With my presentation about the Android Maven Plugin at AnDevCon coming up shortly and a huge bunch of changes in the plugin recently is was time to update the Android development chapter in the free book Maven: The Complete Reference. … Read more →
Despite being considered immature and/or a waste of time by many, automated testing of Android applicationis possible. Arguably it should be in the repertoire of any serious Android developer, but today I am not going to delve into this discussion … Read more →
A long time ago I started to use continuous integrations (CI) servers starting with anthill and moving via Apache Continuum and Atlassian Bamboo to Hudson. Since then I feel that a project without CI builds is missing a crucial bit … Read more →
After a great start on Monday and Tuesday AnDevCon really got started for me with doing my presentations. Guess how I went?
No matter if you were able to attend my presentation at AnDevCon 2011 or not, here are the presentation files for all of you to enjoy: Taking Advantage of Apache Maven for Android Development Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Continuous … Read more →
I have updated the Maven Android SDK Deployer with support for the full release of the 3.0 platform of the Android SDK so that all Maven users can build their tablet apps before the open source built jars get into … Read more →
With the new release of Android API level 10 also know as platform 2.3.3 Near Field Communication NFC has come even more to the center stage than previously. It seems like a surge of NFC devices and usages is about … Read more →
Last week it seemed like the right people came together to get stuff done. You see, I had multiple attempts during the last year getting the no_aop jar for Google Guice 2.0 into Maven central and somehow things just did … Read more →
With the release of the Android platform 2.3 aka Gingerbread a while ago us developers got a great tools into our hands: StrictMode. Unfortunately if you application still needs to be run on on older versions of Android you are … Read more →
So last time I explained how to set up Proguard in your Maven build for your Android application without getting yourself into trouble with regards to different operating systems or with automatically saving your mapping file in case you use … Read more →