Android TDD Build Tool

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 [...]

Agile Android-In-Anger

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 [...]

Android Agile Patterns

You might be wondering why I would spend so much time on integrating things via an ANT or Gradle build tool. The whole idea was to be able to do full application testing from beginning to end similar to the way OEMs do framework testing. In other words the developer should be able to run [...]

TDD Hardships on Andorid

You would think that implementing Agile-TDD at the build system level for Android Application Development would b the hard part. Not that is not challenging. The hard part seems to get companies and firms to believe that if its implemented right and executed that you have white box QA testing using  this build system framework [...]

How To Start Android Emulator using ANT

To start the Android Emulator and proceed to the next ant task, this should work: It should work. Now this is the emulator in the released SDK as when you build the sdk/emulator from source its creating its own AVD and configuration file entry to use that avd. But for just the released SDK/emulator it [...]