Make Your Tool

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Make Custom Tool

We should create a new Android Studio project to build our own instrumentation tool.

• Create a no activity application.

  • Select the form factor Phone and Tablet.
  • Select the minimum SDK API 21 Android 5.0 (Lollipop).
  • Then add no activity to the application.

• Stop the instant run feature introduced by the new Android Studio (version >= 2).

  • Open the Gradle script build.gradle(Module: app) and remove the line compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'.
  • Do not follow the sync order enforced by Android Studio now.
  • Open the style resource res/values/styles.xml and change the parent value to parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light".
  • Still in res/values/styles.xml, remove the following lines:
    • <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    • <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    • <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
  • Open the Android manifest AndroidManifest.xml and change the android:theme to android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light".
  • sync the project now.

• Import the ProbeDroid API jar.
  Suppose our project path is PATH_WORKSPACE/MyProject.

  • Copy ProbeDroid.jar to PATH_WORKSPACE/MyProject/app/libs.
  • Back to Android Studio and switch to the Project Files panel. The jar can be seen in app/app/libs/ProbeDroid.jar directory.
  • Right click ProbeDroid.jar and select Add as Library.

• Start to code your own tool.
  Now we can refer to the javadoc for API usage. Also, you can check out the sample tool as the example.

• Build the instrumentation APK.

  • Refer to the upper toolbar and select Build -> Generated Signed APK... to build APK.

Now we finish the work to create our own instrumentation tool.