Arquillian Android Container vs. Roboletric

[alrubinger]

Hi guys:

Curious: what's the aimed difference between our ARQ Android Container and Roboletric?  Have we talked to those guys at all?

  http://pivotal.github.com/robolectric/

S,

ALR

[aslak]

We don't really have a Android Container in the normal Container sense. We can connect to a device or start a emulator and deploy to it, but no in container bits atm. There is/was a RHSoC project attempting to integrate Roboletric with Arquillian. Not sure about the current status.

[kpiwko]

Not correct. There is a RHSoC project for integrating Robotium into Arquillian, not Roboletric. It's still in early stage now.

However, in order to do that, we might be using RoboElectric eventually.

This is how I imagine test case:

@RunWith(Arquillian.class)

@Deployment AndroidArchive() {

//ShrinkWrap support for APK, stay tuned I might have something in the magic pocket

}

@Robotium

Solo solo;

@Test

@AndoidTest

public void test() {

    // this is either compiled into InstrumentationTestCase2 transparently to user, similar as we do for GWT

   // or we could use Roboletric and then robotium support is questionable

    solo.XYZ()

}

Current Android Extension does:

* Start emulator/real device

* Allows you to inject AndroidDevice controller into test

* Has support for Drone

So it can be used in conjuction with previous.

[aslak]

aa, yes.. sorry, mixed the names