Recipe 29Test Android Apps with Calabash

Problem

You want to test an Android application using Cucumber.

Ingredients

  • Calabash,[185] an open source library for testing mobile apps

  • The Android SDK[186] for building and running the example application

  • Eclipse[187] for sketching the user interface

Solution

Calabash is a library that connects Cucumber to Android or iOS apps. The Android flavor works by embedding a TCP server into your application and then controlling it remotely from your computer using the Robotium GUI automation tool.[188]

In this recipe, we’ll write a simple bookmarking application and test it with Calabash. You can perform the tasks either in Eclipse or on the command line; we’ll show Eclipse here.

Setup

To build and run the example ...

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