为Android开发phonegap应用

Question

I've developed a few phonegap apps for ios and now I want to create android versions for one of them. The thing with android is, of course, that it is used on so many different devices. I understand that the safest way is to test the app on every single device that I'm targeting, but is there a smart and easy solution to test for as many devices as possible without buying 20 new phones? Is the emulator, for example, reliable?

Any hints and tips from you android phonegap guys and girls out there much appreciated!

Answer 1

You can try Genymotion. It has a wide range of devices and they are reliable as far as I experienced, you can get it here;

http://www.genymotion.com/

Also you can try virtual devices from Eclipse. Plus if you try a few real devices, it would be enough I think.

Answer 2

You are right, there are hundreds of devices no one tests them all.

The best idea is to test on a few physical devices of varying API level and screen size. That is of course not always possible so best idea is to use the built in emulators.

Android SDK comes with an Android SDK manager, this enabled you to download system images for every API version.

You can then use Android Device Manager to create new emulators, running different screen sizes and images.

This should enable you to test quite comprehensively.

Good luck.