How Does One Get Processing 2 + Android To Work on Windows 7

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artsnova

How Does One Get Processing 2 + Android To Work on Windows 7

in Android Processing • 4 months ago

I've tried with 32 bit and 64 bit Processing - in multiple locations, with/without admin authority. The "Add Mode" tool fails 100% of the time on everything: Android, Javascript, Coffeescript.

Manually adding the Android files to the /modes directory (which /modes? - doesn't matter as I've tried adding to both) doesn't work because when Processing is started, it doesn't recognize that the mode was added (Is there something that needs to be manually added to the preferences.txt file?).

So is there someone somewhere who can give me precise directions on how to get Processing/Android installed and working on a Windows 7 PC?

Best Regards, Jim

Replies(6)

artsnova

Re: How Does One Get Processing 2 + Android To Work on Windows 7

4 months ago

Finally got Processing to recognize the Android mode files. It turns out that I have not two but three different /modes directories created by Processing. The /modes directory in which the Android files MUST be placed is the /modes that is a subdirectory of your sketch directory (see File -> Preferences - Sketchbook Location to discover where this directory is).

Ignore those who tell you to put it in either the main Processing-2.0/modes or the /username/My Documents/Processing/modes directories unless those directories correspond with your sketch directory.

Best Regards, Jim

artsnova

Re: How Does One Get Processing 2 + Android To Work on Windows 7

4 months ago

First attempt at installing the Android SDK following one set of instructions failed to work with Processing.

Uninstalling and reinstalling the Android SDK using the install instructions found here:
http://wiki.processing.org/w/Android

did work.

I can now run a Processing sketch in Emulator mode (Sketch -> Run in Emulator) though a couple times it got tired of waiting for the emulator to actually start. Believe me when I say that the Android emulator takes forever to start up and the Processing message "Waiting for device to become available" will display until the emulator is finally ready.

Trying to run my sketch on my Android tablet ("Run on device"), I receive the same message: "Waiting for device to become available" until finally Processing gives up and quits with the message "Lost connection with device while launching. Try again." And I have - multiple times always with the same result. And yes I was sure to put my tablet in USB debug mode and yes, the AndroidManifest.xml file for my sketch does contain "android:debuggable="true"" in the application section. Next step is to see if updating my drivers makes any difference.

Best Regards, Jim

Jesse Sco..

Re: Re: How Does One Get Processing 2 + Android To Work on Windows 7

4 months ago

Hi JIm,

There's lots of threads with that same error - please check some of them out and see if you can identify the issue...

hudsonm40..

Re: Re: How Does One Get Processing 2 + Android To Work on Windows 7

4 months ago

How do you connect your tablet? I tried with a cables etc and it never worked, but I now use "adbwireless" from the PlayStore. Well worth a try!

Mark

caseyreas

Re: How Does One Get Processing 2 + Android To Work on Windows 7

4 months ago

Please see discussion here:

https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/1781

artsnova

Re: Re: How Does One Get Processing 2 + Android To Work on Windows 7

4 months ago

Just an update. Hopefully my previous two posts on how I solved the problems I encountered were useful.

At this point while I was able to run my sketch in Android emulator mode, I couldn't get Processing to connect to my tablet.

The reason Processing couldn't talk to my tablet is that for folks who are on WIndows, you need to download and install USB drivers from your tablet's manufacturer for the Android SDK (ADB) to use. The information on that part of the process can be found here:
http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html#Drivers

At this point I've located and downloaded the drivers for my Samsung tablet (Samsung's name for this is the Kies software). This is also the software that is used to update the tablet's firmware. The kies install takes some time to complete. In fact the Android SDk install is lightning fast by comparison. And to make matters worse, on starting up Kies it informed me that a newer version was available so I had to go through a time consuming update (evidently everyone downloading Samsung Kies will encounter this issue).

Getting the Samsung Kies software to talk to my tablet required some troubleshooting which involved Kies reinstalling its drivers and rebooting. Once Kies recognized that my tablet was connected, I decided to test Processing's ability to connect without completing the steps about installing the USB drivers listed at the URL I referenced above.

Starting up my sketch, I was able to run it on my Galaxy Tab 2. So the key issues for me to get Processing to run an Android app on my tablet were

on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablet, setting the Developer Options -> USB Debugging to "checked"
manually downloading the Processing Android library from http://android.processing.org/AndroidMode.zip
unzipping the Android library into the /modes subdirectory of my sketchbook directory (see File -> Preferences: Sketchbook location to see where this directory is located on your system)
installing the Android SDK using the instructions found here: http://wiki.processing.org/w/Android
when first attempting to run Processing in Java mode, telling Processing where my Android SDK was installed. (Processing stores this in your preferences.txt file, in my case as:
android.sdk.path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk
downloading and installing the Samsung Kies software and verifying that it was able to communicate with my tablet.

Note that while I was at it I also updated my tablet's firmware.

The reason I am doing this is that I am enrolled in the Coursera class "Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps". Their forums are overrun by posts from people having multiple issues associated with getting Processing to work as an Android development platform.

Best Regards, Jim