Android Emulator is not working

Some people think the emulator of Android is not working because it shows only the Android text.

The problem is not a problem, all you have to do is wait,because the emulator takes a long time to load the first time, several minutes, and in this time only shows 'Android' in large text.

You need to wait a couple of minutes and then you should be fine, this waiting time is going to depend on your computer processor and memory Ram.

How to make Android's browser load desktop instead of mobile web sites

If you want your android's device (Phone or tablet), with jellybeans, honeycomb, etc, load full web pages instead of the mobile version, do the next steps:


1. Open the browser on your device

2. In the address bar, type: about:debug then press enter

3. Open the browser's settings (the icon in the top-right corner, it looks like four horizontal lines) then selecting "Settings" from the drop-down menu

4. Select the Debug section

5. On the right side of the screen, select UAString then select Desktop as the new option

6. To exit the debug mode in the browser, press the back button in your device

7. In the browser's address bar, type again "about:debug" then click enter

Now your device is ready to display full web pages, instead of mobile ones.

The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has occured

If you get the error in Eclipse:

"The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has occured"

When trying to debug your application in your device, that means the adb server was not initialized right, to solve this problem, do the next steps:

1. Be sure Eclipse is not running
2. Open the command prompt in the Android SDK platform-tools directory
3. Type the command: adb kill-server, to stop the server
4. Restart the server with the command: adb start-server
5. Start Eclipse 

Now you should be able to test you app in your device