The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 82 (December 1-7)

In the new digest, automation of testing iOS applications, a new series of “mouse programming” in Swift, Kotlin for Android and localization of applications for the Chinese market, the history of fabulous failures and a new framework for hybrid applications from AppGyver. In general, a lot of things different and interesting.

Automate testing of iOS applications using Calabash and Cucumber

In the process of developing any application, there comes a time when, due to the growth of functionality, labor costs for regression testing become excessively large. Another reason for the considerable labor intensity of testing iOS applications (as well as any other mobile applications) is the diversity of the line of supported devices and OS versions, the need to test in landscape and portrait modes, as well as under different conditions of connection to the Internet. The desire to optimize the testing process leads us to the need for its full or partial automation.

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Mobile phones and total NSA surveillance: how it works

Another vector of NSA attacks is mobile OS and applications. As it turned out, the special service has access to a lot of data on smartphones: lists of contacts and calls of subscribers, as well as their SMS and GPS data. To do this, the NSA gathered teams of hackers, each of which was engaged in hacking one of the popular OS.

"Programming a mouse" in Swift part 2 - navigation

Developing the theme of the previous article, I write about programming navigation between the windows of your application using a minimum of code. Immediately I want to mention, the article is written for beginners, if you are an experienced developer in this business - it is unlikely she will give you something.