Im teaching a Drew University course on Android app development. The problem is, Google hasnt made an emulator available. I have one Glass device and nine students. Students cant write code and test it on their own computers. This makes it very difficult to run the course. Its one thing when you dont have a real device for testing an app; its much worse when you dont even have an emulator. In order to test a students app, I have to lend a student the Glass device. Yes, I was planning on lending the Glass device to students, but not for every single test of every students work. Honestly, as I prepared to teach this course, it never even occurred to me that there might not be an emulator. Im hoping that Google will release an emulator sometime during this semester. In the meantime, heres what seems to be working: Students develop code during a class session. When they want to test code, they copy the code to a network drive. (Each student has write access to the network drive, and I have read/write access.) I copy the students code to my computer, run the code with Google Glass plugged into my computer via USB. Then, to show the student the result of the run, I display what appears on Glass on my own computer screen using a program called droid@screen. Finally, my own computer screen is projected onto the classroom screen using the usual projection technology. Its not the best solution, but itll have to do for now. If youre teaching Glass development, and you have other ideas, please let me know.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 03:30:28 +0000
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