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Expert Android Programming

You're reading from   Expert Android Programming Master skills to build enterprise grade Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468956
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prajyot Mainkar Prajyot Mainkar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding the Gradle System FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Android Studio Developer Tools 3. Leap into the Android Support Library 4. Google Play Services 5. Material Design 6. SOLID Android Development and Its Design Principles 7. Understanding MVC, MVP, MVVM and Clean Arch Patterns 8. Decision Making 9. Performance Matters 10. Building Restaurant finder 11. Backend Service 12. App Quality Service 13. Grow Up 14. Testing 15. Preparing for Google Play 16. Understanding App Store Analytics for Optimization

Firebase Test Lab

Growth of your app's user base depends on several factors and one of the crucial factors is the quality of your application. According to Google, most of the apps given a one star rating is directly related to app crashes and bugs in the app.

For many developers, it is challenging to find and resolve these bugs prior to releasing to the market. As the Android ecosystem evolves, it becomes more challenging to adhere to the quality of the app. Manually testing the app becomes more complex as the user base increases; accessing devices that are unavailable in your country also becomes difficult. Setting a pre-testing facility for testing is an expensive affair to begin with, and is an ever evolving process in terms of continual maintenance.

To help developers with seamless testing, Google has introduced Firebase Test Lab, which is a cloud-based infrastructure...

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