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Learn Spring for Android Application Development

You're reading from   Learn Spring for Android Application Development Build robust Android applications with Kotlin 1.3 and Spring 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789349252
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat
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Igor Kucherenko Igor Kucherenko
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Preface 1. About the Environment 2. Overview of Kotlin FREE CHAPTER 3. Overview of Spring Framework 4. Spring Modules for Android 5. Securing Applications with Spring Security 6. Accessing the Database 7. Concurrency 8. Reactive Programming 9. Creating an Application 10. Testing an Application 11. Assessments 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Espresso

Espresso is an open source framework and an instrumentation-based API, designed by Google. It is good practice to create some test cases of various scenarios of the project. It helps to find out the unexpected results or bugs of the UI, as well as the use case. It automatically syncs the actions of the test with the UI of the application. It allows you to test on both real devices and emulators. But there is a disadvantage of the use in a real device due to its high price to test various size of displays and manufacturers. So an emulator is the best solution to reduce the cost and time for testing. According to the Espresso testers, almost 99% of bugs on an Android application can be detected by this framework. The APIs of Espresso are very small, predictable, and easy to learn. You can also customize these APIs if you want.

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