As mentioned in the first article Ali Derbane and me wrote about Android Functional Testing, there are a lot of frameworks you can use. In this second part of the journey I will be explaining the functional testing framework called Espresso.

So you are stuck using screenOrientation in your android:configChanges list within your AndroidManifest. Your activity will not be recreated, but will receive a callback instead. You may not know that this is insufficient on API level of 13 or above. In API level 13 or above, the scre

Today a tip from my colleague Coen Houtman, a tip about Fragments and the container to put them in. What all of you Fragment users know, is that you must have a container (i.e. ViewGroup) to put your fragments in. Which ViewGroup is the best to use? Normally, with any other layout I w

The humble short message service (SMS) celebrates its 20th birthday today. Engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS to an Orbitel 901 handset via Vodafone UK’s network in 1992: “Merry Christmas.” It would be safe to say that nearly every mobile phone sold in the pas

Looks like Android 4.2. has a “minnor” Bug. They aren’t celebrating Christmas at Google because Android 4.2 lacks the month of December.