How to use Visual Studio’s 2015 Android Emulator in Android Studio or Eclipse

Microsoft introduced Android Emulator in Visual Studio 2015, which is currently available as Release Candidate, this emulator uses Hyper-V with virtual machines running on Android x86 platform. So emulator is super fast and has a lot of nice features previously known just to Windows Phone emulators, like zooming, easy location mocking, simulating camera with real images, drag and drop APK files etc, ...

But the best part is, that this great emulator with all its nice features can be also used when developing Android applications with Android Studio or Eclipse. Just with two additional steps:

1.) Prepare and run desired VS Android emulator in Visual Studio, for detail read this article

2.) Check IP address of Android emulator device Settings \ WiFi \ Advanced\ Ip Address

Getting current IP address of Android device

3.) Run Command "ADB connect ipaddress"

4.) Now VS Android emulator should be available for running and debugging Android applications in either Eclipse or Android Studio.

Enjoy!

How to use Ionic framework with Ripple web browser based emulator

http://ripple.incubator.apache.org/

droid gang (Photo credit: valanzola.t)

First prepare Android platform:

ionic platform add android ionic build android 

Install Ripple emulator with node.js NPM.

npm install -g ripple-emulator 

and run it:

ripple emulate --path platforms/android/assets/www


Last step can be also used in ordinary PhoneGap / Cordova project.

Links:
- Ionic Framework

Windows Azure Mobile Services resources

Documentation:

• Check out Windows Azure Mobile Services REST API Reference on MSDN

Some useful resources:

• Live Connect Developer Center (register your application)
• Getting Started with Windows Azure Mobile Services (video form Scott Guthrie)
• SDK source and samples on github
• follow @joshtwist from Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Team
• Xamarin is preparing SDK for iOS and Android

Samples:

• Windows 8
• Simple ToDo tutorial for Windows 8 and Mobile Services
• Windows 8 How to upload an Image using a Blob Storage SAS generated by Windows Azure Mobile Services
• Android
• Storing Images from Android in Windows Azure Mobile Services
• IOS
• Storing Images from iOS in Windows Azure Mobile Services

Don't forget that Azure Mobile Services are still in beta!

Related articles

• Introduction to Windows Azure Mobile Services
• Episode 89 - Windows Azure Mobile Services | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show
• Microsoft Launches Windows Azure Mobile Services: A Cloud Backend For Windows 8 And Mobile Apps

ADT17 bug: "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError"

After successful build of Android application it crashes with error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.google.android.apps.analytics.GoogleAnalyticsTracker

Or some other class. Probably you have installed new ADT17 update. ;)

Resolution: Move \lib to \libs folder.

More at stackoverflow.com and http://android.foxykeep.com/.