Inspecting and Improving UI Layouts With HierarchyViewer
HierarchyViewer is a visual tool that can be used to inspect your Android user interfaces and help you improve your layout designs and performance. It’s packaged with the Android SDK, and lives in the <android-sdk>/tools folder. To launch hierarchyviewer, simply open a terminal or command window and type hierarchyviewer. To open hierarchyviewer via Eclipse, select [...]
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Unit Testing Android Applications With Robolectric
Running unit tests on an Android emulator or device is slow! Building, deploying, and launching the application in an emulator often takes several minutes, and that’s painful. It’s downright unacceptable if you’re planning on running your unit-tests as part of a continuous-integration build process, because the build server will need to launch an emulator every [...]
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