Posts Tagged ‘development’

Android SDK Updater: SSL Peer Shut Down Incorrectly

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

I spent a lot of Saturday messing around trying to update my Android SDK and kept getting the error SSL Peer Shut Down Incorrectly just as the download seemed to be about to complete

I was using the eclipse AVD and SDK manager to upgrade, and since it wasn’t working I went looking for an alternative.

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Work Around for ADB Drivers in x64 Windows XP

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

My final year project is a ticket booking system for a mobile device, and I’ve chosen to target Android and develop an application for my HTC Hero.

I followed the set up instructions in my copy of Android Application Development (which are pretty much the same as the instructions on the Android Dev site), but when I tried to run a simple Hello World type app on my handset I had problems.

I would plug my phone in, as per the instructions, but it wouldn’t be detected. Eclipse is supposed to recognise my phone as valid build target and be able to install and run the app on my phone via USB, but it didn’t.

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