Android Espresso Revealed: Writing Automated UI Tests

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Denys ZelenchukAndroid Espresso Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4315-2_14

14. AndroidX Test Library

Denys Zelenchuk¹ 

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Zürich, Switzerland

 

A May 2018 Google I/O event announced the AndroidX open source project, which is used to develop, test, package, version, and release libraries within Android Jetpack. AndroidX replaces the Android Support Library. One of its major improvements is the fact that AndroidX packages are separately maintained and updated, so you can update AndroidX Libraries in your project independently.

Since Android Test Libraries are part of the Android Support Library, AndroidX also contains the AndroidX Test Library. Its beta version was announced at the Google I/O event in May 2018. During ...