Tag: android
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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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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 […]
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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, […]