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Expert Android Programming

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Expert Android Programming

Overview of this book

Android O brings a number of important changes for the users as well as the developers. If you want to create smart android applications which are fast, lightweight and also highly efficient then this is the book that will solve all your problems. You will create a complex enterprise grade app in this book. You will get a quick refresher of the latest android SDK and how to configure your development environment. Then you will move onto creating app layouts, component and module building, creating smart and efficient UIs. The most important part of a modern day app is how real time they are. With this book, you will create a smooth back-end for your app, ensure dynamic and real time communication between different app layers. As we move on, you will learn to leverage the different Android APIs and create an efficient SQLite data layer for your apps. You will implement effective testing techniques to make your app reliable and robust and finally you will learn to deploy it efficiently. The multiple stages of android development will also be simplified by giving you an industry standard set of best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Testing UI for Multiple Apps

It is very rare that your app will not make use of some other apps in your phone or some of the system apps present on your device. Hence, testing of such cases where your app has to open another app, make use of that app, and come back, involves some more serious testing. These test cases have to verify that the interactions happening across the other apps are as expected.

When your app has interactions with other apps, it has to first call the other app from your app, open the other app, and see if that app displays the expected behavior, that your app wants it to do, and finally get the response from that other app, if required. If there is a response that is returned from the other app, then it has to be verified and checked if it is as expected by your app.

There could be two examples that I would give. The first in which your app does not require...