eBOOK: Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours

Publisher: Sams, 2010 | ISBN: 0321673352 | 475pages | PDF | 17.2MB

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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful applications for the world’s first complete, open, and free mobile platform: Android. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll build a fully-featured Android application from the ground up and master the skills you need to design, develop, test, and publish powerful applications. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Android development tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to…

* Develop Android applications quickly and successfully with Java
* Master Google’s Android SDK and development tools
* Leverage the Eclipse programming environment to develop Android projects
* Understand the Android application lifecycle
* Build effective, user-friendly user interfaces
* Retrieve, store, and work with application data
* Develop powerful network applications
* Add popular social features and location-based services to your applications
* Take advantage of Android device hardware like the camera
* Internationalize, test, and publish your Android applications

eBook: Learning Android Application Testing

eBook: Learning Android Application Testing (2015) 

Pdf, Epub & Mobi

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account (April 30, 2015)
Language: English 

ISBN-10: 1784395331
ISBN-13: 978-1784395339
Improve your Android applications through intensive testing and debugging

About This Book

Focus on Android instrumentation testing to ensure full application coverage
Apply testing techniques and utilize tools to improve Android application development
Build intensively tested and bug free Android applications
Who This Book Is For
If you are an Android developer looking to test your applications or optimize your application development process, then this book is for you. No previous experience in application testing is required.


What You Will Learn

Apply testing techniques and utilize tools to improve Android application development
Get to grips with the nuances of testing on Android, including how to architect an application to facilitate better testing
Explore the Android instrumentation testing framework to optimize your activities, services, content providers, and usage of other Android components
Understand different development methodologies including Test-driven Development and Behavior-driven Development
Apply the continuous integration technique for ultimate application quality control
Improve application performance by analyzing the results returned from performance tests
Expose your application to a wide range of conditions and configurations to simulate real-life network conditions and detect problems in the application
Explore further tools to improve application quality such as micro benchmarks and code coverage


In Detail

This book is a practical introduction to readily available techniques, frameworks, and tools to thoroughly test your Android applications and improve project development.

You will learn the Java testing framework, how to create a test case and debug it. Next, you'll be walked through using the Android SDK to test using the ActivityTestCase and ActivityUnitTest classes as well as discussing popular testing libraries. Through examples you will test files, databases, ContentProviders, exceptions, services, and test your app using Espresso. You will discover how to manage your Android testing environment using Android emulators, deep dive into how adb and the emulator can super charge your testing automation, and also test user interactions with monkeyrunner. You will be guided through different testing methodologies including Test-driven Development and Behavior-driven Development and will learn how to perform Unit and Functional testing applying them to your Android projects. You will also use continuous integration techniques for ultimate application quality control using Gradle and Jenkins.

By the end of the book, you'll be looking through alternative testing tactics including Fest and Spoon to build upon and expand your Android testing range and finesse.