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Robert J. Cordingley

Android Phone Testing

I'd like to test/access websites on an Android phone over my own wifi
(Airport Extreme). I don't need a dataplan nor phone service for it.
Does anyone have any good suggestions for an economical option and are
there any technical issues?

Thanks
Robert C

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Roger Critchlow-2

Re: Android Phone Testing

I'd try downloading the android emulator and testing them there, it's the least insane way to test different releases of android and different sizes of screens. And it's free for the time you spend figuring out how to make it work. I believe the release packages will give you a browser and the means to install browsers from Google/Play, though I can't say I ever tried.

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd like to test/access websites on an Android phone over my own wifi (Airport Extreme). I don't need a dataplan nor phone service for it. Does anyone have any good suggestions for an economical option and are there any technical issues?

Thanks
Robert C

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Robert J. Cordingley

Re: Android Phone Testing

Hi Roger,
Not sure an emulator is a good approach - documentation also makes it look like a sledgehammer since I'm not into Android app development. And if I see a bug is it me, the emulated browser or the emulator?

Apparently, for $110 I can get an unlocked ZTE from Amazon see http://www.amazon.com/ZTE-V956-MSM8225Q-1-2GHz-Android/dp/B00D1VNENK?tag=at88-20 Needs a SIM card to make it a phone so that's not a problem. Snags?

Thanks
Robert

On 1/6/14 4:36 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

I'd try downloading the android emulator and testing them there, it's the least insane way to test different releases of android and different sizes of screens. And it's free for the time you spend figuring out how to make it work. I believe the release packages will give you a browser and the means to install browsers from Google/Play, though I can't say I ever tried.

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd like to test/access websites on an Android phone over my own wifi (Airport Extreme). I don't need a dataplan nor phone service for it. Does anyone have any good suggestions for an economical option and are there any technical issues?

Thanks
Robert C

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cody dooderson

Re: Android Phone Testing

I have used a samsung s2 phone on wifi quite a bit, It works fine, It did almost everything. Debugging websites can be a tricky on an android. Although, There might be some newer tricks for that, like https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging.

Cody Smith

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Roger,
Not sure an emulator is a good approach - documentation also makes it look like a sledgehammer since I'm not into Android app development. And if I see a bug is it me, the emulated browser or the emulator?

Apparently, for $110 I can get an unlocked ZTE from Amazon see http://www.amazon.com/ZTE-V956-MSM8225Q-1-2GHz-Android/dp/B00D1VNENK?tag=at88-20 Needs a SIM card to make it a phone so that's not a problem. Snags?

Thanks
Robert
On 1/6/14 4:36 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
I'd try downloading the android emulator and testing them there, it's the least insane way to test different releases of android and different sizes of screens. And it's free for the time you spend figuring out how to make it work. I believe the release packages will give you a browser and the means to install browsers from Google/Play, though I can't say I ever tried.

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd like to test/access websites on an Android phone over my own wifi (Airport Extreme). I don't need a dataplan nor phone service for it. Does anyone have any good suggestions for an economical option and are there any technical issues?

Thanks
Robert C

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Robert J. Cordingley

Re: Android Phone Testing

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Update
FWIW: so my ZTE non-phone Android (no data plan, no SIM cards) showed up
(from Singapore) yesterday allowing me to access web sites over my Wi-Fi
and in a short time I'm able to debug remotely in Chrome browsers (MBP
to ZTE). The built in browser behaves not so well.

Robert C

On 1/6/14 10:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
> Apparently, for $110 I can get an unlocked ZTE from Amazon see
> http://www.amazon.com/ZTE-V956-MSM8225Q-1-2GHz-Android/dp/B00D1VNENK?tag=at88-20
> Needs a SIM card to make it a phone so that's not a problem. Snags?

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