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[TUT] Send app data to a web spreadsheet (Google Sheets)

In Intermediate, Tutorial By blundell On 2016-01-312016-01-31

Have you ever had a spreadsheet and thought it’d be really good if I could get data into this from a mobile app. What a great idea, next comes the thought that this is actually…

[TUT] Mocking shared preferences to test in isolation

In Intermediate, Tutorial By blundell On 2015-12-292015-12-29

Below is an excerpt from my book “Learning Android Application Testing” that explains how you can write tests that interact with the Android system using files, databases or shared preferences without corrupting or being affected…

Use the latest version of any library with Android Studio & Gradle

In Beginner By blundell On 2015-06-212015-06-23

Isn’t it annoying whenever you want to add a new dependency to your project you have to know the exact version to add, not any more! This ‘hack’ makes use of the Gradle + syntax…

Enchant your users, without boring them with repetition – Animations

In Intermediate, Reference By blundell On 2015-06-212015-06-21

I hope you know the Android Design Principles, if not shh quick read them here. There is also a great talk on the principles from Google IO, so if you prefer video click this. Here…

[TUT] Migrating to AdMob in Google Play Services from AdMob SDK jar

In Intermediate, Tutorial By blundell On 2014-08-022014-08-03

Google have announced AdMob will now be available from with the Google Play Services library. The issue being they are stopping delivering ads to the AdMob sdk jar from August 2014. I describe here some…

[TUT] Android Gradle App with Espresso Instrumentation tests

In Beginner, Tutorial By blundell On 2014-07-19

This tutorial will show you the skeleton of an Android application that uses the Gradle build system and runs Espresso Instrumentation tests on Android classes. This follows on from my tutorials about Robolectric JUnit tests…