Hb1 allows the android simulator to fly quickly _ eclipse + bluestacks debugging Android applications

Long-term Endurance

Android simulation environments are used to develop Android applications on PCs. However, the running speed of the two widely used simulated environments is unacceptable (the test environment and data are attached at the end of the article ).

• Android Simulator

The speed of the android simulator has been criticized since version 1.x. the speed and efficiency of the Android Application in the simulator is still a tragedy when it reaches version 4.x! Although Google launched the Intel Atom x86 system image optimized for the X86 platform, the speed has not improved much.

• Android x86 Platform

The majority of developers can't stand the snail like speed, so they have come up with an android X86 platform running under a virtual machine. On the Internet, I am excited about what I said, for example, "Improving the operating efficiency by 400%.

To get rid of the snail like simulator, I used visualbox4.2.4 + Android x86 (one for version 4.0.4 and one for Version 2.2 ). The results show that the speed is only a little faster than that of the simulator, far less powerful than what the Internet says!

The emergence of sugon

The emergence of bluestacks has led to a new hope for our hard-pressed androidless (KIDS shoes without real machines.

Bluestacks developed the android runtime environment for Windows systems, enabling Android applications to run on Microsoft's operating system, it can run 0.45 million applications, including Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja.

Since we can simulate the running of Android games such as Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja in windows, bluestacks's running efficiency will naturally not be worse. If we can connect eclipse to bluestacks to test our own applications, it will be a wonderful thing!

Ignition

Does eclipse + bluestacks work? Try it! Come on!

Preparations:

1. Prepare eclipse for debugging the android program using the simulator.
2. Download bluestacks. Chinese Web site address is http://www.bluestacks.net.cn/Download/, next to the latest version.
3. Install bluestacks. Not satisfied is that the software does not allow users to specify the installation path and is forcibly installed to the C drive.

Highlights:

Next, let eclipse and bluestacks communicate with each other. The opening sequence of the two software is exquisite. First open bluestacks and then open eclipse.

If you must first enable eclipse and then enable bluestacks, please refer to another article eclipse + bluestacks debugging Android app _ supplement ].

• Enable bluestacks first
• Open eclipse and switch to the ddms perspective. You can see that the simulation device emulator-5554 of bluestacks has been found in the devices view.

• Next, find a project to debug. Here I found an example project "avg_opengles" by the author of the lgame framework for testing. First, set "Debug configuarations" for debugging ".

• On the "target" tab of the open debugging interface, select "Always prompt to pick device ".

• Debug the "avg_opengles" project. After you click debug, the device selection page is displayed. Select the device of bluestacks and click "OK" to start debugging.

• The following is the running interface of our android project in bluestacks.

• If a breakpoint is placed in the program, the application can also be interrupted at the breakpoint. OK, all done! You can see that the FPS reaches 50. Dizzy, which is several times faster than in the simulator.

Data proof

Machine configuration

• Processor name dualcore Intel Core I3 330 m, 2133 MHz (16x133)
• Motherboard chipset intel ibex peak-M hm55, Intel ironlake-m
• System memory 3892 MB (ddr3 SDRAM)
• Display Adapter Intel (r) HD graphics (256 MB)
• Computer type ACPI multiprocessor PC (mobile)
• Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• System patch (SP) Service Pack 3