• Create an maven project structure.
• Adding the specific Android setting to maven.
• Build and run the application.
• Build and run the tests.

This post isn’t about CI, it’s about how to setup an automatic build environment with use of Maven. I will use the Android application and corresponding tests which was developed inside my previous posts.

Create a Maven project structure

If you are brand new to it you may wish to first check out Maven in 5 minutes. Basically create a parent-child structure as shown below.

parent
|— Android
|          |— pom.xml
|— AndroidTest
|          |— pom.xml
|— pom.xml

In this post I’m using maven version 2.2.1.

Adding the specific Android setting to maven

I will be using the maven-android-plugin to build the Android application and Robotium to test the application. In this post I’m using maven-android-plugin version 2.5.2.

The parent project pom.xml must reference the maven-android-plugin, along with the android API level targeted, here I cite version 2.2 (api level 8 )

Build and run the application

• To build the Android.apk, we need add a version of the android platform as a build path dependency in the Android project pom.xml file.
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
    <artifactId>android</artifactId>
    <scope>provided</scope>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>
• Add the goal into the Android project pom.xml to deploy the apk onto an Android emulator.
<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-android-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <goals>
          <goal>deploy</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>
  <plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
  </plugin>
</plugins>
• Specify the source directory.
<sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src</sourceDirectory>
• Run the emulator
• Run the maven command mvn clean install inside the Android project.
• You should get the following result.

Build and run the tests

• To run the tests inside the AndroidTest project, we need add the following dependency inside the AndroidTest project pom.xml file.
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.jayway.android.robotium</groupId>
  <artifactId>robotium-solo</artifactId>
  <version>1.4.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
  <artifactId>android</artifactId>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
  <artifactId>android-test</artifactId>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
• Add the source code of the Android application which it tests.
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.my.android</groupId>
  <artifactId>Android</artifactId>
  <version>${project.version}</version>
  <scope>compile</scope>
  <type>jar</type>
</dependency>
• Specify the source directory.
<sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src</sourceDirectory>
• Run the emulator
• Run the maven command mvn clean install inside the parent project.
• You should get the following result.

Here’s the fully-configured project pom.xml files using ALL of the above:

parent
|— Android
|          |— pom.xml
|— AndroidTest
|          |— pom.xml
|— pom.xml ]]> http://wiebe-elsinga.com/blog/android-automatic-build-environment/feed/ 6 http://wiebe-elsinga.com/blog/android-continuous-integration/ http://wiebe-elsinga.com/blog/android-continuous-integration/#respond Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:05:44 +0000 http://wiebe-elsinga.com/blog/?p=238 So I have been working on a Selenium RC solution with the use of Robotium. To guaranty stable implementation I have set up a Android Continuous Integration Environment. With the use of Maven and Hudson (as done here)  I have achieved this.

Until next time…

p.s. Interesting vid

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