Android TestProject in parent project folder

Okay, time for some more eclipse tricks. Create new project, do not click finish yet!  Uncheck the default location and browser and select the parent project folder and in the address bar of project location type /test and you will see: Correction: Name Project ParentProjectNameTest, ADT plugin will show an extra project at workspace root(you [...]

Junit Test Runner for ANT

One of the founders of  Zutubi came up with extending the JUnit TestRunner used in Android to generate xml reports stored on the SD card that than can be pushed down to a desktop folder using an ant task. The blog post is here and github project page is here. Thus you can now get [...]

MotoDEV Studio4Android 1.0.2

On Dec 1st Moto released MotoDEVStduo4androd 1.0.2 updated to SDK 2.0. One improvement that might not have been talked about yet is being able to install rest of Eclipse IDe components as MotoDevStudio base starts with just Eclipse Java and some other parts. So first screen shot Team SVN and Git installed: As I go [...]

Gradle Task for Proguard

I use proguard settings specific to Android Java applications so change to fit your needs before using: Notice all I am doing is creating the proguard.pro file on-the-fly and than using that in my taskdef via the ANTBuilder.

Android Builds-Gradle Style

The main feature, one of them, of Groovy’s Gradle build framework  is that plug-ins will add task to the life-cycle. Life-cycle in this case is the build life-cycle. Since mobile java builds are different than enterprise java I have had to come up with my own build life cycle definition, which looks like this in [...]

Customizing MotoDEVStudio

One of my complaints has been that the underlying platform. Eclipse 3.4, uses ANT 1.0 which has a major bug. Unzip this into your plugins folder and take out the ANT 1.0 plugin folder in your MotoDEvVStudio for Android install. Now when you do soem tasks like declare the task library for JDepend it will [...]

Android-TDD Bug Fixes

The  java-tests.template having the class extend the wrong class for testing  bug 3350 looks to be apporved for a future SDk release. Hopfully, it is the android SDK 1.6 release. So no wits somewhat offical, I became an Android Project contributor.  Okay, soem more bug fixes to submit this weekend revolving aroudn ANT support of [...]

AndCooper Progress Towards 0.1

I am on the laste final stesp of adding VPP(Velocity Template Preprocessing for WebView html preprocessing and etc) and JavaPP(Java Preprocessing to handle same code base different SDK targets) and the final testing. One of the issues has been getting  to work right with non-Eclispe IDEs in the same easy manner. Why two preprocessors? VPP [...]

Eclipse Tools for Android

SAP has developed a memory porfiler for java applications that takes a java memory  dump, a hprof file a heap dump, and analyses that data both visually and otherwise to allow us to do queries of that data to analyze trends and change code. Earier this year they had open sourced this technology and donated [...]