coursera-android#
Table of Contents
Time spent#
| Day | hours |
|---|---|
| 2014-01-21 | 1 |
| 2014-01-22 | 1 |
| 2014-01-23 | 1 |
| 2014-01-25 | 2 |
TODO#
Weeks#
Week 1#
- You can telnet to your emulator, the port is in the title of your emulator (5554).
- manipulate device while logged in :
- network speed edge or network speed full or power capacity 5 or power status not-charging or geo fix 0.00 40.00 or sms send 301555555 "test msg" , see here for more:
metskem@athena ~ $ telnet localhost 5554
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Android Console: type 'help' for a list of commands
OK
help
Android console command help:
help|h|? print a list of commands
event simulate hardware events
geo Geo-location commands
gsm GSM related commands
cdma CDMA related commands
kill kill the emulator instance
network manage network settings
power power related commands
quit|exit quit control session
redir manage port redirections
sms SMS related commands
avd control virtual device execution
window manage emulator window
qemu QEMU-specific commands
sensor manage emulator sensors
try 'help <command>' for command-specific help
OK
- you can run multiple emulators, and one let call the other, the number is equal to the port number again
- DDMS = Dalvik Debug Monitor Service
- method tracing
- logcat (cmdline syntax)
, for example:
adb -s emulator-5554 logcat WikiNotes:I *:S
- -s emulator-5554 to select the (virtual) device, if you have more than one running
- WikiNotes:I - Informational messages for tag WikiNotes
- *:S - All other tags to Silent
week 2#
Four main building blocks in Android :
- Activity - Interaction with user (input and output)
- single focused task for the user
- Service - Long running background stuff
- BroadcastReceiver - Receive and act upon events in Android
- ContentProvider - Provide services to applications (input and output)