Mobile Development

See On Boarding how to set up your build environment for mobile development.

Emulation

Besides running the application on a plugged-in device there are multiple options for using an emulator:

• Android Virtual Device (AVD)
• Default Android emulator
• Comes with the ADT and is well integrated into Eclipse
• In the AVD manager which can be found in the Eclipse toolbar you can configure an emulated device. Create a 10.1" WXGA (Tablet) device in the emulator configuration and choose "Google APIs (Google Inc.) - API Level 13" as the target.
• Use virtual device as described in On Boarding
• If you want to run the app against your locally-running server, go into the Settings and choose http://10.0.2.2:8888 as the JSON URL. See also here for more details on the emulator's network behavior.
• Genymotion (AndroVM)
• VirtualBox-based Android emulator
• Currently in free beta phase; way faster than AVD; better support for Google Apps (e.g. Maps) and easy access to sensor features (e.g. setting GPS info)
• Register at http://www.genymotion.com/, download and install virtual device "WXGA 10.1 Tablet - 4.1.1 - with Google Apps - API 16 - 1280x800" with 160dpi
• If you want to run the app against your locally-running server, check the IP address of your host machine for the VirtualBox network interface. Use this IP when you are configuring the app.
• Use virtual device as described in On Boarding

Mocking the server

For rapid development of the mobile applications using a mocked server has proven to work best. One can use Fiddler's AutoResponder feature to quickly try out new mobile features and easily test some edge cases.