diff --git a/.github/workflows/swift.yml b/.github/workflows/swift.yml
index ea175a30..a50450c4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/swift.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/swift.yml
@@ -1,21 +1,38 @@
 name: Swift
-on: [push]
-jobs:
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [master]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
 
+jobs:
   android:
     name: Android
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
+        os: ['ubuntu-24.04', 'macos-15-intel']
         swift: ['6.2.3', 'nightly-6.3']
         arch: ['aarch64', 'x86_64', 'armv7']
         sdk: ['28', '29', '31', '33']
-    runs-on: macos-15
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     timeout-minutes: 30
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - uses: skiptools/actions/setup-skip@v1
+        with:
+          install-swift-android-sdk: true
+          gradle-version: 'none'
+          swift-version: ${{ matrix.swift }}
+          swift-android-sdk-version: ${{ matrix.swift }}
       - name: "Build Swift Package for Android"
         run: |
-          brew install skiptools/skip/skip || (brew update && brew install skiptools/skip/skip)
-          skip android sdk install --version ${{ matrix.swift }}
           ANDROID_NDK_ROOT="" ANDROID_SDK_VERSION=${{ matrix.sdk }} skip android build --arch ${{ matrix.arch }} --android-api-level ${{ matrix.sdk }}
+      - name: "Install and launch emulator"
+        run: |
+          skip android emulator create --android-api-level ${{ matrix.sdk }}
+          skip android emulator launch --background
+      - name: "Test Swift package on emulator"
+        run: |
+          skip android test --apk
+
diff --git a/Package.swift b/Package.swift
index 699b2763..605799b0 100644
--- a/Package.swift
+++ b/Package.swift
@@ -303,6 +303,12 @@ var package = Package(
               sdkVersionDefine
             ]
         ),
+        .testTarget(
+            name: "AndroidAppTests",
+            dependencies: [
+                "AndroidApp",
+            ]
+        ),
         .target(
             name: "AndroidContent",
             dependencies: [
diff --git a/Tests/AndroidAppTests/AndroidAppTests.swift b/Tests/AndroidAppTests/AndroidAppTests.swift
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..224bed3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/AndroidAppTests/AndroidAppTests.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import Testing
+import CSwiftJavaJNI
+import JavaTypes
+import SwiftJava
+import Android
+import AndroidOS
+import AndroidApp
+import AndroidContent
+
+@Test func testAndroidAppContext() throws {
+    #expect(AndroidContent.Context.fullJavaClassName == "android.content.Context", "unexpected class name")
+    #expect(AndroidApp.Application.fullJavaClassName == "android.app.Application", "unexpected class name")
+
+    let jvm: JavaVirtualMachine = try #require(JavaVirtualMachine.findCreatedJavaVM())
+    let env: JNIEnvironment = try jvm.environment()
+    let app: AndroidApp.Application = try #require(AndroidApp.Application.getApplicationContext(env: env))
+    let ctx: AndroidContent.Context = AndroidContent.Context(javaHolder: app.javaHolder) // cast android.app.Application to android.content.Context
+
+    let name = ctx.getPackageName()
+    #expect(name == "org.swift.test.swiftandroid", "test harness named by skip android test")
+
+    let info: AndroidContent.ApplicationInfo = ctx.getApplicationInfo()
+    #expect(info.processName == "org.swift.test.swiftandroid")
+    #expect(info.minSdkVersion == 28)
+
+    let looper: AndroidOS.Looper = ctx.getMainLooper()
+    #expect(looper.isCurrentThread() == false, "tests should not be running on main thread")
+
+    let activityManagerOb: JavaObject = ctx.getSystemService(ctx.javaClass.ACTIVITY_SERVICE)
+    let activityManager: ActivityManager = ActivityManager(javaHolder: activityManagerOb.javaHolder)
+    #expect(activityManager.javaClass.isUserAMonkey() == false, "aren't we all monkeys, though?")
+}
+
+extension AndroidApp.Application {
+    /// There's no public global way of accessing the Android Context, so we use `android.app.ActivityThread.currentActivityThread().getApplication()`
+    public static func getApplicationContext(env: JNIEnvironment) -> AndroidApp.Application? {
+        let jni: JNINativeInterface = env.pointee!.pointee
+
+        guard let activityThreadClass: jclass = jni.FindClass(env, "android/app/ActivityThread") else { return nil }
+
+        // lookup `currentActivityThread()` and call it
+        guard let currentActivityThread: jmethodID = jni.GetStaticMethodID(env, activityThreadClass, "currentActivityThread", "()Landroid/app/ActivityThread;") else { return nil }
+        guard let activityThread: jobject = jni.CallStaticObjectMethodA(env, activityThreadClass, currentActivityThread, []) else { return nil }
+
+        // lookup `getApplication()` and call it
+        guard let getApplication: jmethodID = jni.GetMethodID(env, activityThreadClass, "getApplication", "()Landroid/app/Application;") else { return nil }
+        guard let application: jobject = jni.CallObjectMethodA(env, activityThread, getApplication, []) else { return nil }
+
+        let contextHolder = JavaObjectHolder(object: application, environment: env)
+        // this could also be AndroidContent.Context (i.e., android.content.Context)
+        let ctx = AndroidApp.Application(javaHolder: contextHolder)
+        return ctx
+    }
+}
+
+extension JavaVirtualMachine {
+    public static func findCreatedJavaVM() -> JavaVirtualMachine? {
+        if let sharedJVM = try? JavaVirtualMachine.shared() {
+            return sharedJVM
+        }
+    
+        // manual method: Get the ambient JavaVM by invoking `JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs` by hook or by crook
+        typealias JavaVMPtr = UnsafeMutablePointer<JavaVM?>
+        typealias GetCreatedJavaVMs = @convention(c) (_ pvm: UnsafeMutablePointer<JavaVMPtr?>, _ count: Int32, _ num: UnsafeMutablePointer<Int32>) -> jint
+
+        // we need to get the host JVM using JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs, but it is not exported in jni.h,
+        // so we need to dlsym it from some library, which has changed over various Android APIs
+        // libnativehelper.so added in API 31 (https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/1320) to work around "libart.so" no longer being allowed to load
+        // FIXME: this might not work on API 29 and 30 specifically, since it is after Android started restricting access to the APIs but before they exposed JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs publicly
+        for libname in [nil, "libnativehelper.so", "libart.so", "libdvm.so"] {
+            let lib = dlopen(libname, RTLD_NOW)
+            guard let getCreatedJavaVMs = dlsym(lib, "JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs").map({ unsafeBitCast($0, to: (GetCreatedJavaVMs).self) }) else {
+                continue
+            }
+
+            var runningCount: Int32 = 0
+            var jvm: JavaVMPtr?
+            if getCreatedJavaVMs(&jvm, 1, &runningCount) == JNI_OK, let jvm = jvm {
+                return JavaVirtualMachine(adoptingJVM: jvm)
+            }
+        }
+
+        return nil
+    }
+}
+