Development for Android... Only the device you have?

[Calab]

Silly question, but I'm setting up to do some programming for my Android phone and I have a question.

I'm using Eclipse with the ADT plugin and all seems well. I have not yet generated an AVD (virtual device) file from my phone yet so I have no virtual devices to run on.

Can't these be downloaded or am I stuck being able to only develop for my specific model of phone?

How do I write apps for devices that I don't have?

[rdomloge]

You generate AVDs from the AVD manager. You select the phone type, memory card size, screen dimensions and SDK version and it creates you an AVD to run your apps on.

This way you can have multiple emulators running in multiple modes to test your app on.

Not sure what you mean about using your phone to generate an AVD from...?

[Calab]

My bad...

It looked like you needed to dump your firmware to a file for the emulator to function. Something like installing ROMs for the Palm emulator.

Now that I've looked at the AVD manager, it makes sense.

Thanks!