Hi -

I am running Windows XP instead of Win 7. I am a total noob when it comes to Android development on Eclipse so when I hit the slightest bump in the road I am clueless as to what to try next. Here's what I get when I try to start the project with F11 as per step 9, page 18:



[2011-05-18 12:12:09 - HelloWorld] Android Launch!
[2011-05-18 12:12:09 - HelloWorld] adb is running normally.
[2011-05-18 12:12:09 - HelloWorld] Performing net.learn2develop.HelloWorld.MainActivity activity launch
[2011-05-18 12:12:09 - HelloWorld] Automatic Target Mode: launching new emulator with compatible AVD 'Android_2.3_Emulator'
[2011-05-18 12:12:09 - HelloWorld] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device 'Android_2.3_Emulator'
[2011-05-18 12:12:11 - HelloWorld] New emulator found: emulator-5554
[2011-05-18 12:12:11 - HelloWorld] Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be launched...
[2011-05-18 12:12:35 - HelloWorld] emulator-5554 disconnected! Cancelling 'net.learn2develop.HelloWorld.MainActivity activity launch'!

Now what?

NOTE ADDED DURING EDITING:

Well, I seem to have solved my own problem by the oldest trick in the book, "turning it off / turning it back on". I exited Eclipse and restarted it, reloaded the HelloWorld project and tried again. This gives me:

[2011-05-18 12:33:58 - HelloWorld] Android Launch!
[2011-05-18 12:33:58 - HelloWorld] adb is running normally.
[2011-05-18 12:33:58 - HelloWorld] Performing net.learn2develop.HelloWorld.MainActivity activity launch
[2011-05-18 12:33:58 - HelloWorld] Automatic Target Mode: launching new emulator with compatible AVD 'Android_2.3_Emulator'
[2011-05-18 12:33:58 - HelloWorld] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device 'Android_2.3_Emulator'
[2011-05-18 12:34:00 - HelloWorld] New emulator found: emulator-5554
[2011-05-18 12:34:00 - HelloWorld] Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be launched...
[2011-05-18 12:36:00 - HelloWorld] HOME is up on device 'emulator-5554'
[2011-05-18 12:36:00 - HelloWorld] Uploading HelloWorld.apk onto device 'emulator-5554'
[2011-05-18 12:36:00 - HelloWorld] Installing HelloWorld.apk...
[2011-05-18 12:38:09 - HelloWorld] Success!
[2011-05-18 12:38:09 - HelloWorld] Starting activity net.learn2develop.HelloWorld.MainActivity on device emulator-5554
[2011-05-18 12:38:12 - HelloWorld] ActivityManager: Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=net.learn2develop.HelloWorld/.MainActivity }
[2011-05-18 12:38:16 - HelloWorld] Attempting to connect debugger to 'net.learn2develop.HelloWorld' on port 8678

and there is Hello World on the emulator. If the longest journey starts with a single step, I just took mine. Thanks, weimenglee.

Well, I would call the operation of the Android emulator as highly buggy on my system.

The first time I tried it I got the results described above.

The second time it displayed the hello world text and button, but then I got a Microsoft error that windows must close emulator.exe dur to an unknown error when I clicked on the "home" button per Step 11.

The third time I tried it the background (sunrise over water) screen for the emulator came up but froze for a half hour without showing the hello world text and button. Eventually (upon moving the mouse after leaving it alone for so long?) the Microsoft "emulator.exe has encountered a problem" window came up following console commentary:

[2011-05-18 12:46:17 - HelloWorld] Android Launch!
[2011-05-18 12:46:17 - HelloWorld] adb is running normally.
[2011-05-18 12:46:17 - HelloWorld] Performing net.learn2develop.HelloWorld.MainActivity activity launch
[2011-05-18 12:46:17 - HelloWorld] Automatic Target Mode: launching new emulator with compatible AVD 'Android_2.3_Emulator'
[2011-05-18 12:46:17 - HelloWorld] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device 'Android_2.3_Emulator'
[2011-05-18 12:46:19 - HelloWorld] New emulator found: emulator-5554
[2011-05-18 12:46:19 - HelloWorld] Waiting for HOME ('android.process.acore') to be launched...
[2011-05-18 12:47:24 - HelloWorld] HOME is up on device 'emulator-5554'
[2011-05-18 12:47:24 - HelloWorld] Uploading HelloWorld.apk onto device 'emulator-5554'
[2011-05-18 12:47:24 - HelloWorld] Installing HelloWorld.apk...
[2011-05-18 12:48:09 - HelloWorld] Success!
[2011-05-18 12:48:09 - HelloWorld] Starting activity net.learn2develop.HelloWorld.MainActivity on device emulator-5554
[2011-05-18 12:48:12 - HelloWorld] ActivityManager: Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=net.learn2develop.HelloWorld/.MainActivity }
[2011-05-18 12:48:15 - HelloWorld] Attempting to connect debugger to 'net.learn2develop.HelloWorld' on port 8716

Sigh. Failure on 3 for 3. I'll try this all again on my work computer next.

Huh. Can't seem to get a stable Android emulator up on my Dell Dimension C521 desktop at home but things seem to operate fine on my docked Dell E6400 laptop at work - both running XP. Onward...

For the first problem: Eclipse can be a bit weird sometimes. Usually in Eclipse when you know something should work, but it isn't, you should save all your open files, close them from the viewer, then go up to the top bar and select "Project" then "Clean..." and then try again. Since it cleans when it opens the project, that's probably why closing it and opening it worked. Still, the easier way is to just use "Clean..."

For the second problem, after checking about a bit: Which service pack do you have for XP? A few other people have had problems with the emulator, and going from service pack 2 to service pack 3 fixed it for them.

Only other suggestion I would have is launch the emulator well before you try to launch your program. Most of the time, when I run the program I'm testing at the same time I launch the emulator, it hangs for a couple minutes.