Android Development

Android is a great platform which makes creating applications for mobile devices much easier than before. But in the progress of creating your applications you are bound to face bugs. For this purpose you need a good understanding of debugging your software. In this article I will explain how to debug your applications using the Eclipse IDE with the Android plugins.

We’ll use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) which basically is a tool that runs on both your android platform (emulator or device) and your development computer. The ADB can be used via the command line interface, or just simply via Eclipse. We will be using Eclipse to debug since it’s much easier. If you are debugging on a device, you first have to enable USB debugging. Go to the settings of the machine > software > development > USB-debugging (or something like that, my phone is Dutch!)
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