Aster

Android System Testing Environment and Runtime

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How to build and run ASTER

NOTE: the instructions are valid for GNU/Linux at the moment.

Prerequisites for Building ASTER

• specify environment variable JAVA_HOME, for example:

  echo 'export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun' >> ~/.bashrc
  

• ASTER is built upon MonkeyRunner, which is shipped in Android Open Source Project. To get the latest MonkeyRunner, please follow the instructions: Downloading the Source Tree.

• Assume $HOME/AOSP is the the directory containing all the files obtained through 'repo sync'

• You need OpenCV 2.3

Get Source

• The version control system is GIT:

  git clone https://github.com/kanru/aster
  

Build

• Prepare MonkeyRunner for the first time

  cd $HOME/AOSP
  TARGET_PRODUCT=generic make monkeyrunner
  

  Alternatively, if you already configured/build Android by 'source build/envsetup.sh', use the faster method

  cd $HOME/AOSP/sdk/monkeyrunner && mm
  

• Speficy framework path into local.properties for the first time

  cd aster
  echo 'framework.dir=$HOME/AOSP/out/host/linux-x86/framework' > local.properties
  

• Finally, build it:

  ant compile
  

Run ASTER

ant dist
dist/aster