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Guide: How to test drive Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) on your computer

hadi — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:21:26 +0000

Google has released the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) SDK to developers. Android Honeycomb packs all new UI designed specially for tablets. So if you want an early hands-on the new UI of Honeycomb then follow the step-by-step guide below to test drive Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) on your PC, Mac or Linux computer.

1. Download and install Android SDK (Windows, Mac or Linux).

2. If asked download and install JDK from here.

3. After installing Android SDK run the SDK Manager.

4. Select the packages below to install:

Android SDK Tools, revision 9
Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 2
SDK Platform Android Honeycomb Preview, revision 1

Reject all other packages.

5. Allow the selected package to download and install.

6. Now select the Virtual devices from left pane and create a new Android Virtual Device (AVD) by clicking the New button located at top right.

Enter a name e.g Honeycomb
Choose a Target ( Android Honeycomb (Preview) – API Level Honeycomb )
Enter a size for the emulator SD Card or leave it empty.
Choose a Skin (default skin has a resolution of 1280×800 so enter a custom resolution to fit to your monitor size) or enter Resolution e.g 1024×768
Increase the device RAM size if you want.
Click Create AVD.

7. Now choose the just created AVD (Honeycomb) and click the Start button.

8. Wait for the Android Honeycomb emulator to boot.

9. Enjoy the all new tablet optimized Honeycomb!

Note: If you receive an error message stating “Failed to fetch url…” then you will have to force the Setup program. Follow the steps:

Close the “Refresh Sources” window.
Cancel the “Choose Packages to Install” window.
Select “Settings” from the left side of the “Android SDK and AVD Manager” window.
Check the box labeled “Force https://… sources to be fetched using http://…”
Click “Save and Apply”
Close and restart the SDK Setup program.

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Try full Windows Phone 7 Series on Windows

hadi — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:26:33 +0000

After the official announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series, SDKs and emulator for Windows Phone 7 Series were made available at Microsoft websites. But the official emulator allows a limited access only to Internet Explorer, and some settings. Now the hackers at xda-forums have managed to fully unlock the emulator using which you can use all the features of Windows Phone 7 Series. If you want to try it at your home just follow the easy steps given below.

Go here and click on the third tab (Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta 2) and download the Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP.
Download the full emulator hacked .bin from here.
Extract the file and rename the .bin file to “WM70C1.bin” and copy it.
Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\WindowsPhone\v7.0\Emulation\Images
Rename the existing WM70C1.bin to “WM70C1_old.bin”
Paste the downloaded file.
Now run the “Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone” from Start menu.
Click on “File” in the menu bar click on “New Project” , a window will be opened click “Ok”.
Wait for loading after that press “F5″ button from your keyboard.
Wait for Emulator to load. Enjoy

Note: According to xda-forums you need to download “Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1″ but i have tested on Windows 7 Ultimate without downloading Windows SDK for Windows 7. Maybe Windows Xp users need that so you can download it from here.

Try Android 2.1 on Windows here.

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Download Android for Windows Mobile

hadi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:55:38 +0000

As I have written a post about Android Emulator for Windows Mobiles. Now the same emulator is available with a lot of new improvements to let you feel the real power of Android on your Windows Phone. Hackers are working to put the real Android OS on Windows Mobile. The new emulator version includes the NexusOne like boot screen. Now you can use accelerometer, bluetooth, telephone, SMS,3G, Wi-Fi, screen on/off, unlike previous version.

Visit XDA forum for more details and download.

Checkout the video of Android Emulator on HTC HD:

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Try Android OS 2.0.1 on HTC Windows Mobile

hadi — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:21:18 +0000

Now you can try Android OS 2.0.1 on your Windows Mobile Phone (HTC HD, Diamond 2 or Pro 2). Its not the full installation of Android OS on your Windows Device, but its just an emulator which allows you to try Android. As its an emulator so you cannot use Wi-Fi, Phone etc.

Follow the steps below to try Android OS on Windows Mobile ( HTC HD,Diamond 2 or Pro2)

Download the files (links given below) and put them on a storage card on your device.
Run “Haret.exe”, and wait about five minutes.
Enjoy the Android OS.

Download Android Emulator for:

Checkout the Video of Android OS running on HTC Touch Diamond 2.

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