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Never heard of Continuous Integration Servers like Hudson, Jenkins, CruiseControl or Bamboo? Already using one? Great. You will learn what CI servers are out there for you to use and how easy it is to start using them. We will look at available services as well as how to run your own CI server cluster locally or in the cloud.

With a CI server, you essentially get another team member on your development team who never stops working. We will demo how to set up a new instance of a CI server on a machine and configure it for your usage. Learn how easy it is to build your application, whether you are using Ant, Gradle or Maven. We will explore what sort of scheduling options are typically available to run your builds, and how it all integrates with your version-control system. Once we have a build running, we will add some other projects to the mix and build up a full pipeline of builds.

Adding executions of unit test runs into the mix will make it more interesting. Really cool things start happening when you add devices and emulators and run Android instrumentation tests. And maybe you will want to take screenshots automatically, or capture logs and test results for each build.

With all this happening, we will tie it back to your team by looking at notification options and further automations for release and distribution of your application. During the whole class, we will ensure that you learn many of the best practices of CI server usage in general and specifically related to Android application development, and walk away with a firm conviction to add a CI server to your team.

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https://github.com/simpligility/introduction-to-continuous-integration-for-android-developers

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http://www.simpligility.com/document/ci-intro-android.html

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