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Published inFeb 2021
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Alex Forrester
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Alex Forrester

Alex Forrester is an experienced software developer with more than 20 years of experience in mobile, web development, and content management systems. He has been working with Android for over 8 years, creating flagship apps for blue-chip companies across a broad range of industries at Sky, The Automobile Association, HSBC, The Discovery Channel, and O2. Alex lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and daughter. When he's not developing, he likes rugby and running in the Chiltern hills.
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Eran Boudjnah

Eran Boudjnah is a developer with over 20 years of experience in developing desktop applications, websites, interactive attractions, and mobile applications. He has been working with Android for about 7 years, developing apps and leading mobile teams for a wide range of clients, from start-ups (JustEat) to large-scale companies (Sky) and conglomerates. He is passionate about board games (with a modest collection of a few hundred games) and has a Transformers collection he's quite proud of. Eran lives in North London with Lea, his wife.
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Alexandru Dumbravan has been an Android Developer since 2011 and worked across a variety of Android applications which contained features such as messaging, voice calls, file management, and location. He continues to broaden his development skills while working in London for a popular fintech company.
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Jomar Tigcal

Jomar Tigcal is an Android developer with over 10 years of experience in mobile and software development. He worked on various stages of app development for small startups to large companies. Jomar has also given talks and conducted training and workshops on Android. In his free time, he likes running and reading. He lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife Celine.
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Test-Driven Development

Let's assume that you are tasked with building an activity that displays a calculator with the add, subtract, multiply, and divide options. You must also write tests for your implementation. Typically, you would build your UI and your activity and a separate Calculator class. Then, you would write the unit tests for your Calculator class and then your activity class.

Under the Android TDD process, you would have to write your UI test with your scenarios first. In order to achieve this, you can create a skeleton UI to avoid compile-time errors. After your UI test, you would need to write your Calculator test. Here, you would also need to create the necessary methods in the Calculator class to avoid compile-time errors.

If you run your tests in this phase, they would fail. This would force you to implement your code until the tests pass. Once your Calculator tests pass, you can connect your calculator to your UI until your UI tests pass. While this...

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Alex Forrester

Alex Forrester is an experienced software developer with more than 20 years of experience in mobile, web development, and content management systems. He has been working with Android for over 8 years, creating flagship apps for blue-chip companies across a broad range of industries at Sky, The Automobile Association, HSBC, The Discovery Channel, and O2. Alex lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and daughter. When he's not developing, he likes rugby and running in the Chiltern hills.
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Eran Boudjnah

Eran Boudjnah is a developer with over 20 years of experience in developing desktop applications, websites, interactive attractions, and mobile applications. He has been working with Android for about 7 years, developing apps and leading mobile teams for a wide range of clients, from start-ups (JustEat) to large-scale companies (Sky) and conglomerates. He is passionate about board games (with a modest collection of a few hundred games) and has a Transformers collection he's quite proud of. Eran lives in North London with Lea, his wife.
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Alexandru Dumbravan

Alexandru Dumbravan has been an Android Developer since 2011 and worked across a variety of Android applications which contained features such as messaging, voice calls, file management, and location. He continues to broaden his development skills while working in London for a popular fintech company.
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Jomar Tigcal

Jomar Tigcal is an Android developer with over 10 years of experience in mobile and software development. He worked on various stages of app development for small startups to large companies. Jomar has also given talks and conducted training and workshops on Android. In his free time, he likes running and reading. He lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife Celine.
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