Pro Android 4

Summary

Here is what has been covered in this chapter:

• How to set up Eclipse and your device for debugging.
• The Debug perspective, which lets you stop an application to inspect variable values and also step through code line by line.
• The DDMS perspective, which has quite a few tools for investigating threads, memory, and method calls, as well as taking snapshots of the screen and generating events to send to the emulator.
• Resetting the adb server from DDMS and from the command line.
• The Hierarchy view, which exposes the view structure of a running application and includes metrics to help you tune and troubleshoot the application.
• Traceview, which shows the methods that are called while an application is running, as well as statistics to help ...