Preparing Your Application

As developers, we tend to get excited as our application nears completion. In fact, we get so enthusiastic about our application that we sometimes skip critical steps whose omission could prove detrimental to the success of our application in the Android Market. The purpose of this section is to help keep this enthusiasm in check by giving you a few tips, tricks, and items to consider before you begin the publishing process. In addition, this section spends some time covering the steps involved in dealing with licensing issues, preparing for the final deployment, and avoiding common gotchas.

Testing Your Application

Testing is the most important step in this chapter. It is critical and essential that you fully test your application before publication. Even though you have probably spent much time testing your application, several steps are still important before you release your application into the wild.