simpligility technologies inc. – helping you towards simplicity and agility
Since the fireside chats I organized for AnDevCon earlier this year were a roaring success, we are doing it again with some other interesting topics and bigger, better venue and support. If you are going to be at AnDevCon II, this is a must-be-there event. And even if you are not a full paying conference attendee you will be able to get in for free! Better find out more details so read on..
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Despite being considered immature and/or a waste of time by many, automated testing of Android applicationis possible. Arguably it should be in the repertoire of any serious Android developer, but today I am not going to delve into this discussion and talk about Robotium, Robolectric and so on. I am just going to show you how it just got a lot easier .
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I am at OSCON Java 2011 and just finished presenting about Android open source development tools covering the supplied default tools in the SDK and going way beyond covering libraries and tools for all sorts of aspects of Android application development. With just under 30 people in the audience I went through a whirlwind tour of Android IDE’s, development tools, suitable Java and Android libraries and a lot more.
The slides are available for download (smaller file) and should give you great resource to dig deeper since all links are right there and active. Following up on just a few of the ideas will hopefully make you a more productive Android developer and inspire you to participate and join open source Android activities.
Enjoy and let me know if they are useful for you
manfred
Update: Added a short version of the presentation that removes the slides for the transitions as requested by @shawnlauzon
OSCON has been long been one of THE places the open source community comes together. This year OReilly is hosting a special OSCON Java conference in parallel for the large open source Java community. And for me this is going to be the first year at OSCON and I will be presenting too. I will bring a bit of Android to the conference…
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How time flies! I am so busy working on my clients Android application and the book about the Hudson continuous integration server that my blogging got a bit neglected. In the frenzy I did manage to work on a whole bunch of pull requests for the Maven Android Plugins upcoming releases and get involved again in AnDevCon. Yeah.. AnDevCon was a great conference earlier this year and my feedback is on the site for the upcoming AnDevCon 2 in November. And I will be there again. But let’s start with more from AnDevCon 1.
Continue reading ‘AnDevCon feedback and outlook’
Last night I presented at the Vancouver Island JUG about Android development. The meeting was well attended with about 20 attendees and everybody learned about things like the activity life cycle, layout files, resources and many more things. The presentation file is available for download just in case you need to look something up or you could not attend.
After a great start on Monday and Tuesday AnDevCon really got started for me with doing my presentations. Guess how I went?
Continue reading ‘AnDevCon 2011 in hindsight – Part 2′
It was just a few days before the speaker proposal submit deadline that I found out about the AnDevCon Anroid Developer Conference and luckily my proposal got accepted. In the last those three days I met an incredible amount of people, put a lot of faces to contacts I already know or know of via twitter, blogs and more and also learned a whole lot of new stuff. Not to mention that it was very inspiring on a technical level and beyond and there are now a lot of more things on my todo and want to look at list 
Continue reading ‘AnDevCon 2011 in hindsight – Part 1′
No matter if you were able to attend my presentation at AnDevCon 2011 or not, here are the presentation files for all of you to enjoy:
Taking Advantage of Apache Maven for Android Development
Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Continuous Builds for Android Development
Now that the static library for Fragments support down to Android 1.6 is available as part of the SDK download, I have updated the Maven Android SDK Deployer to push the jar into your Maven repository so you can use it as part of your Android project built with the great Maven Android Plugin.
Check out the details on the documentation for the deployer and hopefully see you at AnDevCon next week.
