4. Pros
developed by Google (Android tools team)
Gets all the latest SDK improvements
Generated from Eclipse (ADT)
Cons
No dependency management ( needs Ivy)
Not trivial to contribute (or debug)
Ant…
5. founded by JAYWAY
developed by the community
Hosted on github – easy to contribute/debug
Easy to setup
Dependency management
Jars depend on other jars with versions
Supports
package (apk/apklib), jar sign, zipalign, proguark,
native, scala and more
Runs tests
start emulator prior to running test
6. Use Maven profiles to distinguish dev from release build
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8. Based on Google Guice
Simplify your code make it more readable
Remove boilerplate
PLUS: You get the power of dependency
injection (Guice)
Automatic Injection
Loose coupling
Testing with Mocks
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11. Re-usabale library by Square Inc.
Interesting stuff
RestAdapter – abstraction over HTTP for Android
▪ Create a Java interface for your services
ShakeDetector
QueueFile (for storing a Q on Android filesystem)
12. Does all the dirty HTTP work for you
All calls are Async
can be used from UI thread w/ callback
Built-in JSON support
Uses JdkProxy, Guice and Gson
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14. Lightweight ORM
Makes DB interaction more pleasant
Code more readable
Mature project
Good documentation + large community
Excellent support from the project owner
Grey Watson http://256.com/gray/
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19. Provides Android specific annotations to
make the code even more readable
Can be integrated with roboguice
Works by generating code during build
process
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23. Relatively new (4-6 month)
Backed up by commercial firm (Gorilla Logic)
Record your tests
Adjust playback speed
Add conditions
Generate JUnit from the recording
Tests can run as plain JUnit (it communicates
with the app inside emulator)
* very elegant solution for test recording
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26. Selenium like UI + Functional testing
framework
Runs on Emulator/Device
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28. You can run tests from IDE
No emulator
Fast
Enables TDD
No mocking framework needed
http://github.com/pivotal/robolectric
29. Run tests from IDE
Very fast
No emulator
Intercepts loading of Android classes –
rewriting their bodies to return null/0/false
Or forward calls to shadow classes
34. Library that submits crash reports (or
exceptions) to your
server / Google spreadsheet / email
Add logcat and memory usage to your report
Mature project
Used by lots of apps (incl. Facebook app)
OSS
35. Bug tracking for mobile
Realtime crash / bugs analytics
Search
Notify users when bug is fixed
Supports Proguard
Integrates with ACRA and JIRA
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37. Post crashes/bugs as tickets in JIRA
Still in development
Open source
Cool features
Get user feedback
Reply to user via comment on JIRA issue
Notify user the crash/bug he reported is fixed
and more…