How to develop Android Apps using a Samsumg Galaxy 5 device?

Question

Hi,

I am developing my first Android App. I have an application already running on emulator (Eclipse + Android dev. tools) on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx - released in April 2010. I have already tryied the steps provided on Android Developers Portal on this link, but whenever I try to list my already connected device using ./adb devices I get the following:

mmaia@mmaia-desktop:~/tools/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached 
????????????    no permissions

I have checked and when I run the virtual emulator the same command returns:

List of devices attached 
????????????    no permissions
emulator-5554   device

Also when I ask eclipse to run the emulator it finds the device(galaxy 5), see image below, but can't find serial, probably because of some permission, than I am only able to choose the virtual emulator.

How do I configure permission to use Galaxy 5 as a device while developing for Android under Ubuntu 10.04?

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Answer 1

I have never done this before, but at a guess it could be your phone. Have you enabled the options for development?

You can do it by hitting the menu key when you are on the home screen, go to settings, then applications, and then development. If this isn't it, I will try to get mine working at reply again.

Answer 2

After restarting Ubuntu I have retried and now the error is a bit different. When I run adb devices I get:

mmaia@mmaia-desktop:~/tools/android-sdk-linux_86/tools$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached 
????????????    device

It looks like there is an id missing?? Than when I try from eclipse It gives the error:

[2010-10-07 21:32:56 - AnototudoAndroid] ------------------------------
[2010-10-07 21:32:56 - AnototudoAndroid] Android Launch!
[2010-10-07 21:32:56 - AnototudoAndroid] adb is running normally.
[2010-10-07 21:32:56 - AnototudoAndroid] Performing br.com.anototudo.MenuPrincipalActivity activity launch
[2010-10-07 21:32:56 - AnototudoAndroid] Automatic Target Mode: Unable to detect device compatibility. Please select a target device.
[2010-10-07 21:33:02 - AnototudoAndroid] WARNING: Unknown device API version!
[2010-10-07 21:33:02 - AnototudoAndroid] Uploading AnototudoAndroid.apk onto device '????????????'
[2010-10-07 21:33:02 - AnototudoAndroid] Failed to upload AnototudoAndroid.apk on device '????????????'
[2010-10-07 21:33:02 - AnototudoAndroid] java.io.IOException: device (????????????) request rejected: device not found
[2010-10-07 21:33:02 - AnototudoAndroid] Launch canceled!

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Answer 3

Just a few ideas:

Make sure you not only created the udev rules, but also did

chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

Use dmesg shortly after plugging in the phone to verify that it's enumerating nicely as a usb device.

See if you can get the adb shell up

Can you do a mass storage mount? That's not a development function but would at least be a test that the usb is working.

Answer 4

It's really easy, go the tools directory in the android sdk folder. From the terminal type ./adb kill-server. This is will stop the adb server and now run it with sudo support. Just type sudo ./adb start-server. It should detect it as a device now.