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This first post is dedicated to a wonderfull tool => Monkey ! If you had never heard of this tool, your life is turning better now. Monkey is a simple tool which allow to generate pseudo-random gestures , on a device or on an emulator . Shortly, you can in a few seconds simulate a user using your application, but a pretty stupid one (just as all users ?) because all his actions will be generated randomly. These actions won’t make any sense, but the aim here is to detect bugs in your app, and this can be very useful. Note 1 : This is absolutely not a substitute to other tests you should do (like unit tests…). Do what I say, not what I do  Note 2 : For this tut, I suppose you have one emulator or a device connected in debug mode (with ADB drivers installed). I won’t detail this part. Here we go, launching cmd, and browsing to [android-sdk-path]**/platform-tools. The basic command to use monkey is the following: adb shell monkey <options> For example, i

The first Forbes 400 Summit was surreal, amazing and, in the end, moving. We gassed up a Gulfstream 450 one warm September morning and flew one of the most successful recording artists of all time, Jay-Z, to meet the most successful investor of all time, Warren Buffett, on the latter’s home turf of Omaha, Neb. The intent was to capture their very different perspectives on success and wealth and to talk about the social obligations that come with each. They ended up finding out they had more in common than anyone would have expected between a 40-year-old rapper from the Brooklyn projects and the 80-year-old sage of compounded returns. The main event was an hourlong, videotaped talk at Buffett’s office building. (What you read here comes from that session.) But first there was lunch. The early crowd at the Hollywood Diner (“Where the customer is the star”) was unmoved by Buffett, a fixture with his usual order of chicken-fried steak with extra mashed potatoes. When Ja