I’m learning about Android Material Design 3. Material 3 is the latest version of Google’s open-source design system. Design and build beautiful, usable products with Material 3. Pretty cool library tools for Android developers, more info here https://m3.material.io/ and https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/designsystems/material3. I added the below dependency to my Android project: implementation…

AdMob requires to crawl your website to get the app-ads.txt content. When you add ads to your Android app, one Admob step is to add the file app-ads.txt to your website. For example abc.com/app-ads.txt. To achieve this we need to host our app-ads.txt on a public URL, luckily Github lets…

By default FTL tests run the debug build. To run Firebase Test Lab test on the release build we need to make a small change inside build.gradle. Steps: 1. Change to Build type “Release” 2. Inside build.gradle add “ testBuildType “release”” { android { testBuildType "release" } } 3. It…

A good security practice is to never push account credentials to your online code repository like Github. This tutorial helps you keep your secrets secure. Github offers “repository” secrets. The secret variable will be fetch at runtime. From your Git repo go to: Settings -> Secrets and variables -> Actions…

How to configure Firebase test lab Gradle managed devices to run on GitHub Actions and Bitrise. In the previous posts run GMD from Android Studio and run GMD using Firebase test lab devices from Android Studio we configure how to run GMD locally, in this tutorial we are going to configure GMD to run on our CI pipelines. We are going to focus on setting up…

When using the latest Gradle(alpha) versions we get the build error “Failed License not accepted for build tools”. The solution is to add command to accept the license. Below are code snippets to fix Github actions and Dockerfile. Error: Checking the license for package Android SDK Build-Tools 34-rc3 in /usr/local/lib/android/sdk/licenses Warning…

Android Automation Testing with Gradle Managed Devices using Firebase TestLab devices The new Android Gradle plugin helps developers run test on virtual/real devices. Testing Android applications as part of the CI process can get complicated, sometimes it’s hard to have a stable environment to run Android test automation. Google is helping developers with creating virtual Android devices to run your tests…

Android Automation Testing with Gradle Managed Devices using Android Studio The new Android Gradle plugin helps developers run test on virtual/real devices. Testing Android applications as part of the CI process can get complicated, sometimes it’s hard to have a stable environment to run Android test automation. Google is helping developers with creating virtual Android devices to run your tests…

Tutorial shows how to run Espresso automation test on release builds. By default Android projects are configured to run on debug builds, to be able to run the tests on release builds we need to add a configuration to our build.gradle file. Add below snippet to your Android project.