Android Testing DSL Reprise

Image via Wikipedia I did some hacking yesterday with Calculon in a attempt to see if it could be extended similar to robotium. Not possible, robotium is the best option..sorry MK(Calculon developer). Thus, we have a IDE plugin or build that runs all the tests at one time and completes a code coverage report along [...]

AndCooperANT Alpha release

AndCooperANT alpha release supporting ant build of regular android java projects, javadoc generation with UML diagrams, js javadoc generation for those using webkit, proguard obfuscation, android library projects, android jar library projects,  and android test projects.  Its alpha as I have not finished docs on how to customize javadoc look, code quality reports look, js [...]

Secrets of the Android Dev Ninjas

You have to remember that Android is a new platform so while some interesting stuff is being built, the documents are far from being updated. Take for instance the AAPT tool.  Did you knbow you can do this with the AAPT tool: 1. Get the proguard config file to use by using the -G aapt [...]

Android Code Best Practices and Teaching Java

Image via Wikipedia I guess I have a set of stupid questions, stupid as in I should have asked them sooner. These questions concern Android Code Best practices. If you look at either Android Source code for Android default applications or for example the ReplicaIsland Game you see certain patterns. One, hard to encapsulate and [...]

Logging the Android Way

In Android Java Applications we use a logging system to record log events including errors, debugging, etc. Log levels are: Verbose 2 Debug 3 Info 4 Warn 5 Error 6 Assert 7 The default log level set by the Android OS is 4 and above. Its the reverse for the levels of detail in that [...]

Useful Tools

Good morning and welcome to the beginning of the Android ‘Land-grab’. Some useful tools: 1. OpenNCF has published their sdk for andorid and an android add on at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-nfc/files/ 2. The AppInventor site went live: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ Its a visual programming tool to develop android applications. 3. OpenFrameworks has released an android version for NDK development: [...]

Android Code Samples Complaint

Like I never complain, right? While I appreciate the hard work every Android OS contributor has put in thus far some of the android code samples leave a lot to be desired. Code style mess-ups like if statements without brackets, parameters not finalized, etc. Still using the old test sub-folder in project instead of separate [...]

Android Development At Agile Speeds

One of the obstacles lately that I have run into is how do you describe an Android Agile Enabler Build System such as AndCooper. Usually, i am communicating with managerial people that already have some exposure to such code review items as unit/mock test code coverage, code comment coverage, code correctness measurements, and etc. Thus, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]