Debugging Your Android App Wirelessly on an Android Smartphone | Blog | Jesse Chen Introduction Developing for Android is very easy to set up and get started on your computer. However, a gripe shared among others, not just me, is that the Android emulator is too slow. There are two methods: Connect your phone to your computer and find the drivers online (if needed) to allow adb to recognize your phone as a running Android device. I have a way that allows you to test your Android application on your Android smartphone without physically connecting your phone to your computer. Note: This method requires a phone with root access, and accessing adb over a wifi network might be a security concern for some. Video Walkthrough What to do on your phone Make sure you are connected to the same local network that your computer is on via WiFi. It will provide you with a one-line command to run in your command prompt, something similar to “adb connect 192.168.1.106:5555″. What to do on your computer Go to Eclipse and click on the green play button so a drop-down list appears.
PhoneGap From Scratch: Introduction Want to learn how to use PhoneGap, but don't know where to get started? Join us as we put together "Sculder", not only a tribute to an excellent science fiction TV series, but a fully-fledged native mobile application for the believer in you! In this series, we will build a mobile application using some of the features in PhoneGap. In this first part, we will take a quick look at what PhoneGap actually is and what you can use it for, and then look at the installation of the PhoneGap framework and the SDKs that we require for testing on OS X, Windows, and Linux environments. What is PhoneGap? By now you probably have a good idea of what PhoneGap is and you've probably even used it, but, if not, here's a brief overview. PhoneGap was born out of iPhoneDevCamp in 2008, where it was created simply because there were not a lot of Objective-C developers in comparison to Web Developers. At the time of publication (e.g. Install & Hello World for iOS Install & Hello World for Android