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I have been sifting through Chicago Android opportunities and wanted to share this little strange gem. I am keeping the firm name and person’s name undisclosed because it would somewhat be embarrassing to them but to say that this proves that the people who cannot code go into business management somewhat is an understatement. Basically, [...]
Its interesting to go on interviews to see if people really get testing or not and its role in the agile process. For example, the set of ant-rules files that is distributed with the android sdk has had annoying little mistakes in key areas such as the coverage target inn test_rules, etc for awhile. My [...]
My settings for the apiviz javadoc ant task in a gist. If you are not on windows than you know what to change already and you have to obviously change the link to the packagelist in the link offline to point to your sdk.dir/docs/reference. As you can the linkoffline will give the correct linking as [...]
Usually, a good portion of new android developers have trouble with Eclipse.ini settings as java VM settings have changed over the years and there is a mess of legacy and new settings. This gist of my eclipse.ini settings is for multi-core and tested on MS Vista 32-bit, AMD 2-cpu-core 2.6 GHZ, 4 gig ram, and [...]
I did find a code coverage tool that works with robolectric. Its called undercover and is hosted at googlecode. The dependencies and ant task directions are here.
Seems like everyone did not get why Google choose not to demo Social at Google IO this year. Obviously, part of it is that they do not want any other parts distracting it. But, the other part i believe is some focusing on what is coming for Android for rest of 2011. While we already [...]
Although refactoring features are already included in ADT and install sdk functionality might be appearing in ADT 11.0, you will rest of these adt-addons eclipse plugins useful to android development. The one I use right now is adding sources to the android container in my android projects.
So Wabash is this set of ant scripts that I have been working on to support BDD and test instrumentation and some beginning MonkeyRunner stuff. The last set of steps is to switch to using the DroidDoclet the same one used by the android project. This way I can combine different documents from child projects [...]
Several firms including PivotalLabs have advocated choosing TDD for android development. Thus, one has to ask what have they forgot to mention is part of the android platform that will force most developers the other way? Yes, TDD is faster if you execute the process as TDD..no that is not it. Android right now is [...]
