From the course: Building Android Apps with AWS
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AWS Device Farm
- [Instructor] As an Android developer, you've undoubtedly run into problems with device-specific errors and crashes that can be really difficult to debug because of the huge number of devices that run your app. Well, you can actually test on a large number of real, physical devices using AWS Device Farm. Device Farm is a service that lets you run automated tests for your app or even control real devices remotely in real time using a browser. In order to perform the automated testing, you start by uploading your APK, and then you upload the test that you want to perform, and then your app gets installed on an array of devices that you choose from the list. It runs the test and collects the results for you, and then it uninstalls your app off of the device. And actually, over here in the Developer Guide, it lists the different test formats that you can use. It's just got some of the common test formats right there. If you want to use the remote access option, then you upload your APK…
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