itself down -- I assume because the CPU overheated. I've tried renicing the emulator to +1, and that at least keeps the CPU temperature to a healthy level, but at that rate I have no idea how long it will take to boot. Now, I know my machine is hardly cutting edge -- it's about 5 years old. But it's not exactly a dog, either. I know that running a QEMU virtual machine requires some substantial resources, so I expected things to be a bit slow, but I figured it should be able to at least run. Am I expecting too much from my old machine? Is this hopeless? I expect to be able to get a new system in a few months, but I really don't want to wait that long to get started. At the very least, I would like to start learning the framework and APIs, even if it will be slow going. Anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone else out there gotten the emulator to run (even if it's slow) on an older system? Thanks for any help you can offer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
