What hardware devices do you test your Android apps on?

Question

The emulator that comes with ADK for use under Eclipse is fine for testing basic Android application functionality, but:

• it\'s not very performant
• it

Answer 1

For me test devices are sort of like pickup trucks: I'll make friends just to get access to their phones ;-)

Seriously, I do tap friends and family as resources. I'm a small shop and can't afford to buy a lot of test devices. Yet even with this limited pool of resources I've go the following devices available and it seems to have served me well:

1. Original Moto DROID (seems like such a dog now).
2. DROID Pro (broken screen but still good for testing).
3. Asus eTransformer
4. Samsung Galaxy Tab (7")
5. HTC Rezound (my personal phone--it rocks)
6. Samsung Charge (my wife's phone)
7. DROID X (son-in-law)
8. HTC-something I can't remember right now (daughter & son)
9. Amazon Kindle Fire (father).

So, as you can see, without spending a fortune I've got a pretty good set of test devices, not counting all the friends I press into service as beta-testers. With all those I really haven't had many problems with platform specific issues. I hear a lot of grumbling about fragmentation (perhaps mostly from iOS developers), but if you develop your app intelligently it isn't a huge issue.