Debugging Android Apps on Dell Venue 7 using Eclipse

Question

I recently bought Dell Venue 7 tablet. I am planning to use that for testing and debugging android apps. Unfortunately the usb driver for that device does not exits. I checked the dell website and they say that the driver for that device is not hosted on their website. They haven't provided information regarding where i can get the drivers for that device.

I had Samsung Galaxy tab 3 and for that device i was able to download the device driver from Samsung website and test and debug applications using eclipse. Dell Venue 7 does not have device drivers.

Any help regarding how i can test and debug applications on Dell Venue 7 would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

sonicbabbler's solution did not work out well for me. I was still not able to force windows to recognize tablet and therefore adb was blind.

I've found solution here: http://opensource.dell.com/releases/venue8/developer-edition/Dell%20Tablet%20Install%20Instructions.pdf in section "Install the USB driver for adb mode".

Steps that need to be taken:

1. Turn on “USB debugging” on your tablet (Settings -> System -> Developer Options)
2. Connect the Tablet to your computer
3. Open the device manager (Control Panel -> System and Security -> Device Manager)
4. Right Click on unrecognized device (in my case that was: “Other Device / Android”) -> Properties
5. Select the “Details” tab then choose “Hardware Ids” from the drop down list
6. Copy the two values from the window
7. Navigate to the location where Android SDK is installed (if you have Android Studio installed it is usually in {android_studio_dir}\sdk)
8. Edit the file sdk->extras->google->usb_driver->android_winusb.inf file (if you are missing such path - install google usb driver using Android SDK Manager)
9. Add the ID’s that you copied into the file and save the file. Make sure that you add the entries to both the 32-bit section ([Google.NTx86]) and the 64-bit section ([Google.NTamd64]) of the file
10. Back to the “Device Manager” Window, Right Click on “Android” and select “Update Driver Software”
11. Select “Browse my computer for Driver software”
12. Click the “Browse” button
13. Browse to the location of the “sdk->extras->google->usb_driver” in the SDK
14. Select “Next”, Select “Install this driver software anyway”
15. The success screen will be displayed, click “Close”