Today I got the Samsung Galaxy Note 10” tablet and can’t wait to install my uncompleted app on it.
First, I need to install USB driver for the tablet. When I plugged it in, it shows fail to find the android usb driver for ADB(Android Debug Bridge). At this time, my Eclipse can’t find the device, and neither abc. when I call “abc devices” command line, it shows no attached device. For samsung tablet, I went to samsung website to install ADB driver. it turns out I have to install Kies from Samsung and this will install ADB driver for me. I couldn’t find independent ADB driver. Now, “adb devices” on command line will show a device connected. the number shown doesn’t make sense though. Note: on command line, first need to go to the folder of android-sdk/platform-tools/, then call adb devices.
Then, I turn the debugging mode on by Developer options->USB debugging mode
Now, in Eclipse, I run my application as usual, only to set “Run configuration”->Target->Launch on all compatible devices/avd->active devices.
Now the app is installed to the tablet. As long as the cable is connected between the tablet and the computer, I can compile and run the app on tablet which is faster than when running on emulator. awesome!
However, I had an issue in this whole afternoon and evening. I keep running into “null pointer” error when I click on some of elements in the questionnaire, or when I try to open an activity( in my case, questionnaire activity). and I thought maybe it’s because Samsung use different library . so I changed some elements name, or changed the way of implementing the style of spinner (set android:entries=”@array/**” instead dynamically customize it in onCreate(). all the errors are still there. they are all caused by findViewById() can’t find the element. and I couldn’t find a pattern for what elements may go wrong. At first, i thought maybe it’s because I set some element to be android:visibility=”gone” in the xml file, and findViewById() can’t find it under Samsung library or what.
Guess what, it’s all because I created layout files of QuestionnaireActivity for different densities, but I didn’t update the version for xhdpi. I only update for mdpi (layout folder without any prefix). But this tablet is xhdpi. thus, it is using the old layout file that doesn’t have all the elements.
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