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… Read More
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… Read More
Rough cut of Gradle Recipes for Android now available
My latest book, Gradle Recipes for Android, is now available as a “Rough Cut” at O’Reilly. You can get it at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032656.do. Rough cuts are preliminary versions of O’Reilly books, which are released while a book is still in progress, without special effort taken for formatting or anything else. In this case, however, the rough… Read More
Carlos Ray and Spring’s RestTemplate
Normally I prefer causing trouble to getting in trouble, but this time the temptation is just too great. In my last blog post, I described how I made an Android app that was a front-end on the ICNDB web site, the Internet Chuck Norris Database, only to receive a take-down email from Patton Boggs, LLP,… Read More