Using the Eclipse Android plugin
So, you’ve installed the Eclipse Android plugin, and are hacking happily away on the next revolutionary app that will make you win the contest and more… But for some reason all you get when running your Android app is the home screen. Your application won’t run anymore!
Unless you have errors in your code, you might want to try killing the Android Debug Bridge, it seems that it has problems from time to time. Do this from the command line:
$ adb kill-server
This will stop the Android Debug Bridge, and when you start an Android app the next time, it will restart.
Another tip: there’s no need to restart the Android Emulator every time you want to test changes in your app, just run it and it’ll be pushed out to the emulator. If you run the command above, though, you will have to quit the emulator to get everything to run smoothly…
Happy hacking!