Setup Android dev environment on Debian X86_64
The android kenerl compile script require the x86_64 system. So I install the Debian X86_64 port on my dev desktop.
Follow the below steps to setup environment for Android sdk.
1) Install Sun Java SDK 64bit and ia32 JRE.
The 64bit Java is requried by the eclipse and the ia32 JRE is needed for running android sdk tools like android, ddms.
Since the Sun Java SDK is not free software, the contrib, non-free Debian repository are needed in the /etc/apt/source.list
For instance, my source.list is
deb http://mirrors.163.com/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirrors.163.com/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
Install the Java SDK and ia32 JRE with command:
# apt-get update # apt-get install sun-java6-jdk # apt-get install ia32-sun-java6-bin
2) For the convenience of running android sdk tools, the default jre should be ia32 JRE. Update the default JRE setting with Debian fashion:
# sudo update-alternatives --config java
Select the ia32 JRE for your default java.
3) Setup JAVA_HOME in .bashrc with the path to Java 64bit SDK for running ANT.
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
4) Update eclipse.ini to run eclipse with Java 64bit JDK. And the below lines in eclipse.ini
-vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24/bin/java
Fix unknown virtual device error for launching android emulator
The problem is after the avd be created successfully, the emulator.exe launching ends up by error 'unknown virtual device name: your-avd-name'.
I think this error is caused by I moved my Documents folder to "D:\paul\My Docuements". The android.bat tool created the avd files under "D:\paul\.android". But, by default, the emulator tries to load the avd files from "%USERPROFILE%\.android". In my system, it is "C:\Documents and Settings\paul".
The emulator.exe and android.bat have different logic to caculate the avd files path. One explanation is the emulator is a C app and the android.bat tool is actually a Java based app.
To solve this problem, the best solution is to define the global environment variable "ANDROID_SDK_HOME".
The value of the "ANDROID_SDK_HOME" is the parent directory path where you want the .android to be created.
e.g. set ANDROID_SDK_HOME="d:\"
Then the path to .android is d:\.android.
The emulator now can load the virtual device setting properly from d:\.android