Android Emulator Tips and Tricks [closed]

Answer 1

You can enable/disable the Emulator Network with: F8

Great for testing service interruptions while your app is connected to some web based service. It allows very fast disabling just at the moment a download or a webservice started.

Answer 2

You can try your hands on a bunch of tricks using keyboard key and taken from the Android official documentation. See the below image.

Answer 3

You can rotate it: Ctrl + F11.

Answer 4

You can get the Android Market running in the emulator.

Answer 5

Using DDMS to debug a service which has no Activity.

Assuming you've written a service in its own apk which to be used by another application, then it's not possible to set break points in the service app's code and have them trigger when the other app runs and invokes the service.

If, however, you go to the DDMS perspective, find the service's thread and highlight it, then click the bug icon in the DDMS, breakpoints are triggered.

This answers one of my own (unanswered) questions.

Answer 6

You can use DDMS to create screenshots from applications running on hardware. Just hit Ctrl-S from within the DDMS program. Great for creating screenshots for the Android Market, especially if your application runs poorly on the emulator.

I'd been capturing screenshots from the emulator and trimming them with Image Magick until I had this pointed out to me by a colleague at work.