Speeding the Android edit-debug cycle

Question

Developing applications for Android in Eclipse, press F11 to run the program in the emulator.

However, this means waiting for the emulator to bootup (and then unlocking the emulator's screen) each time you want to test changes to your program. Is there any way around this delay?

Answer 1

OJW

Are you closing the emulator after you test the app?

If you leave it running and then start your application from Eclipse again it will re-deploy and start (and avoid the overhead of starting the emulator).

You can also stop the application from the emulator perspective in eclipse before re-starting it.

-- Frank