Looks like next week I may be signing an android developer book author contract. Probably Android3d with a follow up book on either Android NDK or Agile Android Patterns. Should be fun.
Archive for January, 2011
Android TDD Build Tool
Posted: January 14, 2011 in Android, JavaTags: Behavior Driven Development, Build Management, Emulator, Java, Test-driven development, Unit testing
This is not the tool itself but the Gradle build GUI showing the tool itself. Because the gradle build lifecycle is tdd based we get that as a foundation and I am just integrating some tools on top of the gradle android plugin such as code analysis tools robolectric, etc. How much dev time are [...]
For those using or moving towards using Groovy’s Gradle for builds, the Gradle-Android plugin has been updated to Gingerbread SDK by the project lead. Its gradle requirement is Gradle 0.9.1.
Agile Android-In-Anger
Posted: January 4, 2011 in Android, JavaTags: Agile software development, Dalvik (software), Dalvik VM, Emulator, Java Virtual Machine, Test-driven development, Unit testing
There is a tradition in Java when trying to teach a group to relearn coding patterns or best practices to use the -In-Anger in the title. There are two ways essentially, one is to mock everything so as to be able to use TDD via Junit4 testing in a JVM outside of the Android emulator [...]
