I’ve been using GitHub for the first time recently, because we use it for work to store our code. While I had heard of GitHub before, I was never really part of the community (not even now). I have the means, because I write a lot of small Android apps which could benefit from being stored on GitHub, but I never felt the need or desire to open source my code.

But recently, I created my first GitHub project, android-accounts-mock is a simple test application to help you add accounts to your Android device. Examples of accounts are Facebook or your Google Account or your Twitter account. Android-accounts-mock doesn’t add those types of accounts to your phone though, it basically adds testing accounts to your list. The reason why you might want that is because accounts may be used in other parts of an app to pre-populate lists; for me it saves me a lot of pain in re-typing in long login emails over and over again.

I shared this project because there is clearly some ability for re-use amongst other Android developers, and because it can probably expand as a collaborative effort. It was pretty easy to do too – I like having these self-contained weekend style projects.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: android