Hi, A suitable virtual phone test lab might also be useful, rather than procuring real devices, eg -
http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/library/Testing_Your_Application_With_the_Virtual_Developer_Lab/ http://www.deviceanywhere.com/motodev/welcome.htm Regards On Oct 21, 12:39 pm, Kevbo <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife is a high school Computer Science teacher. She's working on > revising her curriculum, and she has room for an "advanced topics" > class. We'd like to do something interesting. > > The kids in the class will be post a semester or two of Java. We > might do a bit of time with SQL, and some simple web pages...but > looking forward, it occurred to us that it might be interesting to try > some programming of a new embedded platform. > > I've played with the Android SDK, and I think the ease of use, and the > availability of the emulator, would make it perfect. The school could > buy just a couple pieces of Android hardware, the kids could develop > on the emulator, and upload to the hardware when they're ready. > > Has anyone done this? Any thoughts/suggestions? > > What would a good piece of hardware to get be? Suggested hardware > doesn't have to be immediately available, because this won't happen > until next fall (although her purchase cycle is in the first quarter > of 2010). > > We actually don't really need phone capability (in fact, that might > actually be a liability). A device that would only do phone with a > sim card, that we could use without a sim, would work just fine. > > I've found stuff like the Creative Zii...are there other units that > would work well for this? > > It sounds like we can use any old Android install to run our own apps > in the sandbox, right? We won't be targeting hardware or OS hacks or > anything like that...do some carriers lock the phones down to apps > that they've signed? > > Thanks for any input. I'd like to think that someone, somewhere, > might actually be interested in seeing a class like this run: get kids > interested in this early. Android seems to be the easiest platform to > set something like this up in. (I looked at others, but nobody seems > to have an emulator that's as easy to set up.) > > Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
