'ello, after much googling I need a hand.

I read this: http://android.processing.org/
and this: http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/12/teaser-processing-is-coming-to-android/

Followed instructions and downloaded a pre-release of processing so I can start playing with Android (I picked up a HTC desire and I'm really enjoying it).

Running in Android mode I am getting the following error:

"An error occurred while running "android create avd" to set the default Android emulator. Make sure that the Android SDK is installed properly, and that the Android and Google APIs are installed for level 6"

I have the latest SDK with Google API level 8. I don't have the option for the level 6 API in my SDK and AVD Manager for download (though I do have options for APIs 7, 4 and 3). Scratching my head.

Help, as ever would be much appreciated.

S

Crumbs, still having problems with this (thanks for the reply though).
So I started again, downloading the Android SDK, unzipping and putting in my applications directory. I also added the location of the SDK's primary tools directory to my system PATH (though I'm not sure this was necessary). I now have the following error, after a pause of about 15 seconds:

Could not download Android core.zip

Puzzling.


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java.net.ConnectException: Operation timed out
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:524)
     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:474)
     at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157)
     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:388)
     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:523)
     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:231)
     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:304)
     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:846)
     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:805)
     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:716)
     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:960)
     at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1007)
     at processing.app.tools.android.AndroidTool.checkCore(Unknown Source)
     at processing.app.tools.android.AndroidTool.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:2
69)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190
)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)

output gives me this: (sorry for the double post, had to make "one normal post" before posting this)

java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://code.google.com/p/processing/source/browse/*checkout*/tags/processing-0184/android/core.zip
     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1311)
     at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1010)
     at processing.app.tools.android.AndroidTool.checkCore(Unknown Source)
     at processing.app.tools.android.AndroidTool.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269
)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174
)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

EDIT: im gonna make a wild guess and suggest that "http://dev.processing.org/source/index.cgi/*checkout*" +
   "/tags/processing-" + Base.VERSION_NAME + "/android/core.zip" does not exist, cuz i can't find it in the svn :p

EDIT2: wait there it is...

well I've scrubbed all versions (both processing and the SDK) and re installed. A little closer this time, just a few errors.

Switching to 'Android' mode displays "Done loading Android tools" in the processing IDE which sounds good. I then run my basic test sketch and immediately have the alert box displaying:

"An error occurred while running "android create avd" to set the default Android emulator. Make sure that the Android SDK is installed properly, and that the Android and Google APIs are installed for level 6"

I click ok, a small alert box with progress bar appears for a fraction of a second, too quick to read or screen grab, and then the IDE displays "Unable to resolve target 'Google Inc.:Google APIs:6'"

So no reams of red error text now just what I described above. Ummmm, still puzzled here.

Well i only had the problem with "Could not download Android Core.zip" and after failing with cygwin and therefor not being able to compile the source i continued reading the source to find that all the program is trying to do is:
1) download core.zip from the server (and this is where it failed causing the error, and im still pretty sure it has to do with the URL in the source code)

2)rename core.zip to  "processing-android-core-" + Base.VERSION_NAME + ".zip" which is "processing-android-core-0184.zip" is our case

3) save "processing-android-core-0184.zip" in the sketchbook folder so that processing didn't need to download it again

So what i did was just to pull core.zip of the server manually, rename it and the place it in the sketchbook folder.
thus solving the problem and everything is now working as (i think) it should for me.

So im not having your new error and i have no idea what's causing it, sorry


EDIT: ok i've done some reading and it appears that your error comes from this file: http://code.google.com/p/processing/source/browse/trunk/processing/android/tool/...
As you can see the error is showed when processing fails to verify that the AVD (androice virtual devide) exist or fails to create the AVD (or both):
Code:

(ECLAIR.exists(sdk) || ECLAIR.create(sdk)) 

From what i could tell from your post there is no stack trace meaning a excetion is not thrown, which might mean... something :/

but if i had to guess i'd say that you haven't installed the Android SDK correctly so try reinstalling it

sci wrote on Jun 15^th, 2010, 1:13am:


I think the problem here is that Google is no longer shipping anything with API level 6 when you download the most recent Android SDKs - it currently only has 3, 4, 7, and 8.  This must have just changed recently if there haven't been complaints about it before, but there will be lots of complaints about it soon, as API level 6 seems to be completely and utterly unavailable at this point unless you already have it installed.

I'm not sure what the best solution is, here - I've only just gotten started with Android dev - so maybe someone that knows a bit more can comment  It appears to be line 464 of the processing.app.tools.android.Build file in the Android tool that's responsible for generating that command line string, if that helps at all.  The thing to do would probably be to aim for the specified version or any higher one, but a cursory glance at the Android docs didn't tell me the best way to do that - the software could probably run "android list targets" and then parse the results, but that seems a very fragile and sloppy way to do things.

Exactly Eric, I thought this would possibly be the case (I noted the lack of API level 6 in my first post), thanks for explaining this further. For now I guess I'll try and follow Guss's set up an await some more info here (hopefully). I'm itching to get playing with Android and Processing, as I know are plenty of other processing users. Looking forward to seeing this functionality fully operational in a future official release!

Thanks again both,

S