QuickTip: Android does not load my application in the emulator

I faced this problem when I was working with the Android Eclipse plugin and sometimes my application or the application changes would not show up on the emulator.

You might want to check out this link which Google has for the same problem. However in my case it was not helpful.

What worked in my case was killing the adb process. If you are using Ubuntu then goto System->Administration->System Monitor and hunt for the adb process, which would be sleeping. Kill the process and rerun your application.

On Windows you can go to the task manager and kill the adb process.

Your changes should start showing up now.

Introducing Google Android

A couple of weeks back I was at the TiE Summit 2007. There I could hardly find anyone who was not interested in the mobile space. Mobile phone space definitely is something which cannot be missed given that today the number of mobile phones far out number the number of personal computers. Also, with each passing day they are getting better memory and better computing power. It would soon become a necessity for all major e-commerce sites to offer their services over the mobile phone assuming that they are not already working on it. Apart from this there is a lot of potential for specific mobile phone applications which would help the consumer do better personally and professionally.Almost coinciding with the mobile space euphoria, Google released Android. It is a a fully integrated mobile “software stack” that consists of an operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications. The important objective is to deliver a vastly improved web experience on mobile devices, equal to what people can experience on a desktop computer, in contrast to the limited functionality on today’s mobile phones.

At the TiE Summit I also heard many speakers saying that “portal is dead.” The next technology wave is dependent on the platform. Many applications and services would be built depending on the platform and a business would be successful depending on which platform does it align with. So if you align on the Android platform then assuming that Android is successful, you could be successful as an Android service provider, Android powered device maker etc etc. HTC would be launching Android powered phones in 2008.

Given all of the above I decided to check out the Android offering over the weekend and here are my initial findings