Android :: Best Practice - Testing Application Kill
Mar 9, 2010
I'm having troubles with users that report that if they leave the application opened and after a few hours when they return to it the app crashes. I'm pretty sure it is because I'm not storing/restoring the status correctly when my process is killed by the system, but I would like to be able to test it in a repeatable way. Which is the best way to simulate the same behavior that happens when Android kills my process on low memory conditions?
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Apr 8, 2010
I am still learning bu find Android the cool platform for allot of useful applications. I have written a Service for doing GPS tracking and it consists of a Service and a Control activity to manage, monitor and configure the service. I am looking for the preferred way for the Control Activity to define settings for the Service, things like IP address and Update interval. I envision something like a Registry on windows where these settings can be shares and updated.
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Apr 19, 2009
What is the best way to release two versions of an application? E.g. a free version with limited features, and a paid version with the full feature set. #ifdef would be the ideal way to do this, but Java doesn't support it. Could I do something like: try {import com.foo.myapplication.ExtraFeatures; } catch (Exception e) { // ignore it, this must be the free version}? I could manage with this kind of construct, although #ifdef really would be ideal.
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Jun 20, 2010
I am new to developing for android. I have a question regarding some best practices. My app is like a dashboard from which multiple different "sub-activities" can be started and done. I am wondering what is the best way to structure the app. One way is to have different layouts and load and unload them appropriately. The other is to start new activities using intents. At least this is what I have gathered from what I have read.
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May 30, 2010
I want my app to kill a running app but i got the problem that since AP I 8 the method is deprecated and i need to use another function. So i want that if AP I level of the device is smaller than 8 it runs this
Activity Manager a M = (Activity Manager) this.get System Service(ACTIVITY_SERVICE); a M.restart Package(package); And from 8 this But how do i accomplish this because using something like an if will make the compiler complain.
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Jun 8, 2010
I started a sample application and called finish() method when user clicks the button. Then it is showing the android home screen and called the on Destroy() method also. But if i am executing the 'ps' command in android shell still it is showing the dip of my application. What is the meaning of finish()? Is it not terminate the process? if not how can i terminate the process(we can do kill -9 pid in android shell but i want programmatic approach).
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Sep 9, 2009
We are working on an application that is a "Black Box in a phone" Written only for Android at the moment, we have tested on T1 and Magic, and we are looking for people to help us test it in various circumstances.
The app is designed for pilots and those that fly, tracks the phone in realtime and displays it on others phones and also in 3D on the website, GPS Logbooks - Home | Black Box Flight Recording, using only your Android cell phone.
The app is now in the marketplace, so we are looking for pilots, navigators, glider pilots, balloonists, sky divers and anyone else who likes to fly to download the app and go flying. After that you can publish your flights and share them with others.
Please note that your location data is visible to anyone on the site when you are flying live, so don't use it if you are somewhere that you don't want people to know about.
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Sep 3, 2010
I haven't manage all errors on my application anymore. So I would like to know if it is possible to Kill the entire app when it crashes? (when the message "app MyApp crash, force close" appear, I would like the application to be killed when user clicks on "force close")
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Jun 23, 2010
I want to offer the user an option to exit the application as I need to delete some sensitive data, which is stored in the SharesPreferences as long as the application needs it.
As soon as the user wants to exit, the password in the SharedPreferences should be wiped and of course all activities of the application should be closed (it makes no sense to run them without the known password - they would crash).
How can I do that?
System.exit(0) and finish() only exit the current activity - useless. I know there is a taskmanager app. How is that one doing it? It's able to kill the whole application ...
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May 26, 2009
how do i kill an android application
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Feb 24, 2010
I wrote a simplest test based on android.test.ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2.
CODE:..............
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Oct 2, 2010
What are different points to note down while testing android applications? What are different techniques or test cases used for android?
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Feb 18, 2009
the thread sleeped not killed and it wakes up after 10 sec and try to post message and it causes exception. is there any way to kill the threads those are in sleep mode while exiting the application?
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Sep 27, 2010
After searching, I was unable to find any post that deals with my particular problem, and I don't know if it's a problem or something I have to deal with. On my LG Eve (unlocked, not yet rooted), when I run Task killer, I notice that there are two items in the list that look like configuration files (window with a gear in front of it):
com.tni.Task killer:Captain Obviously, the first one is linked to Task killer and if I kill the configuration file, it kills the Task killer process. When I try to kill beware.com, though, it does nothing. The file remains in the list and is also visible in the Task killer widget. (Speaking of the widget, when I kill Task killer, the icon for the 2 configuration files usually remain, even if I auto kill everything.) Doing a little searching on the tubes, I found that beware.com are the developer for Quick Settings. I don't think I downloaded that app yet, but I might have and subsequently deleted it. Is it possible that the configuration file remains after I un install an app? If so, how do I remove that con fig file?
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Oct 20, 2009
i get following error, if i test my app on a real android phone. On the emulator, my app works fine.
W/dalvikvm( 321): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70) E/AndroidRuntime( 321): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception E/AndroidRuntime( 321): java.lang.VerifyError: de.stefandahmen.android.TourList E/AndroidRuntime( 321): at java.lang.Class.newInstanceImpl (Native Method) E/AndroidRuntime( 321): at java.lang.Class.newInstance (Class.java:1472) E/AndroidRuntime( 321): at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1097) E/AndroidRuntime( 321):.....
