What hardware devices do you test your Android apps on?

Question

The emulator that comes with ADK for use under Eclipse is fine for testing basic Android application functionality, but:

• it\'s not very performant
• it

Answer 1

For me test devices are sort of like pickup trucks: I'll make friends just to get access to their phones ;-)

Seriously, I do tap friends and family as resources. I'm a small shop and can't afford to buy a lot of test devices. Yet even with this limited pool of resources I've go the following devices available and it seems to have served me well:

1. Original Moto DROID (seems like such a dog now).
2. DROID Pro (broken screen but still good for testing).
3. Asus eTransformer
4. Samsung Galaxy Tab (7")
5. HTC Rezound (my personal phone--it rocks)
6. Samsung Charge (my wife's phone)
7. DROID X (son-in-law)
8. HTC-something I can't remember right now (daughter & son)
9. Amazon Kindle Fire (father).

So, as you can see, without spending a fortune I've got a pretty good set of test devices, not counting all the friends I press into service as beta-testers. With all those I really haven't had many problems with platform specific issues. I hear a lot of grumbling about fragmentation (perhaps mostly from iOS developers), but if you develop your app intelligently it isn't a huge issue.

Answer 2

I have own collection of devices:

• tablet with 10" screen (Motorola Xoom);
• Nexus S as reference smartphone;
• device with hardware keyboard (Motorola Droid);
• one device from HTC (HTC Desire HD). I need it because it has slightly different UI (HTC Sense) and HTC phones are quite popular in my country. It is the least useful device in the collection;
• a pair of devices with non standard screen resolutions.

Answer 3

At this stage I'm just testing with two phones:

• HTC Magic (3.5" touchscreen)
• Samsung Galaxy S II (4.3" touchscreen)

There's a pretty big difference in the perceived density between these phones, so it's been helpful for comparison in testing my own games. The major omission at this stage is a tablet - just haven't been able to justify the cost yet.

I'm also playing around at the moment with LCDDensity for Root which allows you to change the screen resolution on-the-fly. Interesting to see what the same sized screen would look like with more pixels stuffed in (i.e. closer to Retina display)