{"id":102,"date":"2015-04-17T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/?p=102"},"modified":"2015-07-19T08:33:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T15:33:53","slug":"android-vs-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/tutorials\/android\/vs-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Debugging vs-android projects with VisualGDB"},"content":{"rendered":"

This tutorial explains how to debug native Android projects made with vs-android<\/strong> in Visual Studio<\/p>\n

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  1. First ensure that your vs-android<\/strong> project can be built properly. If you cannot make it work, please consider using VisualGDB Project wizard<\/a> instead. In this tutorial we will use the san-angeles project from the vs-android samples.<\/li>\n
  2. Download<\/a> the latest VisualGDB. If you are using custom installation, ensure that Android Edition is selected for installation:\"00-install\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Open Visual Studio, click at Android->Setup SDK\/NDK locations. Enter the locations of your Android tools or use the “Detect” buttons to try detecting them automatically:\"01-tools\"<\/a>If you want to debug your vs-android projects with F5, you need to enable this feature here by pressing “Add Support”.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Open your vs-android project (in this example we use the san-angeles<\/strong> sample). Open the AndroidManifest.xml <\/strong>file inside the AndroidApk folder and set the android:debuggable attribute to “true”:\n
     <application android:label=\"@string\/app_name\"\r\n              android:debuggable=\"true\">\r\n   <!-- Your activities are listed here -->\r\n<\/application><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  5. In this tutorial we set a breakpoint inside the  drawGLObject()<\/strong> function. You can set breakpoints anywhere in the code before and during debugging, just like in normal Visual Studio projects.<\/li>\n
  6. Select Android->Debug Android App in Visual Studio:\"02-debugapp\"<\/a>If the debug commands are not displayed, please select your project as startup project in the solution.
    \nImportant note:<\/strong> VisualGDB 5.0+ supports clang-based IntelliSense for vs-android projects. Read more in     this tutorial<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. If you encounter a message about inconsistent signature, please use the Android->Remove App from device command.<\/li>\n
  8. If you are debugging the project for the first time, VisualGDB will detect that gdbserver is missing and suggest auto-installing it. Please click “yes”, then rebuild your project with Build->Rebuild Solution<\/strong>. \"03-gdbserver\"<\/a>If you do not rebuild the solution, gdbserver will not be put inside the apk file and debugging won’t be possible.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Click Android->Debug Android App again. VisualGDB will begin deploying your project and preparing the debugging session:\"05-launching\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. If you have previously set a breakpoint at a location that gets executed, your breakpoint will be triggered:\"06-debugging\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Go to Project Properties, select Debugging page and ensure that you have VisualGDB Android Debugger selected:\"07-defaultdbg\"<\/a>Note that the Android Debugger won’t appear in the list unless you enable it from the Setup NDK\/SDK locations dialog.<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. You can configure VisualGDB-specific settings for your vs-android projects by right-clicking on the project and selecting VisualGDB Project Properties:\"08-vgdbsettings\"<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Congratulations! You can now debug your app. You can also setup Visual Studio to use the original NDK build system by  following this tutorial<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n
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