Android Developer Tutorials
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…
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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…
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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…
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This is a tutorial request to show a simple activity structure, where the user is prompted either to fill out a form, or if they have already done so in the past then continue to…
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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…
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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…
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This tutorial will show you the skeleton of an Android application that uses the Gradle build system and runs Robolectric JUnit tests on Android classes. This follows on from my tutorial about JVM JUnit tests,…
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