Android - writing apps for not-yet-released devices

Question

I am looking to write an Android app for a device that has not been released to the market yet, and so I will not have the hardware to test upon. I have created an AVD (Android Virtual Device) with as much information as is currently available on the web, so assume that this is as like the device as is possible to get.

However, does anyone have any tips or ideas to make the process of developing for this platform as easy as possible? My current apps have been for personal use on my own phone, so can test performance on the hardware etc. which is obviously not possible in this case. Any gotchas to watch out for (apart from the possibility of the device never being released..!!)

Answer 1

Just follow the SDK. AVD behaves similar to a real device. I really can't think of something it behaved different on a device and on the AVD.

The only device that brought me trouble is the HTC Hero, first phone with HTC Sense. It didn't follow the SDK and they were calls that weren't there. Newer phones with HTC sense doesn't have this issue, as far as I can tell.