A simple developer's journey

Did you heard about Spoon ? If you are a mobile developer (in our case an Android developer with hundreds of available target devices), and you know how much testing your app is important, take a look at Spoon ! This tool will enable you to test your app simultaneously - on several android devices, - to take different steps screenshots during your tests, - to display the results in a meaningful way - to compare screenshots from the several devices... Spoon is available on Github: https://github.com/square/spoon All you need to start is here: http://square.github.io/spoon/ Just take a look below or click on the link below to display a Spoon output sample: http://square.github.io/spoon/sample/index.html

Warning before to start Before to install a custom APK app on your device, make sure it comes from a secured and trusted source ! Generate your APK using Xamarin Studio In order to have a valid package file (APK file), we have to generate a valid package signed with a security certificate. You can use a temporary certificate for test purpose. The process bellow shows you how to do that using Xamarin Studio Wizard: Generate your APK Select Archive for publishing menu Then select "Ad-Hoc" option (to generate your APK localy) Click on "Sign and distribute" Create a custom signing certificate Create a temporary certificate to sign your APK file Install the APK on the target device Configure the target device In order to accept and install a "custom" APK (application coming from other sources than the Play Store), you will need to unlock your phone. This is done in the phone's parameters

The goal of this post is to present you ( very quickly ) how to set up a TFS server (give you the steps) in order to get a continuous build integration environment. We will also talk about continuous deployement. For all the details, please take a look at the bottom of this post for the reference links... To summarize, the continuous integration process will help your team to merge their working copies  of your application code and to discover faster when a build fails. The reasons why a build fail can be multiple: - errors in code - a test fails - code analysis fails... We will take a look at the following points: - Configure the TFS Server - Create a new build definition - Insert tests in your build process - Manage team project's check-in policies - Deal with NuGet packages - Automatically deploy your project with MsDeploy. Setup your TFS 2013 server First you need to have a server that will manage and build your code. Install a TFS server and configu