How to re-sign a Android apk file for testing

In the last days I got some questions about how to resign the apk file you want to test. And here is the answer. First some basic about the signatures in Android development! A signature is needed to identify the author of the Android application. A signature mostly contains information like:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Name of the organization
  • City
  • State
  • Country Code

For more information please have a look at the Android SDK developer guide http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html

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Robotium 3.0 is out there!

Since November 16th the latest version of Robotium 3.0 is released. This new version of Robotium provides several new and improved methods to test your Android app. As Renas Reda in the jayway blog says: “Robotium is now faster, lighter and more stable then ever!” I hope that is true because the previous versions of Robotium were really slow in the execution, even on real devices. So let’s see what’s new!

The following two methods are new to wait for views:

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