I have been writing android-apps for over more than 8 months now. Finally, I got hold of my first android smart-phone, LG-Optimus One (Model name P500). The following were the steps I had to perform in order to get this phone ready for Android development.
Installing USB driver:
By default, this phone will not be detected over USB, as windows (Win7 32b) failed to find the USB driver for this device. Google search suggested that P500 USB driver needs to be manually installed. To do that, just go to the following link: http://www.lgforum.com/resources/ and select the 'LGAndroidDriver_Ver_1.0_All.exe' executable (about 9.4MB). Then run this exe in order to install the USB driver. Wallah! You're done!
Enabling USB debugging:
Again, by default, USB debugging will be disabled on this phone. (Makes perfect sense as this feature is for development only) In order to enable just select the Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging check-box. Now connect the USB cable. After this, open a command-prompt and then type adb devices. You'll see something like this:
> adb devices
List of devices attached
****************** device
****************** device
You're done! Now, you should be able to run an application (assuming android:debuggable is set true in the app's AndroidManifest.xml) and see the log messages through 'ddms'.
Happy coding!
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