Ever since Angeli said she will be changing her phone to a Nokia E63, I’ve been secretly wanting it too (well, it’s not a secret now…). I am so wanting it because it is available in red and you can wifi. Wow. And, I just want to get a new toy.

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I just got the simplest of an Android application running on an emulator on Jasper. Finally! But not after changing the skin from the default HVGA to QVGA-P. And not after waiting for almost 10 minutes… maybe more. It was great it finally worked but that long of a wait time just wouldn’t do when I start experimenting with Android programming. So I guess I really must be upgrading Jasper’s memory… Or maybe hope I’ll get a new laptop this Christmas. ;p

If I’m lucky, the emulator would stop on this screen displaying the Android image.
Most of the time, it stopped on a Android text with a blinking cursor.

My Hello, Android application finally running on the QVGA-P skinned emulator.

I resigned to the fact that maybe, my non-success on setting up my Android development environment was indeed due to the fact that this ole’ laptop is not up to par with the needed hardware specs; all this laptop got is a 256mb ram. I already tried uninstalling and re-installing the SDK and my Eclipse IDE. I tried moving it to another directory. The emulator just wouldn’t launch my application.

Sad though that this laptop was able to persist through college Java projects. I was able to run a Java ME from Jasper before! O well, I’ll try all other approach. I’ll let you know once I get this running.

I have finished my downloads last Friday. Save for the Android plug-in for Eclipse, which I got to install sometime Saturday. Unfortunately for me, when I try to launch the emulator, it would not go beyond the textual splash screen reading ‘Android’ appended with a blinking cursor…

I was trying to troubleshoot my development environment last night. Still, nothing. Either Jasper couldn’t handle the hardware requirements to run it or might as well try to re-download all files and re-install them.

Might be the second option. I refuse to give up!