On Jan 5, 6:37 pm, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote:
Xavier, thanks for replying...
> Both Activity Creator and ADT are designed to work with an SDK.
>
I wish the documentation would contain this. (I would have saved a few
hours :).
> You could build an SDK (make sdk) to create/build your project (using
> Ant or ADT).
>
> Then, when you connect your debugger to your running application, you
> can configure it to go look for the source code both in your project
> folder and in the android tree (I would start by pointing it at
> frameworks/base/core/java/).
>
> This will probably require to do a manual connection with DDMS
> (instead of using the launch configuration from ADT).
>
The last part is not clear to me - if I make an SDK, then do I still
need to connect manually?
thanks,
Anil
> Xav
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Anil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I want to run HelloAndroid in the Eclipse debugger, stepping through
> > the platform code to understand what happens under the covers.
> > (I have downloaded and built the android source on ubuntu 8.10, built
> > it, and done the eclipse setup steps at source.android.com).
>
> > Some things are not clear to me.
> > should one use the ADT plugin, or activitycreator.py?
> > 1) Can you install ADTplugin - what would you list as the SDK
> > location, given the android source root?
> > 2) activitycreator.py does not exist in the source, only
> > activitycreator script, which is in
> > ~/mydroid/out/host/linux-x86/bin
>
> > -------activitycreator
> > TOOLS_DIR=`dirname $0`
> > AC_JARFILE=$TOOLS_DIR/lib/activitycreator.jar
>
> > java -Dcom.android.activitycreator.toolsdir=$TOOLS_DIR -cp $AC_JARFILE
> > com.android.activitycreator.ActivityCreator "$@"
> > ----------------
>
> > However, the script assumes that activitycreator.jar is in the tools/
> > lib dir which is false. It is in
> > ~/mydroid/out/host/linux-x86/framework
>
> > so running it gives a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> > com.android.activitycreator.ActivityCreator
>
> > modifying the script to read
>
> > TOOLS_DIR=$HOME/mydroid/out/host/linux-x86/bin
> > AC_JARFILE=$TOOLS_DIR/../framework/activitycreator.jar
>
> > I now get this error:
> > ERROR: Target platform templates directory does not exist.
>
> > 3) If you simply add the src dir as in Add Source in "Adding apps to
> > the build path" (http://source.android.com/using-eclipse)
> > then what about the resource files?
>
> > 4) Building: Does one run ant outside Eclipse, on the command line, to
> > build HelloAndroid?
> > 5) Debugging/Stepping through HelloAndroid or any of the samples under
> > ~mydroid/developent/: Clicking Debug on Android Source brings up a
> > list of classes (perhaps it found main() in them), but not the
> > samples.
>
> > Any help appreciated.
> > thanks,
> > Anil
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