Thursday, October 21, 2010

Debugging Android: Using DDMS To Look Under The Hood

While working on an Android application recently, I ran into some problems, and was finding it difficult to work out what was actually going on in the emulator. As I'm using Appcelerator for my app development, I didn't have the luxury of using the built in Eclipse tools to find out what was wrong. Luckily for me, Google have a tool for this type of situation: the Dalvik Debug Monitor.
You can invoke the debug monitor from the tools directory of your android SDK install using the ddms command.
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