What you learn: You will learn how push/pull Pull/Push files from/to the Emulator using the DDMS-View in Eclipse.

Difficulty: 0.5 of 5

Description:
You can push/pull files from/to the emulator, by using the DDMS-View that comes with the ADT-Plugin for Eclipse.
Open the DDMS-View like in the picture. (If you cannot see the Button A points to, do it the B-Way).


Then open the File-Explorer Tab and open Push/Pull files as you wish. In this case we selected the '/data/misc/location/gps/nmea' (Mock LocationProvider) to pull it to from the emulator.


Alternative to PUSH:

Emulator has to be open && Browse in Terminal/CommandLine to ".../android_sdk/tools"



Regards,
plusminus

i can do pull, but not push

Failed to push items
null

what's goin on?

Hello nico, (nice name btw )

added an alternative to push files, using a Terminal/CommandLine.
See above

Regards,
plusminus

Hello nico, (nice name btw )

hehe,thanks

it worked! thanks a lot! u're great!!

I don't really understand why the push button from DDMS persp doesn't work....

Is there a reason? Is there anyone who knows why?

grrrrrr

Hello Gamby,

I also do not know why it is still not working
CommandLine-Pushing is a bit annoying, but it works always ^^

Regards,
plusminus

Hi plusminus.

I have tried to use Commnandline to push file onto the emulator. But it did not work :



May you help me? I am looking to hearing you soon !

Regards.

Err.. is there a reason you're pushing the files to /tmp? Because /tmp is used for temporarily data.

/tmp - This directory contains mostly files that are required temporarily.
Many programs use this to create lock files and for temporary storage of
data. On some systems, this directory is cleared out at boot or at
shutdown

From: http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/

I don't know how Android manages it's tmp folder, but it could be gone the next time you launch your emulator.

Ishtar

Hello Isthar,

exaxtly that was the reason for choosing "/tmp/", because of not creating useless data on your emu, you'll forget somewhen.

Regards,
plusminus

hi there,

If i want to read from a file i saw i have to put it in a "files" directory inside data/data/[package] ... but how to create this directory?

thanks!

EDIT: I've resolved... to accomplish that in Eclipse, you can start the emulator with a line of code requesting for a file in that directory. It will give you an Exception but it will also create the data directory. So you can upload the file and then restart the application... well it's not so an elegant solution but it works

hello Nico

the
"Failed to push items
null"

can be got rid of even in the file explorer,,

i found out tht,,,
try to collapse the sdcard folder if it is in expanded state,,and then select the sdcard folder and try pushing the files into the device,,,it worked for me..


why it showed "null" was becoz nothing was selected but it was initially showing sdcard folder selected,,,which is a stupid eclipse prob

if it still persists,,,try to expand <->collapse the folder and then see...

I cant pull the files out from the device.

Fail to pull selection
(null)

what is the problem with this and how can i solve this?

Can not open my data-folder.

How come? Is there anything to do with the rights on my phone? It is a HTC Wildfire.