Create an Android Simulator

When developing these mobile apps, the development environment generally provides simulators, which are the same as real devices. You can use the Android SDK and AVD Manager to create a simulator.

2.1.1 create a simulator
Open the Android SDK and AVD Manager dialog box shown in Figure 2-11, and click New. The 2-12 dialog box appears:

 

Figure 2-12 create a simulator

Figure 2-12 fill in the preceding dialog box:

· Name is the Name of the virtual device, which is customized by the user. Enter "2.2" here ".

· Target: select different SDK versions (dependent on the versions of the current SDK's platform environment ), select "Android 2.2-API Level 8" 2-13.

 

 

Figure 2-13 select SDK version

· SD Card: a simulated SD Card. You can select a size or an SD Card image file. The SD Card image file is created using the mksdcard tool. SD card is not defined here.

· Skin (Skin), here the meaning of the Skin is actually the size of the simulator running size, the default size has HVGA-P (320x480), HVGA-L (480x320), etc, you can also specify the size of the screen.

· Hardware: After selecting Target, this item is automatically filled in. You can specify the attributes of the Android system when the simulator is running.

Complete the information, as shown in Figure 2-14.

 

 

Figure 2-14 complete the simulator

Click the Create AVD button. In the Android SDK and AVD Manager dialog box, an Android 2.2-based simulator named "2.2" is displayed, as shown in 2-15. The simulator is created.

 

 

Figure 2-15 management Simulator

 

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