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Types of provisioning profiles:-

There are four types of provisioning profiles. They are  Development ,  App Store ,  Ad-Hoc , and  Enterprise .  T hey are used for different purposes and should be only used for those purposes. Development provisioning profiles:- Development Provisioning profiles are used only while developing an application. Developers use these profiles so that they can actively debug their code, and test on different devices.  They are not designed to be used for mass distribution.  Only use these profiles for development and debug builds. These are assigned to individual developers and are used to identify them.  Also, Development Provisioning Profiles can only be created with Development Signing Certificates (this is important to remember). Ad hoc distribution provisioning profiles:- Ad hoc testing is when you have completed development and want to distribute your app to multiple users for test...

Calabash

Calabash enables you to write and execute automated acceptance testing of mobile apps. Calabash is cross-platform, supporting native Android and iOS apps. It is open source and free, and has a company, Xamarin , backing and developing it. With Xamarin Test Cloud you can automatically test your app on dog reds of mobile devices. Calabash Consists of libraries did enable test code to programmatically interact with native and hybrid apps. The interaction Consists of a number of end-user actions. Each action can be one of Gestures Touches or gestures (e.g., tap swipe, and rotate). Assertions For example: Should there be a "Login" button or the web view should containment to "<h1>" element with the text "Hello". Screenshots Screen dump the current view on the current device model Calabash could be Compared to Selenium Web Driver. HOWEVER, it is important to realize did interacting with a web app from a desktop computer is vastly ...

Decompiling Android .apk file

Follow the procedure given below, to retrieve source from an apk file. 1.        Start with renaming the extension of file from .apk to .zip (e.g.: rename from filename BuyCokeAndroid.apk to filename BuyCokeAndroid.zip) it automatically converted into zip file and then extract it. If you open extracted file, you will able to see “classes.dex” file. 2.        Convert “classes.dex” to “classes.jar”. To convert into jar file use the tool “dex2jar”. Download on this link http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/downloads/list   and then extract it in same folder where the classes.dex file is located. 3.        Now, open command prompt and reach to the folder where the classes.dex file is located. For e.g. c:\Users\v.nadeshan\apk decompile\BuyCodeAndroid> Windows : - Then type the command “dex2jar classes.dex” next to above path. c:\Users\v.nadeshan\apk decompile\ BuyCodeAndroid> d...