Debug port -1 when run on android emulator

[iamkarlson]

Hello, I can't run debugger on android emulator because script stuck here

\lib\common\mobile\android\android-device.js:214
var dbgPort = this.startAndGetPort(packageName).wait();

After wait dbgPort geting -1

[iamkarlson]

I continued my investigation and I've found cause of port -1.
File envDebug.out not exist in files directory. What am I doing wrong?

[rosen-vladimirov]

Hi @iamkarlson
Please excuse us for the late reply. Can you try running the command with --log trace, for example
tns debug android --start --log trace
If you can send us the output, we'll investigate it on our side. Also what is the android version of your device/emulator image?

[iamkarlson]

Yes, sure. You can find it here http://pastebin.com/tDf836qd

Android version is 4.2, but I also tried to run on 5.0 image and intel/arm platforms

[slavchev]

It seems that the CLI cannot establish connection with your device/emulator. Currently, the CLI has hard-coded timeout set to 30 seconds which sometimes is not enough. I logged an issue here #375.

If you feel adventurous, you can change the timeout to, say, 60 seconds. From your logs I assume that you are running on Windows box, so you can edit %localappdata%\..\Roaming\npm\node_modules\nativescript\lib\common\mobile\android\android-device.js file (the exact location may be machine specific). You can search for for (var i = 0; i < 30; i++) and replace it with for (var i = 0; i < 60; i++) to increase the timeout to 60 seconds.

EDIT: Also make sure that your device/emulator has external storage (sdcard) attached.

[iamkarlson]

Oh, no. My emulator doesn't have attached sdcard, but my phone does. And on my phone debugger are working fine. Could please find out way to debug apps without mounted sdcard?

[slavchev]

We are already researching other options. I'll close our internal issue and make a public one so everybody can monitor its status.

[dtopuzov]

Closing this issue, see #661