Couple of extremely important questions

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Jack Smith
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Jun 24, 2013, 5:10:07 PM via Website

Hi,

I'm new to android development and I have some questions.

1) Quite often when I develop/copy some simple android app and it gets compiled the android emulator does not load this app, so I can see only an empty android emulator. Why is that?

2) I use Eclipse under Mac to develop android apps. In order to run I either select Run->Run command or just click a green button "run". Then it takes from 3-5 mins to load the emulator and the app. And if I need to make some simple change, I have to close it first, make the change and run it again and again I wait for 5 mins and it's really annoying. In the case if I don't close the emulator but just click "home" btn to escape from the loaded app and then click on "run" again, it will create a new copy of the emulator and I will have to wait more than 5 mins again.
So I'd like to find if there is a faster way?

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James Liu 3
James Liu
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Jun 30, 2013, 5:40:00 PM via Website

Hi,

First, I think it's better to use a real android phone for debug.
Second, you don't need to close the emulator every time when you make some change to run your app.

Thanks

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