diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index cd003ef45d..cd691b6b3a 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 .travis.yml merge=ours
+README.md merge=ours
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 64d7bc198a..6bc901d750 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -27,9 +27,12 @@ android:
   - extra-android-m2repository
   - sys-img-armeabi-v7a-$ANDROID_TARGET
 script:
-- "./gradlew build jacocoTestReport assembleAndroidTest"
-- chmod a+x codestyle.sh
-- "./codestyle.sh"
+  - ./gradlew build jacocoTestReport assembleAndroidTest
+  - echo no | android create avd --force -n test -t $ANDROID_TARGET --abi $ANDROID_ABI
+  - emulator -avd test -no-skin -no-audio -no-window &
+  - android-wait-for-emulator
+  - adb shell setprop dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags v=n,o=v
+  - ./gradlew connectedCheck
 notifications:
   webhooks:
     urls:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5d21721395..9fd72a74dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/fossasia/open-event-android.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/fossasia/open-event-android)
-[![codecov.io](https://codecov.io/github/fossasia/open-event-android/coverage.svg?branch=master)](https://codecov.io/github/fossasia/open-event-android?branch=master)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/fossasia/open-event-android.svg?branch=shipping)](https://travis-ci.org/fossasia/open-event-android)
+[![codecov.io](https://codecov.io/github/fossasia/open-event-android/coverage.svg?branch=shipping)](https://codecov.io/github/fossasia/open-event-android?branch=shipping)
 [![todofy badge](https://todofy.org/b/fossasia/open-event-android)](https://todofy.org/r/fossasia/open-event-android)
 [![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/fossasia/open-event-android](https://badges.gitter.im/fossasia/open-event-android.svg)](https://gitter.im/fossasia/open-event-android?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
 
@@ -81,6 +81,20 @@ Before you begin, you should already have the Android Studio SDK downloaded and
 - Timber
 - Google Gson
 
+## Branches and Contribution policy
+We have the following branches   
+ * **master**   
+	 All development goes on in this branch. If you're making a contribution,
+	 you are supposed to make a pull request to _master_.
+	 PRs to master must pass a build check and a unit-test (_app/src/test_) check on Travis
+ * **stable**   
+	 Every few days (after some contributions have come to _master_), we merge
+	 master to stable. PRs from _master -> stable_ will have to pass a build check,
+	 a unit-test check, AND a instrumentation test (_app/src/androidTest_) on Travis.
+ * **shipping**   
+   This contains shipped code. After significant features/bugfixes are accumulated on stable, we make a version update, and make a release.
+	 All tagged commits on _shipping_ branch will automatically generate a release on Github with a copy of ***fDroid-debug*** and ***GooglePlay-debug*** apks.
+
 ## A note about Codestyle
 Please read our [CODESTYLE](CODESTYLE.md) carefully. Pull requests that do not match the style will be rejected.