[Android-development] Testing on Android

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi all,

This is just for your information. We have so far been mostly running unit 
tests on Android manually before releases and we've been doing various tests 
inside The Qt Company. But we decided to finally make thinks more reliable by 
running unit tests for Android in a regular automated fashion.
We'll be using the x86 emulator, simply because it's fast and will catch a lot 
of issues. Device testing will still be part of the release process (and 
please help us also in the future by testing with your devices, we have a 
bunch of them, but of course not all variations available on the market).

So right now we are trying to get the few remaining test cases that have so 
far been failing and known not to work to either work or skip them 
appropriately. Also here help is appreciated.
It's not entirely clear what the final setup will look like, right now we 
spend roughly 3.5 hours on a test run for qtbase, whereas other platforms take 
less than one hour. Maybe we can optimize androiddeployqt or something else, 
but at least we seem to be able to reliably run the tests :)

Cheers,
Frederik