both basicServer and basicClient apps work on my phone, however I can't open them in the android emulator. It opens only a black screen. I'm using the following avd settings: API 16, ARM CPU, 1024 RAM. Any idea what could be wrong?
Hi,
When you run the Android Simple Service (using the Java Language binding) application it is just a black display for the screen. When you run the Android Simple Client (using the Java Language binding) application it will show a spinner of trying to find a Simple Service then when connected disappear and shows a text box.
The Android emulator will not be able to communicate with the mobile device. You can only interact with other android applications loaded into the emulator itself. There is a limitation on the Android emulator around not having a bridged network connection, so it cannot send UDP packets out to the rest of the network or receive them.
Can you point me to the exact project you opened up in eclipse to load onto the emulator? The Android applications are called Simple Server and Simple Client for the application names. If these are not the ones you are using please let me know as I am confused which app you are running. There is no tutorial the recommended way is to use handsets since this is a distributed system it is best to see the interactions on the devices themselves so you can see both sides instead of having to switch between the applications. The same steps you test on a device you would use on the emulator, except you can not have multiple emulators talk to each other. So you will need to have the apps running and then switch between them.
bspencer ( 2014-05-19 09:37:19 -0700 )editAsked: 2014-05-15 08:28:12 -0700
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