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Running on a Real Device

The best way to test an Android app is to run it on a real device. Any commercial Android device should work when connected to your workstation, but you may need to do a little work to set it up. If you have a Mac, you don't need to do anything except plug it in using the USB cable. Then, on the device itself, choose Settings Applications Development and enable USB debugging. On Linux, you probably need to create or modify this file: /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules. We put a copy of this file on our web site with the ...

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