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Clean Android Architecture

By : Alexandru Dumbravan
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Clean Android Architecture

By: Alexandru Dumbravan

Overview of this book

As an application’s code base increases, it becomes harder for developers to maintain existing features and introduce new ones. In this clean architecture book, you'll learn to identify when and how this problem emerges and how to structure your code to overcome it. The book starts by explaining clean architecture principles and Android architecture components and then explores the tools, frameworks, and libraries involved. You’ll learn how to structure your application in the data and domain layers, the technologies that go in each layer, and the role that each layer plays in keeping your application clean. You’ll understand how to arrange the code into these two layers and the components involved in assembling them. Finally, you'll cover the presentation layer and the patterns that can be applied to have a decoupled and testable code base. By the end of this architecture book, you'll be able to build an application following clean architecture principles and have the knowledge you need to maintain and test the application easily.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introduction
6
Part 2 – Domain and Data Layers
10
Part 3 – Presentation Layer

Instrumentation testing

In this section, we will look at how to perform instrumentation testing for an Android application and how we can take advantage of dependency injection to inject either mock data or add test-related logic without modifying the structure of an application's code.

Instrumentation testing is a set of tests that are run on an Android device or emulator and is represented by the tests written in the androidTest directory. Just like other parts of Android development, instrumentation testing evolved across the years to improve the quality of test code and to provide the ability to create better tests and assertions. Initially, testing was done using test classes such as ActivityTestCase, ContentProviderTestCase, and ServiceTestCase, which were mainly used to test individual components of an application in isolation. The addition of the Espresso testing libraries allows us to easily test multiple activities as part of the journey a user would undertake.

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