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Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

By : Madona S. Wambua
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Book Image

Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Madona S. Wambua

Overview of this book

Android is a powerful operating system widely used in various devices, phones, TVs, wearables, automobiles, and more. This Android cookbook will teach you how to leverage the latest Android development technologies for creating incredible applications while making effective use of popular Jetpack libraries. You’ll also learn which critical principles to consider when developing Android apps. The book begins with recipes to get you started with the declarative UI framework, Jetpack Compose, and help you with handling UI states, Navigation, Hilt, Room, Wear OS, and more as you learn what's new in modern Android development. Subsequent chapters will focus on developing apps for large screens, leveraging Jetpack’s WorkManager, managing graphic user interface alerts, and tips and tricks within Android studio. Throughout the book, you'll also see testing being implemented for enhancing Android development, and gain insights into harnessing the integrated development environment of Android studio. Finally, you’ll discover best practices for robust modern app development. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build an Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the newest modern Android development technologies, resulting in highly efficient applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Testing Worker implementations

Testing your Worker implementation is crucial, as it helps ensure your code is well handled and your team follows the proper guidelines for writing great code. This will be an integration test, which means we will add our code to the androidTest folder. This recipe will look into how to add tests for your worker.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, you need to have completed all previous recipes of this chapter.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to get started with testing WorkManager. We will look at examples in this recipe:

  1. First, you need to add the testing dependency in your build.gradle file:
    androidTestImplementation("androidx.work:work-testing:$work_version")

In the scenario where something in the API changes in the future, there’s a stable version that you can use, and you can always find that in the documentation by following this link: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx...