Mobile Automation Newsletter - #4

Merge conflicts in `.proj` file is one of the most painful things in iOS development. Jeroen presents an excellent way to avoid having to place Xcode project files in the source control system at all! 😍

Hristijan shows how to properly install and configure Spotless and Ktlint for your Android app to clean up your Kotlin code as much as possible. Pre-commit hook comes as a nice addition.

Dima Zaytsev and Moataz Nabil held a great webinar on the Maestro testing framework, covering both the CI setup in Bitrise + Maestro Cloud and the basics of the framework itself. Check it out to find out more.

Talking of Maestro, Daniel Knott tried it too and even recorded a nice walkthrough on his YouTube channel. Daniel mentioned the video this week, so I think it should be a nice addition to the official webinar if you haven't seen it already.

WebdriverIO is another cross-platform testing framework that allows to interact with mobile devices via Appium driver. Amr Salem walks us through the setup process and shows how to run tests on an Android emulator in GitHub Actions.

I've been wondering how to test async/await code on iOS and this week Antoine van der Lee shared his experience of doing exactly this. As it turns out, writing async tests is not much different from writing sync ones, but there are a few crucial concepts to be aware of.

In these series of articles, Stelios Frantzeskakis shares some best practices for cooking Unit tests on Android in Kotlin. I really like his approach with «Given, When, Thens». Funny enough, just a couple of weeks ago I even described how to implement something similar on iOS.

This article, written by Eugene Matsyuk, is all about the options and things that should be considered when crafting your very own UI Testing Infrastructure on Android. It's no secret that the number of UI tests tends to grow, so it's crucial to have an infrastructure that can adapt.

Christian Findlay talks about widget tests and dependency injections on Flutter and how it allows to test UI behavior, simulate real-world user interactions, and achieve more comprehensive coverage.

Have you ever wondered how to configure Xcode Cloud to deploy beta apps? Pol Piella covers all this and more. Fun times, even in Apple's native CI, fastlane is still the easiest and most convenient way to get some of the work done 😅
In addition, Pol shared his plans for a book on Xcode Cloud. Smash Twitter's subscribe button if you don't want to miss it.

Simon Ng released such an excellent tutorial on how to easily create elegant documentation for your iOS/macOS projects and publish it on a custom website or GitHub Pages.

Frédéric Torcheux gives us an overview of how Gradle tasks and plugins work and, more importantly, how to create custom ones for any need and possibly to share them with the world.

Version Catalogs offer an improved way to manage dependencies on Android and Kashif Mehmood shares really straightforward steps to integrate them into your project.