Coming clean

So this is it. I decided to post my experiences with Android. Actually, this is my 1st blog ever. Well, okay, I created a couple but never for myself. 'So why do you start this just on Android?' one might ask. Pretty simple: it documents the progress a make. Maybe it's (weird) sort of a diary 2.0. And maybe it's going to help some others, preventing them from running into the exact same time consuming pitfalls I ran into. 


Let's get my hands dirty. What I am going to need (and will be using):

• MacBook Pro, OS 10.6.2
• Motorola Milestone (Droid in the US) running Android 2.0
• Eclipse Classic 3.5.1 for Mac Cocoa 64bit
• Android SDK r04
  
• Eclipse ADT plugin 0.9.4 0.9.5
  
• SDK components (available via terminal or Eclipse plugin)

Installation and configuration worked out pretty straightforward.

But when the ADT plugin was updated from 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 Eclipse refused to start at all. I created a thread over at anddev.org to get some help. Since I didn't find any I had to reinstall Eclipse and Android SDK. This turned out to be a much quicker thing than messing around with the old one, combing through various configuration files on different locations. 

Having 'fixed' the issue I just created a backup copy of my entire Eclipse folder, granting a working version at all times.

The next post will provide some first code snippets.