Oreo, Nougat, Marshmallow and Lollipop: effective Android testing in 2019

Today, when more than half of Internet traffic in the world comes from mobile devices, the question of effective testing for mobile platforms is more acute than ever. Last summer I showed new Docker images for testing mobile web and Android applications using Selenoid. In recent months, I have been approached by many people with questions about how and for what purposes these images can be used and what are the limitations. In this report, I would like to elaborate on that.

Agenda

1) What Android images consist of and how they work
2) what are the system requirements and resource consumption of such images
3) how to test several builds of your Android application in parallel
4) how to test mobile web with Chrome Mobile
5) how to build an Android image with custom settings in 5 minutes using ready-made scripts