Android Tutorial

By : Ketan Bhimani

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4. Choose a build target. We want a basic Android 2.2 device, so choose
   Android 2.2 from the drop-down menu.


5. Choose an SD card capacity. This can be in kilobytes or megabytes and
   takes up space on your hard drive. Choose something reasonable, such as
   1 gigabyte (1024M). If you’re low on drive space or you know you won’t
   need to test external storage to the SD card, you can use a much smaller
   value, such as 64 megabytes.


6. Choose a skin. This option controls the different resolutions of the
   emulator. In this case, use the WVGA800 screen. This skin most directly
   correlates to the popular Android handsets, such as the HTC Nexus One
   and the Evo 4G, both of which are currently sitting on my desk.


7. Click the Create AVD button, and wait for the operation to complete.


8. Click Finish. Because the AVD manager formats the memory allocated for
   SD card images, creating AVDs with SD cards could take a few moments.

Creating a Launch Configuration for Your Snake Project

Next, you must create a launch

configuration in Eclipse to configure

under what circumstances the Snake

application builds and launches. The

launch configuration is where you

configure the emulator options to use

and the entry point for your

application.

Creating a new AVD in Eclipse.

You can create Run Configurations

and Debug Configurations separately,

each with different options. These

configurations are created under the

Run menu in Eclipse (Run, Run Configurations and Run, Debug

Configurations).