Android target Type Selection Skills

I don't know. You still remember our BKJIA article about Android Virtual Devices. Users who know about Android should know that virtual devices are AVD in short. Here, you will learn about how to select the Android target type of one of the plug-ins.

AVD (Android Virtual Device) is introduced in Android 1.5 ). Before running your application on the simulator, you must first create an AVD (so it can be understood that AVD is a configured simulator ).

To create an AVD, run the: Android create AVD command. Let's take a look at its usage:

 
 

  
  
Usage:   
  
  
Android [ global options] action [ action options]   
  
  
Global options:   
  
  
- h - - help This help.   
  
  
- s - - silent Silent mode: only errors are printed out.   
  
  
- v - - verbose Verbose mode: errors, warnings 
and informational messages are pr  
  
  
inted.   
  
  
Action "create AVD" :   
  
  
Creates a new Android Virtual Device.   
  
  
Options:   
  
  
- t - - target Target id of the new AVD [ required]   
  
  
- c - - sdcard Path to a shared SD card image, or size 
of a new sdcard for the  
  
  
new AVD  
  
  
- p - - path Location path of the directory where 
the new AVD will be created  
  
  
- n - - name Name of the new AVD [ required]   
  
  
- f - - force Force creation ( override an existing AVD)   
  
  
- s - - skin Skin of the new AVD 
 
 

From the help, you can see that to create a new AVD, you must specify two places, one is-n, that is, name. This is very simple, give your AVD a popular name. The other is-t, that is, target. Currently, SDK1.5 has two types of target: platform and Add-on. Platform is the target of Android Platform, and add-on is the target of Android plug-in.

We can first run the following command to check which Android target types are provided by Android:

 
 

  
  
$ Android list targets  
  
  
Available Android targets:   
  
  
id: 1  
  
  
Name: Android 1. 1  
  
  
Type: Platform  
  
  
API level: 2  
  
  
Skins: HVGA ( default ) , HVGA- L, HVGA- P, QVGA- L, QVGA- P  
  
  
id: 2  
  
  
Name: Android 1. 5  
  
  
Type: Platform  
  
  
API level: 3  
  
  
Skins: HVGA ( default ) , HVGA- L, HVGA- P, QVGA- L, QVGA- P  
  
  
id: 3  
  
  
Name: Google APIs  
  
  
Type: Add- On  
  
  
Vendor: Google Inc.   
  
  
Description: Android + Google APIs  
  
  
Based on Android 1. 5 ( API level 3)   
  
  
Libraries:   
  
  
* com. google. Android. maps ( maps. jar)   
  
  
API for Google Maps  
  
  
Skins: HVGA ( default ) , HVGA- L, QVGA- P, HVGA- P, QVGA- L 
 
 

These are built-in in Android 1.5. If you use some of your own add-on, it will be displayed here. We will introduce how to use your add-on in the future.

After talking about this, you should have a certain understanding of the AVD Android target type. Back to the original question, how do I select the Android target type when creating an AVD? Here are some notes:

End with an example. For example, I want to create a basic Android 1.5 simulator AVD:

 
 

  
  
$ Android create AVD - t 2 –n my1p5AVD  
 
 

If you want to view all your current avds and execute Android list AVD, you will see all the AVD details.