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Android Application Development with Maven

Android Application Development with Maven

By : Patroklos Papapetrou, Jonathan LALOU
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Android Application Development with Maven

Android Application Development with Maven

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By: Patroklos Papapetrou, Jonathan LALOU
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Overview of this book

Android Application Development with Maven is intended for Android developers or devops engineers who want to use Maven to effectively develop quality Android applications. It would be helpful, but not necessary, if you have some previous experience with Maven.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Beginning with the Basics
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1. Beginning with the Basics
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Installing Java
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Download and Install Apache Maven
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Android SDK
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Creation of a new project
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Integration with IDE
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Summary
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2. Starting the Development Phase
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2. Starting the Development Phase
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Reminders about Android projects
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Creating an AVD
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Develop and Build
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Architecture principles
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Summary
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3. Unit Testing
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3. Unit Testing
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Effectively testing Android applications
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Running typical unit tests
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Unit testing of activities
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Real unit testing with Robolectric
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Measuring test coverage
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4. Integration Testing
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4. Integration Testing
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Fundamentals of instrumentation testing
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Running Android instrumentation tests
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Grabbing screenshots with Spoon
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Working with Robotium
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UI Tests made easy with Selendroid
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Other integration testing tools
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5. Android Flavors
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5. Android Flavors
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Problem statement
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Introducing Maven profiles
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Creating build profiles
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6. Release Life Cycle and Continuous Integration
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6. Release Life Cycle and Continuous Integration
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Optimizing an Android package
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Releasing a new version
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CI and automation best practices
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7. Other Tools and Plugins
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7. Other Tools and Plugins
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Managing Android code quality
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Boost development speed with GenyMotion
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Index
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Index

Optimizing an Android package

Google has well-defined a set of steps during the packaging and releasing phases of an Android application to ensure authenticity, optimization, and security. There are three suggested practices: sign, obfuscate, and zipalign. The first one is always performed automatically by the Android build system, even if we don't explicitly describe it in Maven configuration and specify a custom key. The other two are optional, but highly recommended for all Android developers.

In this section of the chapter, we will briefly explain the purpose of each step, and then we will discuss how we can configure Maven to run these tasks in a well-structured way like we have already done in all previous examples.

Signing an application

Like we said, Android requires that all packages, in order to be valid for installation in devices, need to be digitally signed with a certificate. This certificate is used by the Android ecosystem to validate the author of the application. Thankfully...

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