What this book covers

Chapter 1, Beginning with the Basics, introduces you to the basic concepts of Maven and guides you to install all the required software you need to develop an Android application with Maven.

Chapter 2, Starting the Development Phase, sets the pace for the rest of the book. It discusses the first step to set up a minimal Maven configuration to compile and deploy an Android application to a real device or emulator.

Chapter 3, Unit Testing, covers several ways to write and run unit tests using various tools. It also explains the differences between unit and integration testing and the important role that both of them playing when developing an Android application.

Chapter 4, Integration Testing, completes the discussion about testing and presents three alternatives of running Android instrumentation tests, and also provides guidance on properly configuring Maven.

Chapter 5, Android Flavors, discusses the hot topic of maintaining multiple versions (free, ads-supported, and paid) of the same application. It describes the problem and then presents two ways to handle the case using Maven.

Chapter 6, Release Life Cycle and Continuous Integration, is all about releasing and deploying an Android application to a Maven repository. A bonus topic in this chapter discusses about automating everything using Jenkins, the most popular continuous integration engine.

Chapter 7, Other Tools and Plugins, is the last chapter and covers two very important topics: code quality with SonarQube and speeding up the development life cycle using the non-standard emulators provided by Android.