Monday, November 7, 2016
Test Butler 1.1.0 Released
My team at LinkedIn just released a new version of Test Butler, an Android testing utility that makes your tests more stable and reliable.
The headline feature is the ability to grant runtime permissions from Test Butler on Android Marshmallow and above. Since Test Butler is a system-level application, it can grant these permissions...
Read moreMonday, August 8, 2016
Android mini collectibles Series 6
Anyone who's seen my desk knows I'm a fan of these mini figurines. Can't wait for Series 6 to be released.
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Read moreSaturday, August 6, 2016
Test Butler: New Android library from LinkedIn
If you're an Android developer, check out Test Butler, a new open source Android testing utility from my team at LinkedIn. Simply installing this on your Android emulator and adding one line of code will automatically make your tests more stable and reliable. For more details, head over to the announcement post on the LinkedIn Engineering...
Read moreSaturday, April 23, 2016
How to hide Android soft keyboard in tests
I've been running Android UI tests at my company using the API 22 revision 1 emulator (Android 5.1). Things have overall been pretty stable, but since most devices have received an update to at least Android 5.1.1 (the revision 4 emulator...
Read moreMonday, February 29, 2016
Android Logcat Tag Best Practices
The Android API provides a useful way for developers to collect and view system debug output. The tool, Logcat, contains stack traces from application crashes, as well as custom messages that developers can provide in their code. Every log message has an associated "tag" field, which is the main focus of this post.
Conventionally, developers...
Read moreFriday, January 1, 2016
Trying out Omnifocus
After recently wrapping up the initial release of the new LinkedIn app for Android & iOS, I took a long-awaited break over the holidays to unwind and refresh. I started taking a look at all the stuff I'd been putting off for the last few months...and realized I needed a better way to stay on top of all this.
I had over 50 constantly...
Read moreWednesday, November 25, 2015
Gradle Performance Tips from Android Dev Summit
Yesterday was the last day of the Android Dev Summit conference by Google. The conference was packed with deep-dive tech talks on some of the most relevant topics to Android devs today, including Gradle build optimizations, performance testing tools, and data binding tips. I left the conference with a long list of things I can change to...
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