Reputation: 41
I followed the tutorial to the letter. I select run then the emulator starts up. Problem is that I never get to a home screen, nor does the text hello world display.
Is there a way to test my installation of the emulator?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 3511
Reputation: 11
I had the same problem and discovered (by clicking all the buttons in the emulator) that if you press the home button (little house) then the launcher icon (grid of squares) that the app I was launching had been successfully installed and I could run it by clicking on it. I still don't know why running it from Eclipse wasn't getting all the way into the app, but at least it was installed and I could run it from the emulator.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 2135
If you have the time and patience, check out this site:
http://bid.berkeley.edu/cs160-fall10/index.php/Tips_and_Tricks
It provides a great walkthrough on installation and setting up Android development. See if you miss any steps?
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 110658
It does take a while to start up. But remember that you don't need to close and run the emulator every time you want to test your project. Just leave it open and it'll just launch your application when you want to run it.
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 93133
Take into account that the android emulator takes some time to load.
Wait for a few minutes and check logs on the DDMS
to see if everything is loading correctly.
Upvotes: 3