Apptimize QA Console for Android

For more information see the QA Console FAQ page.

Introduction

The Apptimize QA console is a framework that can be integrated into your mobile app. It enables you to preview variants in different combinations from all of your active feature flags and experiments on a simulator or device. This approach of QA works well for customers with large teams that would like to test hands-on while using the app. Integrating the QA console is a simple one-time process. Once the console is in place, it works by overriding your allocations and forcing your selected variants internally.

Note

The QA console is only intended to be integrated into debug/developer-build versions of your app and should not be included in releases to your end-users.

Integration

1. Download the latest release of the qaconsole.aar from here.

2. Create or open an Android Studio project.

3. Click File—> New —> New Module. In the window that appears, select Import .JAR/.AAR Package and click Next.

4. Expand Gradle Scripts and open build.gradle (for Module:app). Add implementation project (":qaconsole") dependencies.

5. Open the source for the main activity or the activity where you wish to integrate QAConsole.

6. Add a private variable for QAConsole

   private QAConsole qaConsole;

7. Initialize a new QAConsole in your onCreate() method

   qaConsole = new QAConsole(getApplicationContext(), “<apptimizeAppKey>”);

8. Open the Apptimize dashboard, create and then launch your experiments.

9. Now run your app on a device/emulator.

10. If you are running on device, shake the device to launch the Apptimize QA Console.

11. Alternatively, you can launch the Apptimize QA Console programmatically.

  // Add the following line to your onCreate method after initializing the qaConsole.
  console.isShakeGestureEnabled = false;

  // Call the launch method when you wish to display the console.
  console.launchQAConsoleActivity();

Notes

• In order to display Instant Updates while using the QA console to force specific variants, you will need to set ApptimizeOptions value setForceVariantsShowWinnersAndInstantUpdates(true) Boolean value to true and pass the options when calling Apptimize.setup. For example:

  final String appKey = "YourAppKey";
  final ApptimizeOptions options = new ApptimizeOptions();
  options.setForceVariantsShowWinnersAndInstantUpdates(false);
  // ... set any additional options here
  Apptimize.setup(self, appKey, options);