Will there be a development of my problem with an Android phone?

Question

I would like to start learning Android app development (nothing huge, just for learning). Before I start, I would like to know if the development on the Android phone that I use daily will be damaged or changed in any way if I use it as a development device.

I probably won’t put anything on the market, but I would just like to check how everything works with Android development.

Any help that helps me is wonderful.

Thanks.

Answer 1

No, absolutely not! Sorry for the short response, but what is it.

The only problem I can think of is writing to the internal memory more than usual, but if you install many new applications, the effect will be the same, so nothing special. And, as alextsc said, if you write something and it doesn’t work, just delete it and that’s it.

Answer 2

This should not cause any problems. The only problem I can imagine is to enable the installation of applications from unknown sources (i.e. not on the market). You just need to be smart not to install applications from ingenious places.

Answer 3

Not at all. But even better, when you set everything up (Eclipse, Android SDK and ADT Eclipse plugin), you will also get an Android emulator that you can test your development projects in practice.

However, it is just fine (and recommended) to test on the device itself, but if you just play, you can just use the emulator and only deploy it to your device, if the end result is something I would like to show my friends!

Good luck

Answer 4

In addition to the answers above,

In fact, you should test your device when you create an application that uses one of the following actions:

• GPS or wi-fi to get the user's location

• when you want to use any phone sensor in your application

• when you try to integrate the camera / camcorder into your application

• you may also need to actually test the phone / sms functionality built into the application

otherwise the emulator just works fine