Copy-pasting to the Android emulator
Occassionally, you run into the problem of wanting to copy-paste something from your machine to the Android emulator.
More …Seeding Firebase Databases
Ive been wanting to use one of the Firebase Databases in a project for a while now. I had some initial data which was in a json doc and wanted to seed the database with this data rather than manually entering it.
More …Inspecting android apk contents
An Android .apk is basically just a fancy zip file. If someone wanted to they could downnload your app, extract it and inspect your source code. DexGuard is a way to prevent this by obfuscating the code inside your apk.
More …Use Artifactory for private library archiving
I have recently started developing my own Kotlin libraries. I wanted a nice way of managing these library artifacts. Jeroen Mols has a nice discussion of how to push Gradle builds to your own locally hosted Artifactory server (which can all be done for free).
More …Finding Gradle Errors
Recently, I had an issue where my Android Studio build was failing with warnings, but no errors being shown in the build display.
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