GTbrewer
Well-Known Member
First, let me introduce myself. I'm a cancer survivor currently living on a monthly disability deposit,
and am hoping to make some extra money selling Android apps. I've never programmed in Java,
but have done so in C and, more recently, Tcll/Tk (freeware hurricane tracker called JStrack, freeware brewer's recipe formulator called GTbrew2 and a brewer's inventory db called GT-BrewDB that
works in conjunction with GTbrew2. My degree is in Electronics/Telecommunications. My most
recent job, before the cancer hit, was as an Intelligence Systems Analyst at 16th Special Operations Wing Intelligence and later at HQ AFSOC Intelligence, both at Hurlburt Field, Florida (the 16th
has since been renamed back to the 1st SOW) and later still, until Commander SOCOM issued
orders suspending hiring of contractors, I was at USSOCOM Intelligence for a short time..
Ok, two questions about using Eclipse. First, is it normally a severe memory hog and, therefore,
dead slow? Or is something wrong with how I installed it? (Unless I missed something, and
with the effects of chemotherapy and brain surgery on my brain and vision, that is always a
possibility, I followed the instructions line by line in installing the SDK and AVD that were
on at least three sites. First with version 3.6, and then, after reading that it's got a bug that
makes it not work right, with 3.5. Same issues on both.
Second, when I try to create a virtual device from Eclipse, it gives me the little green check mark,
saying it's valid, but all I end up with is first, for several minutes, a split display with a partial
keypad and some control buttons on the right, and a black box on the left with
"Android _" on the left (and the " _" cursor is blinking for a while, the stops. Then, the small
"Android _" is replaced by "ANDROID" in what I suspect is the font shown on startup, but
then, I've only rebooted my phone twice, and wasn't paying attention to th display.....
Anyways, it never gets beyond this point, and to kill it, I have to use Task Manager and
kill the simulator process itself. Then, exiting from Eclipse itself takes a few minutes.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
After that, later, I'll be asking more about finding examples (for absolute newbies) on getting
started...but I have to get to that point, first. Right now, I'm reading as many JAVA references
as I can find online....
Thanks in advance,
--jim
and am hoping to make some extra money selling Android apps. I've never programmed in Java,
but have done so in C and, more recently, Tcll/Tk (freeware hurricane tracker called JStrack, freeware brewer's recipe formulator called GTbrew2 and a brewer's inventory db called GT-BrewDB that
works in conjunction with GTbrew2. My degree is in Electronics/Telecommunications. My most
recent job, before the cancer hit, was as an Intelligence Systems Analyst at 16th Special Operations Wing Intelligence and later at HQ AFSOC Intelligence, both at Hurlburt Field, Florida (the 16th
has since been renamed back to the 1st SOW) and later still, until Commander SOCOM issued
orders suspending hiring of contractors, I was at USSOCOM Intelligence for a short time..
Ok, two questions about using Eclipse. First, is it normally a severe memory hog and, therefore,
dead slow? Or is something wrong with how I installed it? (Unless I missed something, and
with the effects of chemotherapy and brain surgery on my brain and vision, that is always a
possibility, I followed the instructions line by line in installing the SDK and AVD that were
on at least three sites. First with version 3.6, and then, after reading that it's got a bug that
makes it not work right, with 3.5. Same issues on both.
Second, when I try to create a virtual device from Eclipse, it gives me the little green check mark,
saying it's valid, but all I end up with is first, for several minutes, a split display with a partial
keypad and some control buttons on the right, and a black box on the left with
"Android _" on the left (and the " _" cursor is blinking for a while, the stops. Then, the small
"Android _" is replaced by "ANDROID" in what I suspect is the font shown on startup, but
then, I've only rebooted my phone twice, and wasn't paying attention to th display.....
Anyways, it never gets beyond this point, and to kill it, I have to use Task Manager and
kill the simulator process itself. Then, exiting from Eclipse itself takes a few minutes.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
After that, later, I'll be asking more about finding examples (for absolute newbies) on getting
started...but I have to get to that point, first. Right now, I'm reading as many JAVA references
as I can find online....
Thanks in advance,
--jim