Android Unit Tests Requiring Context

Question

I am writing my first Android database backend and I\'m struggling to unit test the creation of my database.

Currently the problem I am encountering is obtaining a va

Answer 1

Extending AndroidTestCase and calling AndroidTestCase:getContext() has worked fine for me to get Context for and use it with an SQLiteDatabase.

The only niggle is that the database it creates and/or uses will be the same as the one used by the production application so you will probably want to use a different filename for both

eg.

  public static final String    NOTES_DB      = "notestore.db";
  public  static final String   DEBUG_NOTES_DB = "DEBUG_notestore.db";