(excuse me) bump!
On Saturday, December 8, 2012 12:11:28 PM UTC, Mihai Badea wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I would like to create a launch configuration, to run any activity with
> arguments, for quick manually interactive testing.
>
> I have one Android Application with many activities. Some of them are
> chained in a wizard, each activity is a step, so they are launched from one
> another, with put extras in the intent as arguments for the next step. I
> would like to quickly reach the read marked step marked in the flow below,
> in other words I would like to launch directly an activity towards the
> end of my wizard, without having to go through all the previous wizard
> steps.
>
> [extras] [...] [...] * [extras]
> * [...] [...]
> Activity_1 --------> Activity_2 --> [...] --> Activity_6* ---------->
> Activity_7 *--> [...] --> Activity_9
>
> I managed to create a run configuration that launches the activity I want.
> But I can't find how to define the extras in the run config, and without
> arguments running that activity doesn't make sense.
>
> To create a run configuration for a different activity I added a LAUNCHER
> intent-filter in AndroidManifert.xml:
> <activity
> android:name=".Activity_7"
> android:label="@string/label_activity_7" >
> <meta-data
> android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
> android:value="com.example.hello.activity_6"
> />
> <intent-filter>
> <action
> android:name="android.intent.action.WHATEVER_ELSE_THAN_MAIN_TO_AVOID_ICON_IN_LAUNCHER"
>
> />
> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"
> />
> </intent-filter>
> </activity>
>
> I am following two paths that I think might achieve what I want - but so
> far to no avail:
>
> *1. Trying to use ActivityManager in the ADB shell to launch the
> activity, then try to fit these parameters in the launch configuration file:
> *
>
> ~ $ adb shell
> $ am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -c
> android.intent.category.LAUNCHER -n com.example.hello/Activity_7 -e
> "param_1" "foo" -e "param_2" "boo"
>
> Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN
> cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=com.example.hello/.Activity_7
> (has extras) }
>
> OK this worked fine in ADB Shell. I launched directly the 7th step in my
> wizard, with params: param_1=foo, param_2=boo and I can now manually test
> directly the activity I am working on. I didn't have to go jumping hoops
> through all previous 6 steps of the wizard so I can reach where I want and
> have a play at the UI.
>
> Now I need to enter this params somehow in "Eclipse->Run->Run
> Configurations...->Android Application". Seems there's no means to to
> that.
> Trying to edit directly the launch file from
> "workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.debug.core\.launches\Activity_2.launch"xml
> file:
>
> [...]
> <launchConfiguration
> type="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.debug.LaunchConfigType">
> <intAttribute key="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.action" value="1"/>
> <stringAttribute key="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.activity"
> value="com.example.hello.Activity_2"/>
> <stringAttribute key="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.commandline" value=""/>
> [...]
>
> No matter what I wrote in the value of
> "com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.commandline" or whatever other
> "com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.*" attributes I added, I could not manage a
> proper activity launch with extras.
>
> I have no idea why I don't find this feature, it seems quite basic in an
> IDE, that when you have run configurations for software with various entry
> points, you should have a means to pass arguments to them too?
>
> *2. Android JUnit Test*
>
> I need interactive testing. I want to play myself with the UI and see how
> the user experience feels like. JUnit tests can do UI automation, monkey
> and other UI stuff, but what I want from it is to start the activity I want
> and then give me the control for a while.
> So far I didn't find interactive support in Android Unit Test. Does such a
> feature exist?
>
> Many thanks for your reading this and any helpful thoughts you might have.
> Mihai
>
>
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