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In this post I will explain how I set up the Android SDK on Ubuntu for my HTC Desire.

I first followed the steps for Ubuntu as described in Setting up a Device for Development:

With an Android-powered device, you can develop and debug your Android applications just as you would on the emulator. Before you can start, there are just a few things to do:

1. Declare your application as “debuggable” in your Android Manifest.In Eclipse, you can do this from the Application tab when viewing the Manifest (on the right side, set Debuggable to true). Otherwise, in the AndroidManifest.xml file, add android:debuggable="true" to the <application> element.
2. Turn on “USB Debugging” on your device.On the device, go to the home screen, press MENU, select Applications > Development, then enable USB debugging.
3. Setup your system to detect your device.
   • If you’re developing on Ubuntu Linux, you need to add a rules file that contains a USB configuration for each type of device you want to use for development. Each device manufacturer uses a different vendor ID. The example rules files below show how to add an entry for a single vendor ID (the HTC vendor ID). In order to support more devices, you will need additional lines of the same format that provide a different value for the SYSFS{idVendor} property. For other IDs, see the table of USB Vendor IDs, below.
     1. Log in as root and create this file: /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules.For Gusty/Hardy/Maverick Meerkat, edit the file to read:
        SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"

        For Dapper, edit the file to read:
        SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"

     2. Now execute:
        chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

You can verify that your device is connected by executing adb devices from your SDK platform-tools/ directory. If connected, you’ll see the device name listed as a “device.”

When I executed adb devices the name of my HTC Desire just looked like “??????????”. After executing reload udev then disconnecting and connecting my phone again, everything looked fine. Now I could see the name of my HTC Desire after running adb devices.

Maybe this post helps you in setting up your Android SDK on Ubuntu. If it does please drop me a comment below.

(Thanks to the post of it-slav.net)

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Here are the JavaFX Links of the Week 1, February 2010:

Jim Weaver sums up the Oracle news this week nice and succinctly: ‘We will invest heavily in JavaFX‘.

The JavaFX tutorial has been updated to include a gentler introduction to data binding and triggers, with a new chapter devoted exclusively to “the basics”. Also, apparently there are plans to include a more advanced article discussing this topic also.

Want tabs in your JavaFX application? Well, today’s your lucky day as toumaille has posted exactly this. His tabbed pane control appears to be well thought out, and may be of use to people out there, certainly until there is an official tab control in JavaFX.

Drew, carrying on his investigation into JavaFX and physics, has put up a JavaFX applet of a very, very simple platform game using real physics.

Exadel released a new version of their JavaFX Plug-In for Eclipse, taking it up to version 1.2.1.

Jim Weaver introduces an interesting visualisation developed in JavaFX by Nik Silver. You can go directly to the visualisation if you are interested in playing with it.

Simon Morris has put up a page that contains all of the demos he wrote whilst writing his book ‘JavaFX in Action’.

Pedro Duque Vieira has written about how he has embedded a JavaFX scene into a Swing application.

Krishna Kishore has created a JavaFX application that grows/animates flowers onto the screen. It’s a rather nice effect, and shows the power of the language given Krishna admits creating this program just to learn the language.

(via jonathangiles.net)