Month: April 2016
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Excluding Gradle Tasks with a Name Pattern
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Gradle build files in Android projects, which probably isn’t a big surprise given that I’m working on a book called Gradle Recipes for Android (coming soon to all your better ebook stores and (who knows?) maybe an actual, physical bookstore somewhere (but probably not), but you can…
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Retrofitting Groovy
I’m teaching an Android development class this week, and one of our primary references is the book Android 6 for Programmers, 3rd edition, which was released last December. One of the examples in the book accesses the Open Weather Map RESTful web service and builds a UI around the results, which is pretty much the…
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A Groovy approach to npm-gate
Recently the JavaScript community experienced a serious disruption when a developer removed one of his deployed libraries from the central npm server, an event now being referred to as npm-gate. I don’t want to get into the various ethical, moral, or legal issues about that here. Rather, I want to show how trivially the missing functionality…