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#JavaFx / #Visage actually looks pretty neat for #Android dev. Might have to see if I can get it to build with #maven @steveonjava #
The testing workshop at #AnDevCon was packed! Well over a hundred people. Now I need some refreshment for my voice.. #
Presentation for testing #android app is live http://t.co/ZKnueIcI #
The slides about apache #maven for your #android builds as presented at @AnDevCon are up. http://t.co/3XhJDM3r #
Listening to @cnkurzke and @commonsguy about #GoogleTV I like the controller with mandatory keyboard. #
The fireside chats last night we're GREAT. And today @AnDevCon is off to a great start as well. Learning lots.. #
Watching @romainguy and @chethaase demo #android ics at @AnDevCon I can't wait to get it on my Nexus S. #
The new GridLayout is in the compatibility library. Sweet! Gotta check it out when I get back… @AnDevCon @AndroidDev #
In @emmby 's class about #roboguice … live coding. Sweet. #
Quoting @emmby "I use Maven all the time so I forget that live is hard if you don't use it" … Love it and could not agree more. #
Problems building the #roboguice example from the @AnDevCon class with ADT 14+? Change the android maven plugin version to 3.0.0-alpha-13 #
Updated roboguice calculator example with working maven build at github http://t.co/Z1DxCF7e @emmby #
Exactly. Bring it on!!! RT @huettermann: A #protip for all who complain about unfixed bugs in open source software: fix it yourself! #
After the keynote at @AnDevCon now.. Come with your coffee or ice cream to the #android #maven book signingfor a free book. #
Book signing done and plenty of happy #maven #android users around. Back at #roboguice now. #
Having a pen with your tablet really would make a whole bunch of things nicer. Eg my boys would love drawing with it. @htcdev @AnDevCon #
Also keynote at a developer conference that actually shows some code and dives in. Thank @htcdev for not wasting time with marketing only. #
Home after a rocking @AnDevCon thx to @emmby @donnfelker @JakeWharton @cnkurzke @commonsguy @BZK80 @suzalex and many other new friends #
News about testing #android apps from @AnDevCon #tdd #bdd #ci http://t.co/lLYdRAF3 #
Same at @AnDevCon – refreshing. @jhirn: Loving the lack of #Maven hate at #clojure_conj #
Are you in town? @waynebeaton: Anybody who would vote for Ottawa as Canada's most beautiful city has never been to Victoria. #
Now we need it in the compat lib. @romainguy: Introduction to Android's new layout, GridLayout http://t.co/P4whEuRk #androiddev #android” #

After presenting a long workshop about testing Android apps last Sunday at AnDevCon 2, I bounced into a lot of people interested in the topic and also had some very interesting conversations that show there might be a bright future ahead for testing, TDD and BDD on Android so I thought I share what I found out..
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With a sore throat I braved through the presentation about taking advantage of Apache Maven for your Android application development builds today in front of 40 or so people. I have the impression that the interactive session with demos was well received, but will find out more later. In any case for those of you who missed it the slides are now online for your pleasure. One of the main take aways for me was that we need to ref the plugin version to be at least beta or even better 3.0.0 final and then iterate and improve after because people have this perception that alpha means not stable… why do they think that 😉 The alphas of the Android Maven Plugin are rock solid and I have been using the in production for months..

Having worked with Apache Maven since the Maven 1 days, committing on various open source projects around Maven and Maven usage, using Nexus and Hudson and finally writing the Android chapter of Maven: The Complete Reference, got me into working with the great people at Sonatype. And now they put me into the spotlight. It has been great working with Tim, Jason, Emily, Brian, Juven and all the others and I am looking forward to many more great projects we do together in the future.

Thanks!

manfred

New samples for the #android #maven plugin http://t.co/5GrGu1Lr including compatibility library demos #
Set up the #android sample Spinner and test with #maven as well as the #Robotium sample app. Works like a charm. #AnDevCon #
The Hudson Book I wrote with @tobrien is live! http://t.co/nfwof58y #
Looks really good RT @puls: Introducing Zapp: Continuous integration testing for iOS and KIF http://t.co/Yusl4xo8 #
Apache Harmony JVM is retired. Now we just need to replace it with OpenJDK on Android. Get your act together Google and Oracle! #
In the tablet class of @donnfelker at @AnDevCon. Already met @wbm and a bunch of others. #

Okay… my voice is better now that I had a cup of hot water after holding the workshop about testing Android applications and talking for 4 hours. I covered a lot of ground all the way from plain java testing via Instrumentation testing, Robotium, Robolectric, Borachio and more all the way to running it all on Hudson. Links, details and more are all in the slides.

I hope you will like it.

The samples supported by the community around the Android Maven plugin are a great resource to show how you can use the plugin for various use cases ranging from a simple app all the way to full release build examples or integration with native libraries, native code or external libraries.

Now I have updated the ApiDemos suite that runs instrumentation tests to use API level 10 instead of the old Android 1.5/API level 3 example and added a mavenized version of the sample code for the V4 compatibility library called support4demos.

Its all in the snapshot version in master on github now and ran just fine on Jenkins as well. Go check it out and come to my presentation at AnDevCon next week to learn more.

Even though I ended up not making it JavaOne 2011 and watching it all via the interwebs I did prepare a presentation about Hudson together with Tim. He ended up doing a great job presenting without me and I will present about Hudson and CI with Android at AnDevCon anyway 😉

But in the build up to JavaOne I got interviewed about using Hudson, CI and more by the great folks of theserverside, a web site I have been reading since I started doing Java development. It turned out that I talked so much that two interview articles came out of it. You should read them both 😉

You need an ExpandableListFragment for your @androiddev here you go http://t.co/AGcHA1VO and vote here http://t.co/Jzs5Ybhb #
Macports has been compiling stuff in the background for a few hours now. #
Don't forget to come to tomorrows #vijug meeting at #inhub #yyj about #heroku http://t.co/QgBtFPpt #
Time to come to the #vijug meeting about #heroku and #java in the cloud at @inhubcowork in #yyj http://t.co/QgBtFPpt #
When using #heroku the developer does not need to know about physical or virtual servers! Just the app code. #nice #
#heroku is pretty sweet. With the git publisher plugin you should be able to do continuous deployment from @hudsonci .. I like it! #
I updated the #android chapter in the free #maven reference book. Enjoy! http://t.co/VtNoeax5 #
#heroku looks like a damn nice way to get your #java and other apps into the cloud. #

With my presentation about the Android Maven Plugin at AnDevCon coming up shortly and a huge bunch of changes in the plugin recently is was time to update the Android development chapter in the free book Maven: The Complete Reference. So it got it done and the lastest version available it up to date with the 3.0.0-alpha-12 release of the plugin.

I hope this is helpful and look forward to your feedback. Oh and if you want a hardcover copy there will be a book signing at AnDevCon where you could get a free copy.

See you at AnDevCon or on the Maven Android Developer mailinglist.

Manfred

PS: and if you want to help, send me a pull request on github!

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