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Before you start

To run the demo you need to install the following:

  • Visual COBOL for Eclipse for Windows, R4 Update 2.
  • AndroidForCommunity AddPack – downloadable from SupportLine (Visual COBOL AddPacks section).
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  • The Android SDK (available from Google, here)
  • The Android Developer Tools (ADT) for Eclipse. Follow the instructions here.

Once you have all these installed, you need to install at least one Android platform in your SDK – the one you need to run the demo is for API Level 8. To do this, open the Android SDK Manager, and download the Android 2.2 (API 8) SDK Platform.  The SDK manager shows the SDK Platform for all the Android APIs released so far, but by default the only platform actually downloaded will be the latest one. Select Android 2.2 (API 8) SDK Platform and Samples, and click the Install Packages button.

You also need to create a new Android emulator (or Android Virtual Device). If you haven’t used the Android SDK before, Google’s Hello World tutorial will take you through these steps.

Your emulator should target API level 8 or later to work with the COBOL Android Demo – level 8 is the API supported by the majority of Android devices in use at the time of writing. Tablet devices running Honeycomb are at API level 11. Android API levels are always backwards compatible – level 8 is the minimum API required to run this demo so higher levels should also work, but we can’t guarantee this as we haven’t tried them all.

On this ....

Before you start

To run the demo you need to install the following:

  • Visual COBOL for Eclipse for Windows, R4 Update 2.
  • AndroidForCommunity AddPack – downloadable from SupportLine (Visual COBOL AddPacks section).
  • No more There In SupportLine.....Can you help me please ????
  • The Android SDK (available from Google, here)
  • The Android Developer Tools (ADT) for Eclipse. Follow the instructions here.

Once you have all these installed, you need to install at least one Android platform in your SDK – the one you need to run the demo is for API Level 8. To do this, open the Android SDK Manager, and download the Android 2.2 (API 8) SDK Platform.  The SDK manager shows the SDK Platform for all the Android APIs released so far, but by default the only platform actually downloaded will be the latest one. Select Android 2.2 (API 8) SDK Platform and Samples, and click the Install Packages button.

You also need to create a new Android emulator (or Android Virtual Device). If you haven’t used the Android SDK before, Google’s Hello World tutorial will take you through these steps.

Your emulator should target API level 8 or later to work with the COBOL Android Demo – level 8 is the API supported by the majority of Android devices in use at the time of writing. Tablet devices running Honeycomb are at API level 11. Android API levels are always backwards compatible – level 8 is the minimum API required to run this demo so higher levels should also work, but we can’t guarantee this as we haven’t tried them all.

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On this ....

Before you start

To run the demo you need to install the following:

  • Visual COBOL for Eclipse for Windows, R4 Update 2.
  • AndroidForCommunity AddPack – downloadable from SupportLine (Visual COBOL AddPacks section).
  • No more There In SupportLine.....Can you help me please ????
  • The Android SDK (available from Google, here)
  • The Android Developer Tools (ADT) for Eclipse. Follow the instructions here.

Once you have all these installed, you need to install at least one Android platform in your SDK – the one you need to run the demo is for API Level 8. To do this, open the Android SDK Manager, and download the Android 2.2 (API 8) SDK Platform.  The SDK manager shows the SDK Platform for all the Android APIs released so far, but by default the only platform actually downloaded will be the latest one. Select Android 2.2 (API 8) SDK Platform and Samples, and click the Install Packages button.

You also need to create a new Android emulator (or Android Virtual Device). If you haven’t used the Android SDK before, Google’s Hello World tutorial will take you through these steps.

Your emulator should target API level 8 or later to work with the COBOL Android Demo – level 8 is the API supported by the majority of Android devices in use at the time of writing. Tablet devices running Honeycomb are at API level 11. Android API levels are always backwards compatible – level 8 is the minimum API required to run this demo so higher levels should also work, but we can’t guarantee this as we haven’t tried them all.

As the note states the Visual COBOL Android demo addpack was made available for the Visual COBOL for Eclipse for Windows, R4 Update 2 product which is by now quite old.

Unfortunately we have not updated the demo since this first version was released and it is no longer available for download.

I will take a look at the older demo and check it against the latest Visual COBOL 2.2 release to see if it is still functional and if it is I will make it available for download once again.

The Visual COBOL for Eclipse product has evolved quite a bit since the R4 release so chances are it will no longer have the same limitations that were posted for the original demo.

Thanks for your patience...

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