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Robotium is an open source testing framework for Android applications. It makes it easy to write complex black-box test cases. Test driven development is a methology where tests are written before the actual application.

1. Write a testcase
2. Watch it failing
3. Write the actual source code in you application which enables the test to pass
4. Watch the test passing
5. Go back to step 1

The following video gives you an introduction into Robotium:

I will definitely use Robotium for my future Android projects. It is really worth having a look at it.

There is another interersting video:

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Here are the JavaFX Links of the Week 1, February 2010:

Jim Weaver sums up the Oracle news this week nice and succinctly: ‘We will invest heavily in JavaFX‘.

The JavaFX tutorial has been updated to include a gentler introduction to data binding and triggers, with a new chapter devoted exclusively to “the basics”. Also, apparently there are plans to include a more advanced article discussing this topic also.

Want tabs in your JavaFX application? Well, today’s your lucky day as toumaille has posted exactly this. His tabbed pane control appears to be well thought out, and may be of use to people out there, certainly until there is an official tab control in JavaFX.

Drew, carrying on his investigation into JavaFX and physics, has put up a JavaFX applet of a very, very simple platform game using real physics.

Exadel released a new version of their JavaFX Plug-In for Eclipse, taking it up to version 1.2.1.

Jim Weaver introduces an interesting visualisation developed in JavaFX by Nik Silver. You can go directly to the visualisation if you are interested in playing with it.

Simon Morris has put up a page that contains all of the demos he wrote whilst writing his book ‘JavaFX in Action’.

Pedro Duque Vieira has written about how he has embedded a JavaFX scene into a Swing application.

Krishna Kishore has created a JavaFX application that grows/animates flowers onto the screen. It’s a rather nice effect, and shows the power of the language given Krishna admits creating this program just to learn the language.

(via jonathangiles.net)

For everybody who likes to learn the Java programming language or who is forced to learn Java I have found a great online tutorial teaching you the essence of Java programming. Specially students should pay attention to this course as it gives a really good introduction to the Java programming language.

The online course can be found here.

Enjoy learning Java and afterwards take a look at JavaFX.