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diff --git a/src/help/studio_help/src/topics/t_app-launching_android.dita b/src/help/studio_help/src/topics/t_app-launching_android.dita new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c075d23 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/help/studio_help/src/topics/t_app-launching_android.dita @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE task PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Task//EN" "../dtd/task.dtd"> +<task xml:lang="en-us" id="t_app-launching_android"> + <title>Running an Android application</title> + <shortdesc>Use this procedure to run an Android application, defined by a project listed in the Package Explorer, on + an emulated device or on a physical device connected to your development + computer.</shortdesc> + <prolog> + <metadata> + <keywords> + <!--<indexterm></indexterm>--> + </keywords> + </metadata> + </prolog> + <taskbody> + <prereq>In order to run your application, you need to have a target device defined. To run on an emulated device, + you must have created at least one AVD. To run on a physical device, you must <!--either -->connect that device to + your development computer using a supported method such as a USB + cable<!--, or you must have acquired the device and connected to it using the <tm tmtype="tm" xmlns:ditaarch="http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/">DeviceAnywhere</tm> service-->.</prereq> + <steps> + <step> + <cmd>Right-click the project in the Package Explorer and select <menucascade><uicontrol>Run + As</uicontrol><uicontrol>Android Application using Studio for Android</uicontrol></menucascade> from the + menu that appears. If MOTODEV Studio is able to determine on which device the app should be run, it will + simply run the app. Otherwise, The Run Configurations dialog appears, open to your application's run + configuration (if this is the first time you have run this application, a new configuration will have been + created for you).</cmd> + <substeps> + <substep> + <cmd>On the Main tab of the Run Configurations dialog, click <uicontrol>Browse</uicontrol> next to the + <uicontrol>Device</uicontrol> field and select the target AVD or device.</cmd> + <info>The Device Selection list lists all AVDs and all physical devices connected to your development + computer<!--, and all Android devices acquired through the DeviceAnywhere VDL-->. If the Device Selection + list is empty, you will either need to create an AVD or connect an Android device to your development + computer<!--, or use the DeviceAnywhere VDL to acquire a target device-->.</info> + </substep> + <substep> + <cmd>Click <uicontrol>Run</uicontrol> to save and run your new configuration.</cmd> + </substep> + </substeps> + <info>When you use <menucascade><uicontrol>Run As</uicontrol><uicontrol>Android Application using Studio for + Android</uicontrol></menucascade> and there isn't an existing Run Configuration for your application, + MOTODEV Studio constructs one for you. It determines the appropriate target device by first looking at online + devices; the first one (in alphabetical order, by name) that has a compatible API version is used. If there + are no compatible devices currently online, it then looks at the offline devices: the first of these (again, + in alphabetical order, by name) that has a compatible API version is started and used. If none of the devices, + online or not, are compatible, you are presented with the Run Configurations dialog.</info> + </step> + <!--<step xmlns:ditaarch="http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/"><cmd>If you are running on a remote device through the DeviceAnywhere VDL, select <uicontrol>Launcher for DeviceAnywhere Studio devices</uicontrol>. Otherwise, leave <uicontrol>Default launcher</uicontrol> selected.</cmd></step>--> + <step> + <cmd>If you are running your application on an emulated device and the Android Emulator view is not open, you + will be asked whether the emulator should be presented within an Eclipse view. If you click <uicontrol + >No</uicontrol>, the emulator will appear in a separate window.</cmd> + <info>At any time you can switch the emulator from a view within MOTODEV Studio to an external window (or from + an external window to a view): see <xref href="t_emulator-external.dita"/>. </info> + </step> + </steps> + <result>The application is transferred to the target device and then launched.</result> + </taskbody> +</task> |