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Learning Android Application Development

By : Raimon Ràfols Montane, Laurence Dawson
Book Image

Learning Android Application Development

By: Raimon Ràfols Montane, Laurence Dawson

Overview of this book

The mobile app market is huge. But where do you start? And how you can deliver something that takes Google Play by storm? This guide is the perfect route into Android app development – while it’s easy for new apps to sink without a trace, we’ll give you the best chance of success with practical and actionable guidance that will unlock your creativity and help you put the principles of Android development into practice. From the fundamentals and getting your project started to publishing your app to a huge market of potential customers, follow this guide to become a confident, creative and reliable mobile developer. Get to grips with new components in Android 7 such as RecyclerView, and find out how to take advantage of automated testing, and, of course, much, much more. What are you waiting for? There’s never been a better time – or a better way – to get into Android app development.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Android Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Putting it all together


Let's add some more functionality to our calculator example. For instance, let's add a login screen and test the whole functionality:

In this case, when we provide the correct login and password details, we will proceed to the next screen, to our calculator. What we want to test is whether the transition works and how we can continue testing on multiple activities.

Imagine we have implemented the following checks on our application logic to check whether an e-mail ID and password are valid (although that does not necessarily mean they are correct):

We can add many unit tests to these methods, but let's just add few of them and focus on UI tests:

With regard to UI tests, first of all let's add some simple tests that will validate that an error is shown if either the username or password is invalid.

When we press the login button, we check for the validity and then for the correctness of the username and password; if something goes wrong, we show an error.

To show...