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 [...]

Posted at 8pm on 2/17/12 | no comments; | read on

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 [...]

Posted at 8pm on 1/25/12 | no comments; | read on

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Hi. My name is Justin Schultz and I’m a software engineer and entrepreneur in San Francisco. I’m currently working at Breezy, where I’m building our Android application and other cool things.