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Some times it is convenient to add test activities to Android application which you are able to launch from application menu but should only be visible while developing. Manually removing those from AndroidManifest is one way but then you need to add them back if you want to use them again for testing. Unless you want to create a special test project for this use or create some build scripts, here is one way to keep them but hide them in the release build.
In your AndroidManifest, mark the activity as disabled:
<activity android:enabled="false" android:name=".TestIntentActivity"> </activity>
in your Application class or in your main activity, re-enable the activity if in development, e.g. based on applications debuggable flag:
int applicationFlags = getApplicationInfo().flags; boolean debuggable = ((applicationFlags & ApplicationInfo.FLAG_DEBUGGABLE) != 0); PackageManager pm = getPackageManager(); ComponentName testActivity = new ComponentName(this, TestIntentActivity.class); pm.setComponentEnabledSetting(testActivity, PackageManager.COMPONENT_ENABLED_STATE_ENABLED, PackageManager.DONT_KILL_APP);
Note that this requires that android:debuggable attribute is set according to the build type. The downside naturally is that the test activity is packaged into the release build but for a small scale project this might feasible.
A pilot implementation of Carhire SDK was released today to Android Market for limited audience. The SDK was implemented for Travel Agency Matkapörssi Oy and can be downloaded from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.matkaporssi.android.apps.carhire.
Kinetik Oy’s Carhire SDK is an Android car rental application that can be re-branded for any company. The SDK is backed by TravelJigsaw central reservation system. Read more here.
If you are using Netbeans with Maven to build Android library projects, you may have noticed that Netbeans does not detect classes inside an .apklib – thus making it difficult to auto-complete class names and generally marking all class references to the library project as error. Here is a quick but not the most elegant work-around to make Netbeans detect these classes:
In your library project, add an extra jar plugin with custom classifier (without the classifier, .jar is not build):
<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>jar</goal> </goals> <configuration> <classifier>classes</classifier> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin>
In the project depending on the library project add the dependency with provided -scope:
<dependency> <groupId>some.group.name</groupId> <artifactId>some-artifact-name</artifactId> <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <classifier>classes</classifier> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency>
This should be enough to make Netbeans happy and to detect classes inside your library project.
Android Developer site has extensive tutorials on testing Android applications with Eclipse but should you not be using Eclipse you may find the documentation somewhat lacking.
These comments and notes are based on the official guide found here: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/testing/testing_otheride.html and using Android SDK Tools Rev 15, Platform Tools Rev
As per the documentation:
Quick build and run with Ant
You can use Ant to run all the tests in your test project, using the target
run-tests, which is created automatically when you create a test project with theandroidtool.
This clearly does not work as the current targets are:
clean, debug, install, installd, installi, intallr, installt, instrument, release, test, uninstall
So to get tests running on a device/emulator, you need to:
After making modifications to your test code, you’ll need to package and install the test apk again, just saying ant test will only re-run the already installed test package.
Hope this helps to get more tests created.
