Android Gotchas

General Discussions
#1

Since I guess a few of us here are playing with Android, how about a list of gotchas or problems.

  1. The Eclipse plugin doesn’t understand project dependencies so doesn’t package them

  2. The Emulator/Bridge can get confused ending up with the Emulator starting each time you run from Eclipse, but not loading any application (because the push didn’t work). Run “adb kill-server” at the command line to reset the bridge.

Kev

#2
  1. The android packaging system doesn’t like there being two versions of the same in classpath, i.e. one in a JAR and one overridden locally. I’m ending up hacking jars

Kev

#3
  1. XML parser returns null for unset values instead of empty strings as specify by DOM.

Kev