I will base this post on the last article: Android ViewFlipper within TabHost for Tabs with different Views ... and better memory footprint, where we had a TabHost and a ViewFlipper. To test that our example is still working, we have to start the app, start the tab example, click on the ViewFlipper then change to Tab2 and press the button. Of course you can do this by hand if you must, which basically always happens when you're in the middle of development -unless you're doing test driven development. But later on, you don't really want to sit there and click a lot, or even worse, enter text with your thick fingers on a tiny android device screen. So a good idea to test the UI is to get it automated in some way. That is where robotium comes into the game.Read more
