Roborazzi with Takahiro Menju

The Developers' Bakery

We’re back in the Android development space with an episode about screenshot testing. I’m excited to have on stage Takahiro Menju, Android GDE and author of Roborazzi.

With Roborazzi, you can easily run screenshot tests for your Android app, without having to run a device at all. That’s possible because Roborazzi relies on Robolectric, which allows you to run Android tests directly on the JVM.

Join us in this episode as Takahiro walk us through the story of this library and how it can incredibly simplify screenshot testing for our Android apps.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.45 Episode Start
• 01.09 Takahiro’s Introduction
• 01.58 What is Roborazzi?
• 03.55 Roborazzi’s features
• 04.51 What Robolectric brings?
• 05.25 Running on the JVM vs Emulator
• 06.37 Saving CI and developers time
• 07.54 Who’s using Roborazzi?
• 09.09 DroidKaigi Conference App
• 10.23 Comparing screenshots with Robolectric
• 11.02 Challenges in building Roborazzi
• 13.43 Who’s maintaining Roborazzi?
• 14.29 The Android testing strategy
• 17.25 What’s broken in Android testing?
• 20.23 Screenshot Testing in other ecosystems
• 21.58 The story of Roborazzi
• 23.31 How to contribute to Roborazzi?
• 25.04 What’s next for Roborazzi?
• 26.40 Further reading
• 28.22 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• takahirom/roborazzi on GitHub
• Roborazzi Official Website
• Mentioned Resources:
  • How to use Roborazzi
  • Roborazzi FAQ
  • Roborazzi: Elevating Android Visual Testing to the Next Level
  • Robolectric Native Graphics and Roborazzi
  • DroidKaigi/conference-app-2023 on GitHub
• @takahirom on GitHub
• @_takahirom_ on Twitter

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter