CI for Android Using Jenkins

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Jenkins runs a one-compile-then-parallel-test pipeline that triggers on GitHub pull requests, copies built APK artifacts to downstream jobs, and reports pass/fail so merges block on failing checks; plugins actually used include Android emulator plugin, GitHub pull request builder, JUnit reporting and the copy-artifact step. Tests split into unit, component, integration and blackbox shards (espresso hitting real servers), with 1700 unit tests and emulators that boot in ~35–40s; Spoon captures useful screenshots for flaky UI failures and the system works in production.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 3:10What is Jenkins
3. 8:30Logs
4. 12:56Running individual tests
5. 16:18Overview
6. 16:49Testing Pyramid
7. 20:42App Flow
8. 22:13Continuous Jobs
9. 23:44Trigger
10. 24:53Continuous Delivery
11. 26:27Server Tests
12. 30:07Pipeline View
13. 31:04Source Code Management
14. 34:32Jenkins Executor
15. 34:51Multi Job
16. 36:48Matrix Plugin
17. 38:39Android Emulator Plugin
18. 41:19Android Emulator Pros Cons
19. 44:50Mac Mini Setup

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