During the course of two days I gave two talks and one workshop. The workshop “Prototype your Mobile UX design” was intended to show participants how to prototype an Android application. 100 participants attended this 2 hour workshop, and I was really impressed by the skill level they presented.

Thank you all.

The library is a unbundled static testing library for Android that containers all Android testing frameworks by Google. It will become a available through the Android Support repository and as open source in AOSP.

So what does it contain?

• AndroidJUnitRunner
  This Runner, based on android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner, runs JUnit3 and JUnit4 tests against an Android package (application). Let me give an example:
  @RunWith (JUnit4.class)
  public class MyJUnit4Test {
  {
    Droidcon mDroidconUK;
   
    @Before
    public void setUp() {
      mDroidconUK = new Droidcons.get(Droidcon.UK);
      mDroidconUK.open();
    }
  
    @Test
    public void checkPreconditions() {
      assertNotNull("mDroidconUK cannot be null", mDroidconUK);
    }
  
    @After
    public void tearDown() {
      mDroidconUK.close();
    }
  }

• Espresso
  Introduced at the GTAC in 2013, Espresso makes it possible to write concise, beautiful, and reliable Android UI tests quickly. Lets look at some examples:
  // Find view using a Matcher and type text using a ViewAction
  onView(withId(R.id.message_edit_text)).perform(typeText(TEXT_MESSAGE), closeSoftKeyboard());
  
  // Perform a click ViewAction
  onView(withId(R.id.send_button)).perform(click());
  
  // Verify using a ViewAssertion
  onView(withId(R.id.received_message_text_view)).check(matches(withText((TEXT_MESSAGE))));

• Intento
  Intento is like Mockito but for Intents. Basically a mock framework that allows you to create and configure mock objects. Let me give you an example:
  public void testDailerInput_typeNumberAndCall() {
   
    //Type phonenumber in dialer
    onView(withId(R.id.send_data_to_call_edit_text)).perform(scrollTo(), typeText("123-345-6789"), closeSoftKeyboard());
   
    // Click the call button
    onView(withId(R.id.send_to_call_button)).perform(scrollTo(), click());
   
    //Validate Intent has been send
    intended(allOf(
        hasAction(Intent.ACTION_CALL),
        toPackage("com.android.phone"),
        hasData(allOf(hasSchemaSpecificPart("tel", "123-345-6789")))),
        times(1));
  }

In conclusion: Testing with Android is finally becoming a more prominent part of Android Development cycle with the introduction of the Android Testing Support Library

During the course of three days I gave a talk about prototyping your mobile application, and I gave a workshop about mobile UX design. Also I had the chance to explain Google Glass (being a Glass Explorer) to all visitors and Greek politicians.

Τα λέμε την επόμενη φορά

Prototypes can be a great way to improve mobile software development project results on two fronts: they can prove a concept or improve on it, and they can teach the development team valuable lessons about the best ways to develop the product. This session will provide practical information about the approach and experiences implementing prototyping inside a mobile software development process

Day one was Barcamp day, an ‘unconference’-style day where attendees where invited to present short talks based on their professional interests.
Besides a talk about “Device fragmentation, done the right way” which a colleague of mine gave, one of the best talks was given by Bitbar about a product called testdroid. Have a look at one of their products.

Day two was the conference day. It featured talks from industry experts alongside large Android players such as Google, Facebook and Sony.
Great talk where given by Mark Murphy (CommonsWare), Cyril Mottier (Prixing) on the Fly-in app, Matt Gaunt (Google) on developing for Google TV, Corey Latislaw (Chariot Solutions) on Fragments, and Simon Cross (Facebook) on Open Graph.

This year’s event coincides with the 5th anniversary of the launch of Android, So celebrate this special milestone, they organized an Android hackathon.

In conclusion a great event, and hope I’ll be back next year.

“V Hack Android” Dutch edition

I’m happy to announce that together with the Dutch Android User Group, Google Developer Group Netherlands and Appsterdam.rs I’m organizing the Dutch edition of this international hackathon where teams of exactly 3 people (2 Android developers and 1 UI/UX expert) will work on a new Android app in a to-be-announced theme.

So what to expect..

The “V Hack Android” Netherlands hackathon will be held in the weekend of Friday 14th – Sunday 16th of September.

Preliminary schedule (subject to change)

Friday

• 19:00 – 21:00 Opening scrum with drinks & snacks

Saturday

• 10:00 Opening hackathon day 1
• 13:00 Lunch
• 18:00 Dinner

Sunday

• 10:00 Opening hackathon day 2
• 13:00 Lunch
• 16:00 Demo’s and votes
• 18:00 Drinks and snacks

The winning Dutch team will be chosen by an independent jury. After this weekend the winning team can request support of the whole Dutch Android community to improve their app!

Help spread the word

From the 26th of February to the 1st of March 2012 I’ll be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Hall 2.1 is dedicated entirely to Apps and promises to be the most interesting part of this exhibition which hosted over 50000 visitors last year. I welcome you to drop by and have a chat at stand 2.1E67.

Introduction DutchAUG

Before the keynote was given, Johan Pelgrim (@jowipe), announced the formation of the Dutch Android User group. Besides the fact that I’m co-organizer, it’s important to join this group because of the power that a community can give to an individual.

Source: Jaime Visser

Nick Butcher (Google)

Nick Butcher (@crafty) is an Android Developer Advocate, working at Google’s London office. He reminded us, Android Developers, that the time of creating wonderful Android apps is over, they need to be awesome. During his opening keynote and while talking about ICS, he gave a demo about Android Beam, and it worked (always exiting, a live demo).

Source: stevechippy

Jens Mücke (Xing)

Jens Mücke (@jensmuecke) is a Senior Software Engineer at XING. He gave an inside view on how to become a Mobile company. I must say, not all points mentioned I can concur, but it’s always interesting to hear other companies talk about their strategy.

Novoda

Novoda (@novoda) is an Android consultancy company based in London. Presenters Jamie McDonald, Luigi Agosti, Carl-Gustaf Harroch and Gonçalo Silva gave a talk about using Continuous Integration. It’s funny to see that they have the same setup as we, ItudeMobile, use. I must thank them because they helped me with one problem I had with Jenkins.

Me

And than it was my turn to talk about prototyping. Thanks everybody for attending my talk.

 Source: Jaime Visser

Christine Karman

Christine Karman (@Xtien) is a Senior Software Engineer. She described, by way of clear code examples the use of RoboGuice. Great presentation.

Richard Hyndman

Richard Hyndman (@geekyouup) also an Android Developer Advocate, working at Google’s London office. He took the audience on a journey. Starting at the beginning of this year, telling how well Android is doing, until what the future holds for Android.

Conclusion

For the first ever droidcon in Amsterdam, they have done their best to make a good first impression. Some tweaking still needs to be done, but will be there next year. For enyone that’s interested in my talk, here’s my presentation