Android - How to load HelloWorld app onto my Phone?

Question

I made an Android Hello world app and I'm trying to load it onto my HTC Incredible. I believe it has 2.2 (how do I confirm that?)

Anyway, Eclipse gives me this message and then brings up the window in the screenshot below.

Automatic Target Mode: Unable to detect device compatibility. Please select a target device.

I'm on Ubuntu 64bit if that matters. I did turn on USB debugging on the phone. I told the phone to connect as a disk drive.

Any ideas how to get my app onto the phone?

Update: Do I need to perform these steps since I'm on Ubuntu? I doesn't mention what to do for Ubuntu 8.10 though.

Answer 1

You need to run the adb server in superuser mode (i.e. sudo adb start-server).

Answer 2

Try what EboMike said, run sudu adb start-server.

To answer your question "how do I confirm my phone is V2.2?" Press your phone's menu key, then settings, about phone, software information. The Android version is the number you're looking for. This shouldn't be important though for your hello world example.

Also, it's not important that you have the phone connect as a disk drive; this causes the SD card to be dismounted. It will actually cause problems if you run or debug an application that tries to access the SD card. You can just select charge only and use ADB/Eclipse's DDMS perspective to move files to and from the phone.

Answer 3

The easiest way to this: Go to www.dropbox.com and sign up for a free account. Copy your .apk file from your project's /bin directory to your Dropbox. Download and install the free Dropbox app from the Android Market. Navigate to your .apk file on the Dropbox app and click it to download and install on your phone.

Answer 4

Ok, it turns out I did have to follow all the instructions from this page. (The sudo stuff metnioned in other answers above didn't help.)

Here are the exact commands I ran for Ubuntu 8.10