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Android Architecture Components – Looking at Room and LiveData – Part 1

This week at Google I/O 2017, there were a lot of new announcements for the Android Platform. One of the announcements was the new architecture guidelines for Android! This is a welcome addition to the Android platform. Previously the Android team refrained from giving advice as to how you should structure your Android applications. For […]

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android testing

Introduction to Automated Android Testing – Part 6

In the previous 5 blog posts, we covered different aspects of building an Android app from scratch. We focused on including tests in the process. Here are the links to the previous posts: Post #1 – Why should we write tests? Post #2 – Set up your app for testing Post #3 – Creating API […]

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Introduction to Automated Android Testing – Part 5

In this series of blog posts, we are working through a sample app called Github User Search. Parts 1 – 4 covered why we should test, getting set up with testing, creating API calls and creating a presenter. Take a look at the previous posts as part 5 is a continuation of the series. In part […]

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Introduction to Automated Android Testing – Part 4

In this blog post series, we are working through an example Android app called Github User Search. In the previous blog posts, we took a look at setting up your app for testing, creating API calls and writing the first basic test for the API transformations. Read part 1, part 2 and part 3 first.

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Introduction to Automated Android Testing – Part 1

I’ve seen a lot of people confused and unsure about how to do tests in Android. In the past, it was very difficult to test Android apps and there wasn’t much direction. In this series, I am going to try make testing a bit easier for you. This first post is just to get you started with […]