As I personally think the Android Emulator is not reliable at all for CI streamlining, I used an actual Android device plug to the CI server to run Android tests which is probably not a realistic or feasible setup for most developer teams that use VPS or cloud CI services. Furthermore buying and having a […]
I’m currently working on a commuter app (Madrid Metro|Bus|Cercanias) that allows you to browse among more than 1000 bus line maps (.png files). Obviously instead of shipping 500MB .png files within the apk I’m hosting these files on Amazon Simple Storage Service (aka Amazon S3) and the app just downloads and caches the images on the device upon […]
I have recently acquired a new MacBook Pro as my main Android development machine and instead of selling or giving away my old Mac BookPro (13″, late 2011, 16GB RAM, 500G SSD, Core i5 2,4GHz, 64Bit) I have wiped it out and turned it into a Continuous Integration Server with dual boot MacOS-Ubuntu. The goal […]
