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aboodman on Sept 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I Learned from Watching Notch Code

Use an actual device, not the emulator. The emulator is super slow, but with an actual device you can have 30s iteration times.

Edit: I know 30s is still nowhere near ideal. Hell, on Linux Chromium (a massive project) we have faster iterations than that. But it's good compared to the Android emulator.

I think you should be able to go even faster, but I need to dig into how Ant actually works. It seems to be redoing more work than necessary for each build.

atomicdog on Sept 14, 2011 [–]

Bit OT, but, what device would you recommend as a cheap 'testing' platform? I'm not looking for a new phone/tablet, just something for development.

aboodman on Sept 14, 2011 | [–]

Sorry, I don't know. I use a Nexus S as my primary phone so that's what I test on.

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