Android development: any hints, please?

[satuser083]

I'm thinking of playing with some android-app development, and have come across a site (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html) which offers a package (adt-bundle-linux-x86.zip) for use under linux. There's no such package in the repos, and I've always avoided installing external packages up until now   . In any case, I'm not sure that I'd know how to do it.

Has anyone out there done android-app development with this package - or anything similar - and are there any things to look out for. Thanks in advance.

[thorper]

Have you made a package request for this? No doubt there are others users that enjoy coding and would be interested in doing some Android stuff, maybe full blown working Android tablet version of PCLinuxOS 

[tschommer]

I downloaded the 32-bit version and simply ran <home>/android-sdk/tools/android. No additional installations are necessary outside of the sdk.

In my .bashrc file I added

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export PATH=$PATH:/home/torsten/Computer/Android/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools
so that I have direct access to adb, fastboot, etc.

[satuser083]

I downloaded the 32-bit version and simply ran <home>/android-sdk/tools/android. No additional installations are necessary outside of the sdk.

In my .bashrc file I added

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export PATH=$PATH:/home/torsten/Computer/Android/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools
so that I have direct access to adb, fastboot, etc.

Many thanks.  Did as you suggested, seems to have worked - or, at least, there were no error-messages   . Next step, according to the web-site quoted above, is to launch the ADT by clicking on eclipse, which does indeed start the ADT; when I click on Build Your First App, however, the ADT does something for about 30 seconds and then dies   . Looks like I'm doing something wrong there. Don't suppose you have any further tips, do you? Thanks, once again.

Edit: I've just noticed that, whenever I run eclipse (which then seems to fail) and then want to shut the machine down, I get a message "AT SPI Registry not responding", which I then have to manually kill. Could this be relevant  ?