Team Tools Roundup

By Dana Jones

Our distributed team uses some really interesting tools to do the work we do. Check out our tool roundup to find some new tools to try yourself.

Here's Where Collective Idea Will Be Over the Next Few Months

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We’re participating in or attending conferences and events all around the country. See when and if we’ll be in a city near you!

How We Develop Mobile Applications - Pt 3 - Android

By Victoria Gonda and Joshua Kovach

Learn how to use Test-Driven Development to interact with a remote JSON API using Retrofit, Moshi, and RxJava

How We Develop Mobile Applications - Pt 2 - Android

By Joshua Kovach and Victoria Gonda

Now that you know what your mobile application will do and look like, it’s time to get your various environments set up. Here’s our list of things we check off at Collective Idea for creating an Android app.

How We Develop Mobile Applications

By Tim Bugai

Developing a mobile application that works on both iOS and Android takes a bit of work. Here are some best practices to get you going.

Retrofitting Espresso

By Joshua Kovach

You don’t need an IdlingResource, and sleep() is fickle. Make Espresso wait for your observables running on background schedulers with this one cool trick!

Your User Can’t Click Your Floating Action Button

By Victoria Gonda

An easy way to make your Android app’s main action more accessible for people using screen readers.

Stubbing your Android Intents

By Victoria Gonda

When we stub an intent, we are able to intercept it so the intent is never sent to the system, and specify how it should respond. This can be helpful in your Android tests when you need to know if an intent was sent, but you don’t actually need the Activity to start. This can be accomplished by using espresso-intents.

Testing for Android Intents Using Espresso

By Victoria Gonda

Using espresso-intents for testing Android Activity Intents