Hover the mouse over s_ButtonPressCounter, click on “0”, change the value to “123” and press ENTER.Clicking the button will trigger the sprintf() breakpoint in Visual Studio:.Please go to the simulator and click on the huge full-screen button.VisualGDB will deploy the APK file automatically and will start a debugging session. Once the device is ready, press F5 to start debugging.Once the solution has been built, please ensure that the virtual Android device has been started.While it is booting, go to Visual Studio, set a breakpoint on the sprintf() line inside the main C file and and select Build->Build Solution.

It is recommended to specify at least Android 2.3.3 as the simulator platform: If you have no virtual devices defined by now, please create one.If not, please start the Android simulator (AVD Manager) by selecting “Android->AVD Manager” in Visual Studio: If you have an Android phone or a tablet, you can enable USB debugging on it and connect it to your PC. When you press “Finish”, VisualGDB will create a new Android App project for you.Please select “Android 1.5” as the app platform. If you see not platforms in the list, please press the “Manage installed platforms” button and install the required platforms. Finally you can select the Android platform.On the next page you can customize the project name or leave the default names.To do it, please select the first option in the wizard: In this tutorial we’ll go the easiest way and simply create a new application from scratch.WARNING! After installing Android SDK please run the SDK manager as Administrator and install the Tools (SDK tools/Platform tools) and all required Android APIs (at least Android 1.5 and 2.3.3). If you don’t have any of the tools installed, simply press the “install” button.

If you are running VisualGDB Android wizard for the first time, please press the “Configure NDK/SDK locations” button to tell VisualGDB the locations of your Android-related tools.

Specify your project name and location (please avoid spaces in file path).

Select File->New project->VisualGDB->Android App Wizard. You will also need to install Java JDK, Android SDK, NDK and Apache ANT.

This tutorial shows how to build and debug a simple Android App with a native library with Visual Studio.īefore you begin, please install VisualGDB (ensure that “Android Edition” is checked in the installer).

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