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  • I have searched almosty everywhere. I have collected many tutorials like these on the bottom of this post. But none of the tutorials tells me how to start writing anything in Robotium while I have only .apk installed on my phone :( So... 1. I installed ADT -> It's empty ADT (No projects) 2. Then what? Add Robotium library? Where when I do not have any Application Project like there is on tutorials :( Should I write Robotium test? But how when I don't have any Application Project. Only .apk Tutorials said that I should create test Project for my Application Project. But I do not have any Application Project! I only have .apk on my phone which i really, really want to test :( - Robotium Getting Started https://code.google.com/p/robotium/wiki/Getting_Started   - Set Up Android Working Environment - Design Simple Android Calculator Application - Test Android Calculator White Box Testing - Test Android Calculator APK Black Box Testing - Common Robotium Issues- Video Tutorial https://code.google.com/p/robotium/wiki/RobotiumTutorials   ---   http://www.slideshare.net/MindfireSolutions/android-automation-using-robotium   --- --- http://www.slideshare.net/mobilemarch/robotium-tutorial --- http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/Robotium/article.html

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    Robotium is meant for testing Android user interfaces for which you have the source code.  You only have the .apk, which is the finished Android application.  If you do not have the source code, Robotium is of no use to you.  The idea of Robotium is that you are testing your code and looking for problems to fix. It sounds like you are trying to automate a finished application.   I will hunt around for something to automate Android applications, and if I find something interesting, I'll update my answer.

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It looks like you want to run Robotium automated tests against a project for which you don't have access to the source. Sounds like you will want to follow instructions close to this: https://code.google.com/p/robotium/wiki/RobotiumForAPKFiles

Geoffrey Wiseman

I think that you first need to learn write Android apps. You seem to have never made any android apps. First Go through the basic tutorials to get Started with Android apps and then read the Tutorials of Robotium to undertand what they are talking about.

Rishabh Poddar

Is it that you only want to use Robotium for .apk testing? Robotium is mainly for the dev level testing. To get the maximum out of Robotium you should have a source code with you. In case you want to test the .apk file only, there are other tools too like Appium that are coming out well and are launched as OSS.

Vipul Gupta

An APK file is essentially a zip file (change extension and you would know that). It contains signing information. For testing on Android, the test and the APK under test, both should be  signed with the same key. So, you need to resign the APK file with your  debug key. In one of the help documents of Robotium, it is explained how to resign an APK file. (I can recollect that there is a tool. You can also do it manually using unzipping, jarsigner and zipalign) You can very well use Robotium in a pure black box manner. The only difference in case of code availability is that during building, the app code and test both automatically get signed with the same key. For black box (source coide of app not available), there are additional steps.

Rahul Verma

I think you should be going for a simple app for android first. Do it by "making your device(phone) a developer " . You can do this by going in About phone--> build number. Click on it 7,8 times. You'll be shown as an android developer. After that, follow steps for making an app. Try running it on emulator before your phone. Write the code properly. You can refer 'android developer' site for that(search On google) . Your get the concept of using robotium after that for sure.

Saloni Verma

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