In this post, I’ll introduce you to adam: a kotlin-based replacement for developer-to-android-device interaction. Most of the current tools for interaction with ADB server use ddmlib: a Java-based library that is supposed to help tool developers. The following diagram illustrates the flow of interaction:

Hello. It’s currently 2019 and testing open source Android projects is extremely hard. The reason for this is the state of Android Emulator and it’s dependencies. I am going to focus on the official Android Emulator images provided via the Android SDK Before Android 26 we had: x86 images, provided…

Working with any build system is fun and games until you reach a point where almost every single person complains about the performance of builds. As with any problem, it requires tools in order to be solved. For the past week or so, I’ve tried to understand if it’s possible…

In this chapter, I’ll explain how Marathon test runner is implemented and what are the basic concepts that are used. For the previous chapter see Chapter 1. Helicopter view Marathon test runner is written in Kotlin with extensive use of coroutines. Test runner consists of several Gradle modules. …

So you’ve scaled up your mobile infrastructure to support the ever-growing number of tests for your application, and you think everything will be fast, right?… Wrong! In the next several minutes I’ll teach you why scaling infrastructure doesn’t necessarily lead to faster test execution and how you can address this. …