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Oct 8, 2010
I want to start with a consistent test environment so I need to reset/clear my preferences. Here's the SetUp for test I have so far. It's not reporting any errors, and my tests pass, but the preferences are not being cleared.
I'm testing the "MainMenu" activity, but I temporarily switch to the OptionScreen activity (which extends Android's PreferenceActivity class.)
I do see the test correctly open the OptionScreen during the run.
CODE
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StartNewActivity Code:
CODE:.................
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Jun 30, 2010
Is it possible if my application is running and that time if any incoming call arrives then i want to kill or wait that call (phone activity). any one achieve this type of work in android. i have a no idea how to do this.
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May 4, 2010
It seems that what's draining my battery the most is my poor signal at work. I killed mobile data today while at my desk and despite the battery having just turned orange, it didn't turn red for nearly 5 more hours. So, I'd like an app that will kill the data connection at a certain time. Ti terrific and Setting Profiles Lite don't have the option to just kill data, only an airplane mode option.
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Dec 17, 2009
I have the startup auditor and Task Panel apps. I want to try and setup the phone to always have as much memory available as possible. Most of them are pretty obvious but there are a few I'm not sure of. Does anyone have a comprehensive list of services/processes/etc. that we can safely kill off and/or set for auto-kill/disable at startup? Edit: One I was curious about is Google Partner Setup. I have killed it off without any issues through Task Panel. But would having it on the auto-kill list be OK?
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Jan 12, 2010
I have a problem that annoys me a lot when sometimes i kill all apps or when the mobile goes sleep, when reopen it and then unlock the screen, the HTC logo appears and it starts loading till it is ready.
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Nov 23, 2010
Situation: Second day of owning X8. So I'm downloading some Apps and one of them took forever, the download arrow was showing activity all through the night. (I was on WiFi) This morning, I pull down the Activity bar and see that the phone thinks the Download is still continuing. I couldn't see anyway to force quit other than turning off the phone. So, how does one Kill an Activity, Application, or Process in this Android system?
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Apr 16, 2009
I've been exploring the Android test package and I'm very confused on how to implement functional testing for endpoint-to-endpoint.
Consider the example below, I have 4 activities: 1. A Contact List Activity 2. A View Contact Activity 3. An Add/Edit Contact Activity 4. A Sync Contact List activity
I want to automate a few tests that will go through multiple test cases simulating a user experience: From launching the application, to selecting 'Add contact;' opening the add contact activity, entering data, saving it, going back to the list activity, and verifying the new contact was saved properly.
As I understand it, ActivityInstrumentationTestCase<T extends Activity> and ActivityUnitTestCase<T extends Activity>, are only useful for testing single activity functionality.
But what if I need to switch between 2 or more activities inside a single functional test case?
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Sep 18, 2010
my app works fine on samsung galaxy and nexus one. It is giving problem on htc incredible. How should I test my application for various phones?
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Aug 6, 2010
I'm new to android unit testing. I'm trying to write a unit test for the Phone application:
package com.android.phone;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.test.ApplicationTestCase;
import android.test.suitebuilder.annotation.MediumTest;
import com.android.phone.PhoneApp;
import dalvik.annotation.TestTargetClass;...............
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Dec 23, 2009
What exactly are mock tests... I need to know the mock and performance tests available in android for testing android apps..what is the best tool for testing android apps and how..
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Jun 14, 2010
I was wondering if any one had compiled a list of the most commonly used Android devices so I can get an idea of what I should test for. Even better would be suggested configurations for emulating each device.
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Sep 18, 2010
How do I test my android application such that it works on all major android phones ? e.g. Motorola, HTC, Samsung etc. I have an app that works on nexus one and samsung but it is giving problems on htc incredible.
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Aug 2, 2010
I have a sizable install base already on some apps with Android 1.5 set as the minimum version. I want to update the apps to take advantage of some of the newer features offered in Android 2.0 and greater. What is the best way forward so I don't break things for my current 1.5 and 1.6 users?
If I simply update the application with a new min SDK version, will 1.5 and 1.6 users be prompted to uninstall? Or will they just not see the update? What about future development that I want to apply for everyone, say a bugfix. Will I have painted myself into a corner? Another solution would be to fork and create a new app for 2.0 users, but that is undesirable for several reasons.
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Jun 23, 2010
I have had my Desire no for almost 2 months, and like most I have tried installing and uninstalling many apps, to see what I like.Due to doing a factory reset on my phone yesterday I have layered back all the apps I was using and have noticed that I have used considerably less memory than before, making me very suspicious of the uninstall method used within the market place.Does it leave behind pieces of the app, and if so what's the cleanest method of uninstalling apps.
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Dec 4, 2009
I've been scouring the web looking for information on setting up a peer-to-peer connection between Android handsets and so far have drawn a blank. The only thing I can definitively seem to work out is that it was made a whole lot more difficult when XMPP was removed from 1.0. Apart from that, I find a couple of threads on an OpenIntents board about porting an XMPP implementation to Android that were last posted nearly 2 years ago. Has anybody solved this problem effectively? What's the best way of doing it (from a games point of view)?
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