Welcome to the Treehouse Community
Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.
Looking to learn something new?
Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.
Start your free trial
Jake barnly
177 PointsRunning emulator and running on tablet device
My emulator works just fine with no errors for the Ribbit app but when I run it on my tablet device to take a picture it does not allow me to snap a picture. Can it not run on a tablet device?
5 Answers
Harry James
14,780 PointsThat'd odd. The app should function perfectly fine on a tablet no matter what stage you're up to (The later stages are just designing it to look better on a tablet).
Do you get any errors and have you tried closing and re-opening the emulator?
Jake barnly
177 PointsYeah I am using my actual device and it won't access the camera to take the picture. It stops down and says it has stopped working. I tried to do it on the Tablet emulator and it says that it can't access the storage BUT the phone emulator works fine. Can you explain this to me please?
Jake barnly
177 PointsActual device being an android tablet. I can't test it out on my crystal sharp phone because there is not a driver for it out for windows yet.
Harry James
14,780 PointsSomething's not right if it can't access the storage...
Try resetting the adb whilst you have the emulator disabled and see how that goes.
You can follow this gif here or follow these instructions: Open up the Perspectives menu (On the top right next to Java) >> Click on DDMS and press OK >> Under Devices, click on the down arrow >> Press Reset adb.
If you're still having issues, I would then highly recommend using an alternate emulator like Genymotion. It's free and a lot faster! Even if you didn't have this issue, I would still recommend it!
Jake barnly
177 PointsI do not have the DDMS option on the upper right of my IDE
Harry James
14,780 PointsThe instructions or the gif (Easier to see) will show you how to add it :)
Jake barnly
177 PointsI did what the app said, Harry but unfortunately it did not work.
Harry James
14,780 PointsIn that case, I would resort to the Genymotion Emulator. It's simple to install and Ben talks about it a bit in the Android Tools course.