I usually have only one device connected when I develop non-UI related parts of the app, but when it comes to UI, I tend to try out the app on as many devices as possible. There was a time when I actually had physical devices connected all the time (https://ivanmorgillo.com/2016/01/05/first-hardware-project-of-2016-device-holder/), but lately I have been…
Modules, modules everywhere
I have joined asanarebel.com as Senior Android developer at the beginning of February. Asana Rebel is a health and fitness app with workouts for different body and health goals, but all of them are yoga inspired. When I joined, the plan was to increase the team size and raise the code base overall quality, focusing…
Kotlin DSL Gradle files, multiple modules and shared variables
This doesn’t want to be a real article, but more a crash course about Kotlin DSL for Gradle. The crucial point is the possibility of migrating an existing project to the new Kotlin DSL for Gradle, in an incremental, modularized fashion. Below we have a pretty standard root project build.gradle file: https://gist.github.com/hamen/7fa25a3a7ad8452873051f7782c77db5 The parts that…
Android Library AAR and Javadoc
As an Android developer, I’m used to ask Android Studio/Intellij Idea for documentation constantly. I have even replaced the shortcut: now, it’s F1, the old-fashion help key. When I want to know about a method or a class, I hit F1 and the JavaDoc shows up: smooth. How does this works? Story time! The Catapush user…