How to Use Your Own Android Device As an Emulator on Eclipse
As you develop applications on the Eclipse IDE, you will eventually run them to see if they work like they should. The first thing you will learn is that they will not work if there are errors, as signified by a red X by a line of code. Android has a tool known as DDMS (Dalvik Debug Monitor Server) that allows the user to debug on an actual device, instead of using the emulator on Eclipse.
An emulator is like the stage for which an application does rehearsals. I discuss in detail how to set up the emulator on Eclipse in Chapter 12. I have found that running an application on Eclipse and using the emulator on it can take many minutes of loading. In my experience, it’s much faster to ...
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