As mentioned, I spoke at the Dutch Android User Group at the end of June, with the title "Building, Testing & Deploying Android Apps with Jenkins." There was a big turnout and I had a great time at the event, including the meal which was a nice change from the stereotypical…
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For a long time — probably since I configured my WLAN access point with a long and complex password (to the annoyance of visitors) — I've been using the input command on the Android shell to automate the entry of commonly-used or annoying-to-type text on my phone. Running the command adb…
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In web development, there's a well-known problem called the "flash of unstyled content" — as a page loads, its content is initially rendered unstyled by the browser, but a split-second later the appearance may change drastically once the CSS stylesheets have loaded, parsed and been applied. In Android apps there can…
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A while back, the Dutch Android User Group invited me to talk at their Better Builds event on Thursday 27th of June. The group have done a great job of organising, especially as they've also lined up Eric LaFortune, the creator and developer of ProGuard. He'll be speaking about ProGuard and…
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