Debugging with Eclipse

Lyndon · by **Lyndon** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:02 pm

Hi

I am an experienced Java web developer and have been using Eclipse for
about 5 years.

I recently thought I'd give Android a go and so I set up Galileo with
the Android ADK.

I can get the example apps and widgets working no problem but...

I cannot get the Eclipse debugger to work at all.

I have followed the instructions and let the 'Debug as...' process
start the AVD and I have set breakpoints but I can never get the
process to stop on a breakpoint.

It's very strange. And very frustrating.

Also, I have Logcat working but quite often that stops showing
anything too.

Is the ADK buggy?

wjspoel · by **wjspoel** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:20 pm

The ADK isn't buggy at my side... have you added android:debuggable="true" to you manifest.xml?

So it should look something like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 
      package="your.package.name"
 
      android:versionCode="1"
 
      android:versionName="1.0">
 
    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name" android:debuggable="true">
 
        <activity android:name=".activity"
 
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
 
            <intent-filter>
 
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
 
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
 
            </intent-filter>
 
        </activity>
 
    </application>
 
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="5" />
 
</manifest> 
 
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Lyndon · by **Lyndon** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:14 pm

I do have android:debuggable="true" in my manifest xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 
<manifest
 
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 
  package="net.infomediauk.android"
 
  android:versionCode="1"
 
  android:versionName="1.0">
 
  <application
 
    android:icon="@drawable/icon"
 
    android:label="@string/app_name"
 
    android:debuggable="true">
 
    <activity
 
      android:name=".WebServiceWidgetConfigure">
 
      <intent-filter>
 
        <action
 
          android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_CONFIGURE" />
 
      </intent-filter>
 
    </activity>
 
    <!-- Broadcast Receiver that will process AppWidget updates -->
 
    <receiver
 
      android:name=".WebServiceWidget"
 
      android:label="@string/widget_name">
 
      <intent-filter>
 
        <action
 
          android:name="android.appwidget.action.APPWIDGET_UPDATE" />
 
      </intent-filter>
 
      <meta-data
 
        android:name="android.appwidget.provider"
 
        android:resource="@xml/web_service_widget" />
 
    </receiver>
 
    <!-- Service to perform web API queries -->
 
    <service
 
      android:name=".WebServiceWidget$UpdateService" />
 
  </application>
 
  <uses-permission
 
    android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
 
  <uses-sdk
 
    android:minSdkVersion="4" />
 
</manifest>
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I can debug stand-alone Java programs fine but nothing Android.

Any more ideas?

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