[Q] Emulator to Phone wth!

So my game and all of it's several revisions have worked great in the Emulator, but for whatever reason, my games will not work on ANY Android Phone !!! I've tried 4 types.

All it does is show me my background and nothing in the foreground. No events, sounds, nothing.

So why does most of Googles stuff FAIL SO BAD!!! when people try to use it?

What do you guys use?

I am a graphics artist and I have 3 games ready that look killer, but cannot get them to a market or even a phone.

So do I leave android, or are there solutions for getting things from Eclipse/SDK-ADV to a running state on a freaking phone?

I am loading all the graphics/buttons via the xml layout using LinearLayout.

I recently read that "fill_parent" is a bad idea in the layout.xml so I replaced those with "wrap_content"...still have yet to test on the phone.

I am basically just trying to the SkellyApp to even run on my phone, not even snake will go onto it.

I do not use canvas, gps, bluetooth or anything, just touch stuff and text.

I'm still left confused

Here are the Imports I am using;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;

import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.media.MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener;
import android.view.View.OnTouchListener;
import java.util.Random;

I appreciate you sticking with me on this...here is my layout file...is there a problem with me using 2 Linears?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
androidrientation="horizontal"
android:background="@drawable/bg2"
>


<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
androidrientation="horizontal"

>

<!-- android:background="@drawable/blank"-->

<Button android:id="@+id/back" style="@style/ActionButton"
android:text="@string/back"
android:layout_width="45dip"
android:layout_height="45dip"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="44dip"
android:layout_marginTop="2dip"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity = "center"
android:background="@drawable/green"
/>

<Button android:id="@+id/clear" style="@style/ActionButton"
android:text="@string/clear"
android:layout_width="45dip"
android:layout_height="45dip"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="-12dip"
android:layout_marginTop="35dip"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity = "top"
android:background="@drawable/green"
/>




</LinearLayout>


<Button android:id="@+id/butone"
android:text="@string/butone"
android:layout_width="65dip"
android:layout_height="65dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="-349dip"
android:layout_marginTop="158dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity = "bottom"
android:background="@drawable/glow1"
/>

<Button
android:id="@+id/b3i"
android:text="@string/b3i"
android:layout_width="120dip"
android:layout_height="120dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="-120dip"
android:layout_marginTop="95dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity = "top"
android:background="@drawable/b3"
/>



<TextView android:id="@+id/text1"
android:layout_marginLeft="-89dip"
android:layout_marginTop="27dip"
android:layout_width="50dip"
android:layout_height="30dip"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="#B9B888"
android:freezesText="true"
/>

<TextView android:id="@+id/text2"
android:layout_marginLeft="12dip"
android:layout_marginTop="201dip"
android:layout_width="50dip"
android:layout_height="30dip"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="#B9B888"
android:freezesText="true"
/>
<TextView android:id="@+id/text3"
android:layout_marginLeft="-160dip"
android:layout_marginTop="201dip"
android:layout_width="50dip"
android:layout_height="30dip"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="#B9B888"
android:freezesText="true"
/>

<Button
android:id="@+id/exitbutton"
android:layout_width="35dip"
android:layout_height="35dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="222dip"
android:layout_marginTop="-37dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity = "top"
android:background="@drawable/exit"
/>

</LinearLayout>

thank you I will look at those.

Is my layout XML file (look above) correctly structured, etc. ?

nemoc 23 said:

your xml is ok. i ran it on my phone and its loading just fine (it displays the same thing as the emulator)

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Thanks again for your help, I'm glad it's working...guess I am learning something

Oh boy...so I created more AVD's using the other size options like 400,432,800,854, and my XML Layout above puts my buttons in different screen locations depending on the AVD used, only the default and the 432 show it the way I need.

How does a person go about making sure their buttons are in the same spot every time for all resolutions using the XML Layout, or another version of mine in the post above?

Sorry to ask for another favor, but this seems too nebulas for me to grasp atm, so a push in the right direction would be great