LC 5.4, Mac OS X & Android SDK problem
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:18 pm
Hi,
I've gotten my first ever LC app to the point where I'd like to try it on an Android device. I have, I admit, coming from years of VB, .net and C, had an almighty uphill struggle but I'm where I am (after some 7 months !) and am learning to love LC - all great there
All was not helped I guess by my having moved across to Mac at the same time as starting with LC... so... bear with me please... I've been in a very strange, foreign and often obtuse land but all is becoming a little clearer each and every day... so, I guess I'm consoling myself with that !
Anyway, this is my first time messing about with installing the Android SDK and Java RunTime... but after some figuring out I believe I have accomplished this
In fact I learned how to create an alias (shortcut) for the 'android' sdk and can now fire up eclipse directly from my applications folder... (might sound simple enough, and indeed, it is once you know how to
- just took me a while to figure it out - D'Oh !! and, in-so-doing, learning that the android sdk folder does not suffer being moved / renamed lightly... Obvious I'm sure... once you know ! )
PROBLEM 1
I have not yet managed to get LC (5.4) to recognise my installation (of the android SDK).
I have navigated to my recently downloaded 'adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030' folder (located in Documents / Android) in LC 'Preferences' | 'Mobile Support' | 'Android SDK Location' and selected <Choose> but get the answer "The chosen folder is not a valid Android SDK... ensure you have... enabled support for Android 2.2 (Froyo)".
I believe I did install this (Android 2.2 (API
)during installation and, indeed, can see (in the Android SDK Manager (gotten to via the 'android' script in the 'sdk' | 'Tools' folder of the main 'adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030' folder) that this item and its three dependancies ('SDK Platform', 'Samples for SDK' and 'Google APIs') are all checked as being installed...
PROBLEM 2
The location of the 'Android AVD Manager' (and, therefore, access to it) continues to elude me !
I found the Android SDK Manager cunningly disguised as 'android' in the 'Tools' sub-folder of the 'adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030' folder (again, obvious I guess, once you know... but hard to find / understand when you don't and considering the plethora of mentions to 'android....' NOT simple / straightforward by any means...). I see I'm to run the 'Manage AVDs' script from the same location as the SDK script but... I can't find that or anything that resembles it... I then thought I would be able to gain access to it via 'Eclipse', so fired that up, but alas... can't seem to see it there either
I've tried various / many different approaches from the many and varied google and forum threads but... no go (yet !)
Too much wood (in my head - for sure !) to see the trees perhaps !
I'm disappointed this should be so difficult / obtuse (for me anyway) but take comfort from finding others have had issues too and not found this process to be so simple (reminds me of my Rhodes installation days - grrrr) and also in the belief that someone here will be able to provide me a shove !
Hope you can help...
I've gotten my first ever LC app to the point where I'd like to try it on an Android device. I have, I admit, coming from years of VB, .net and C, had an almighty uphill struggle but I'm where I am (after some 7 months !) and am learning to love LC - all great there
All was not helped I guess by my having moved across to Mac at the same time as starting with LC... so... bear with me please... I've been in a very strange, foreign and often obtuse land but all is becoming a little clearer each and every day... so, I guess I'm consoling myself with that !Anyway, this is my first time messing about with installing the Android SDK and Java RunTime... but after some figuring out I believe I have accomplished this
In fact I learned how to create an alias (shortcut) for the 'android' sdk and can now fire up eclipse directly from my applications folder... (might sound simple enough, and indeed, it is once you know how to
- just took me a while to figure it out - D'Oh !! and, in-so-doing, learning that the android sdk folder does not suffer being moved / renamed lightly... Obvious I'm sure... once you know ! )PROBLEM 1
I have not yet managed to get LC (5.4) to recognise my installation (of the android SDK).
I have navigated to my recently downloaded 'adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030' folder (located in Documents / Android) in LC 'Preferences' | 'Mobile Support' | 'Android SDK Location' and selected <Choose> but get the answer "The chosen folder is not a valid Android SDK... ensure you have... enabled support for Android 2.2 (Froyo)".
I believe I did install this (Android 2.2 (API
)during installation and, indeed, can see (in the Android SDK Manager (gotten to via the 'android' script in the 'sdk' | 'Tools' folder of the main 'adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030' folder) that this item and its three dependancies ('SDK Platform', 'Samples for SDK' and 'Google APIs') are all checked as being installed...PROBLEM 2
The location of the 'Android AVD Manager' (and, therefore, access to it) continues to elude me !
I found the Android SDK Manager cunningly disguised as 'android' in the 'Tools' sub-folder of the 'adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030' folder (again, obvious I guess, once you know... but hard to find / understand when you don't and considering the plethora of mentions to 'android....' NOT simple / straightforward by any means...). I see I'm to run the 'Manage AVDs' script from the same location as the SDK script but... I can't find that or anything that resembles it... I then thought I would be able to gain access to it via 'Eclipse', so fired that up, but alas... can't seem to see it there either
I've tried various / many different approaches from the many and varied google and forum threads but... no go (yet !)
Too much wood (in my head - for sure !) to see the trees perhaps !I'm disappointed this should be so difficult / obtuse (for me anyway) but take comfort from finding others have had issues too and not found this process to be so simple (reminds me of my Rhodes installation days - grrrr) and also in the belief that someone here will be able to provide me a shove !
Hope you can help...