Avoid Gradle Duplication in Multi-Module Android

When you have an Android project with many modules, you may find a lot of the gradle configuration being duplicated…

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Paging Library 3 and Content Provider

I needed to display the contents of a Android content provider in a recyclerview with pagination. I also wanted to…

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Is AspectJ Still Useful for Android? Part 2

In the first part of this post, I showed some ways that AspectJ would be useful in android development when it comes…

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Is AspectJ Still Useful for Android? Part 1

For Java projects I sometimes use AspectJ for various tasks, but for Android projects I initially decided against using it.…

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Checking for Artifactory in a Jenkins Pipeline

One of my projects uses the Artifactory as the repository manager. Unfortunately when doing a Jenkins pipeline build, I sometimes…

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Espresso Idling Resource for RecyclerView Data Changes

I was having a problem with using Android Espresso to test a RecyclerView when it’s data was updated. This is…

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Restart Android Activity with ActivityScenario

I was writing an instrumentation test which required restarting the activity during a test. As I was trying out the…

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Update Your Fake AndroidInjector

Using Dagger 2 for dependency injection means that you can inject fake / mock objects for testing. I had been…

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Crashlytics and Android: Clean Way to Use Custom Crash Reports?

I was implementing Firebase Crashlytics for crash reporting for an Android app, and came across their documentation for customizing the reports. Having things…

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