Testing android app without text to speech engine installed

Question

I want to test my program on a platform where Text to speech engine is not installed.

I want to use emulator but can't seem to remove Text to speech engine from it.

I am using AVD manager to do that..

Please advise how can I achieve it.

Thanks,

Answer 1

The default TTS engine is part of the system, so you can't remove it. You could probably remove the data files, but is not a good idea, since the emulator doesn't have the Market/Play app, so you can't download them (easily).

Test on a real device, and possibly remove the language data files, to test if the app handles this case correctly.

Answer 2

You can test by removing the data files on an emulator.

First remove the data files by doing this:

adb remount
adb shell rm -r /system/tts/lang_pico/*

then reinstall the files by running this: http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/downloads/list