Android Application Development with Maven

Patroklos Papapetrou, Jonathan LALOU

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781783986101
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Application Development
• Index: Computer Science

Android Application Development with Maven

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Android Application Development with Maven

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About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Beginning with the Basics

Installing Java

Download and Install Apache Maven

Android SDK

Android development tools

Android SDK standalone

Creation of a new project

Integration with IDE

Eclipse

Set up and integration of Maven and Android SDK

Creation of a project in Eclipse

IntelliJ IDEA / Android Studio

Set up and integration of Maven and Android SDK

Specific to Android Studio

Specific to IntelliJ IDEA

Import of project

Specific to Android Studio

Specific to IntelliJ IDEA

NetBeans

Set up and integration of Maven and Android SDK

Import a project

Summary

2. Starting the Development Phase

Reminders about Android projects

Creating an AVD

With the GUI

In-command line

Develop and Build

Cleaning

Generating sources

Build

Emulator

Start

Stop

Stop all

Deploy

Undeploy

Architecture principles

Standalone application

Android application within an n-tier architecture

Android with dependencies on SDK Add-ons

Summary

3. Unit Testing

Effectively testing Android applications

Running typical unit tests

Unit testing of activities

Creating a dedicated unit testing module

Running Android unit tests with Maven

Real unit testing with Robolectric

Configuring Robolectric with Maven

Running Robolectric unit tests

Best approach

Measuring test coverage

JaCoCo

Cobertura

Summary

4. Integration Testing

Fundamentals of instrumentation testing

Running Android instrumentation tests

Creating a dedicated integration testing module

Writing a simple instrumentation activity test

Grabbing screenshots with Spoon

Configuring Spoon with Maven

Running Spoon and viewing the reports

Working with Robotium

UI Tests made easy with Selendroid

Configuring Selendroid

Writing Selendroid UI Tests for Maven native applications

Other integration testing tools

Summary

5. Android Flavors

Problem statement

Introducing Maven profiles

Creating build profiles

Separation by packaging

Separation by library

Summary

6. Release Life Cycle and Continuous Integration

Optimizing an Android package

Signing an application

Obfuscating the code

Aligning and zipping uncompressed data

Transforming the package in shippable form

Releasing a new version

Perform a release without deployment to repository

Deploying to a local repository

CI and automation best practices

Summary

7. Other Tools and Plugins

Managing Android code quality

A short history about quality in Android

Analyzing with Lint using Maven

Unleashing the power of SonarQube

Boost development speed with GenyMotion

Deploying our example to a GenyMotion emulator

Summary

Index

Android Application Development with Maven

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Credits

Authors

Patroklos Papapetrou

Jonathan LALOU

Reviewers

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David Bernard

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About the Authors

Patroklos Papapetrou is a software architect addicted to software quality and an agile team leader with more than 15 years of experience in software engineering. His expertise lies in Android and Java development. He believes and invests in people and team spirit, seeking quality excellence. He's one of the authors of the book SonarQube in Action, Manning Publications and his next writing attempt will be The Art of Software Gardening. He treats software systems like flowers; that's why he prefers to call himself a software gardener.

He's also an occasional speaker, conducting talks about clean code, Android development, code quality, and software gardening.

I'd like to thank my loving and beautiful wife, Anna, for her patience all these months, especially during the weekends. Without her encouragement, I wouldn't have managed to finish my part of the book. Thanks to my sons, Panagiotis (age 6) and Charis (4-years old), who understood that sometimes, daddy couldn't play with them or go to the park. You can have me back now! Thanks to our families for their patience as well and for sometimes watching the kids to let me work on the book.

Jonathan LALOU is an engineer fascinated by new technologies, computer sciences, and the digital world since his childhood. A graduate of the Ecole des Mines—one of the best French polytechnic institutes—Jonathan has more than 14 years of experience in Java and the JEE ecosystem.

Jonathan has worked for several global companies and financial institutions, such as Syred, Philips, Sungard, Ixis CIB, BNP Paribas, and Amundi AM. He has strong ties, daily contacts, and frequent trips in Western Europe, Northern America, Judea, and emerging Asia. During his career, Jonathan has successfully climbed many levels: developer, architect, Scrum master, team leader, and project manager.

Now, Jonathan is CTO at SayaSoft (http://www.sayasoft.fr), a digital company focused on very high value added projects he founded with two partners. SayaSoft brings Java environment, migration of small and large organizations to agility, and Android development to a new level. SayaSoft's customers are ensured to get high-quality releases and quick ROI.

Jonathan's skills include a wide range of technologies and frameworks, such as Spring, JPA/Hibernate, GWT, Mule ESB, JSF/PrimeFaces, Groovy, Android, EJB, JMS, application servers, agile methods, and, of course, Apache Maven.

Jonathan also authored Apache M...

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