Android Testing in IntelliJ IDEA

Google’s Android site has some fairly detailed instructions for testing Android applications… from Eclipse. They were nice enough to supply a “Testing from Other IDEs” page, but that is nothing more than instructions on using Ant and the command line. Well, if you are using IntelliJ IDEA then you already believe the IDE is going to be a better tool than Ant for this. It’s easy to set up a test project in IDEA and get your tests running. Here are some simple instructions.

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Android and IDEA for the Eclipse Refugee

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Earlier this month I switched from writing my Android projects in Eclipse to writing them in IntelliJ IDEA. Overall the experience has been great, and I much prefer using IDEA to Eclipse for Android development. And now that IntelliJ IDEA 11 EAP (Early Access) has a visual layout window, there is almost no reason for me to write my Android apps in anything else. I wrote this post to help other users along their way when converting between the IDEs.

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