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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By : Miloš Vasić
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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By: Miloš Vasić

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with different levels of knowledge. As a language, it helps developers build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way. This book begins by giving you a strong grasp of Kotlin's features in the context of Android development and its APIs. Moving on, you'll take steps towards building stunning applications for Android. The book will show you how to set up the environment, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the applications covered in the upcoming chapters. Later on, the book will introduce you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android development. We'll use Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, which will guide you through writing Kotlin code in production. We'll also show you how to integrate Kotlin into any existing Android project.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Using test suites


A test suite is a collection of tests. We will show you how to create a test collection. Create a test to represent the container for collection. Let's call it MainSuite:

    package com.journaler 
 
    import org.junit.runner.RunWith 
    import org.junit.runners.Suite 
 
    @RunWith(Suite::class) 
    @Suite.SuiteClasses( 
        DummyTest::class, 
        MainServiceTest::class 
    ) 
    class MainSuite  

Repeat the procedure we did for the instrumentation test from our example to run your test suite.

How to test UI

Testing the UI can help us prevent the user from discovering unexpected situations, crashing the application, or getting poor performance. We strongly recommend you to write UI tests so you are sure your UI performs as expected. For this purpose, we will introduce the Espresso Framework.

First of all, we will add the dependency for it as follows:

    ... 
    compile 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2' 
    androidTestCompile 'com.android...