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  • Mock API servers for Maestro Android testing using MockServer and Gradle

    Nov 17, 2022 Android mobile Gradle testing

    Maestro is a great library for writing high-level UI tests that verify your Android app works from your users' perspective. For a more detailed intro into Maestro, please see my recent Maestro intro post. If you're testing an app that makes REST API calls, you'll need a way to verify those parts of the app work …

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  • High-level Android UI tests with Maestro

    Oct 30, 2022 Android mobile testing

    For fun I've recently been building an Android app with Kotlin and Compose. With this app, I can set goals for the week and track my progress towards those goals. My schedule is too varied day-to-day to successfully finish daily goals of say, read X minutes a day. But I found that setting goals per week helped me …

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  • Running Android emulator tests in GitHub Actions

    Oct 20, 2022 Android CI github github actions

    Tests for your Android application can come in a couple different flavors: Unit tests Connected Android tests You can execute the regular unit tests under the app/src/test directory without any special setup, but for the connected Android tests under app/src/androidTest you'll need a real device or an Android …

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