The DDMS Perspective

DDMS stands for Dalvik Debug Monitor Server. This perspective gives you insight into the applications that are running on the emulator or device, allowing you to watch threads and memory, as well as gather statistics as the applications run. Figure 11–2. shows how it might look on your workstation. Although we'll use the term device for the remainder of this section, we mean device or emulator.

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Figure 11–2. The DDMS perspective

In the upper-left corner of Figure 11–2, notice the Devices view. This will show you all devices connected to your workstation (you can have more than one device or emulator connected simultaneously) ...

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