Switch license

[cdoty]

Is it possible to switch a license from Android to Linux? It could be a nice option for Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone development.

I’ve tried for the better part of a year to get debugging working reliably under VisualGDB. (Problems with too many Apps on the device, freezing while waiting for GDB, not able to find symbols, etc.)

Yesterday, after getting the Ouya, I found NVidia’s Tegra development pack. This offers problem free building and debugging on any Android device. The only limitation is that it requires the Pro Version of Visual Studio.

[support]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the feedback. The issues you mentioned indeed take place when debugging Android apps, however they are not specific to VisualGDB. In fact, those are the bugs of the Android NDK and SDK and unlike other tools like NVidia’s pack, VisualGDB provides diagnostics and workarounds for them (e.g. breakpoint diagnostics, automatic detection of cases like ‘too many apps’, etc.) and we do offer help for them with our support. It is likely that a clean image of Ouya will work more reliably with NVidia’s tool than an arbitrary Android device with many apps with VisualGDB, but the reason is not that VisualGDB is less reliable, but rather that Android tools themselves exhibit problems when it comes to bigger setups. Another limitation of Nvidia’s tool is that is only works for NVidia chipsets, while VisualGDB supports all of them. Finally, VisualGDB provides numerous ways to customize building and debugging and tweak the underlying tools in many different ways.

Regarding the license switch, we could offer you an upgrade to Ultimate edition that combines the features of Linux, Android and Custom editions. Please contact sales@sysprogs.com to get a quote.

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