I’m continuing the visited conferences recap. Stay tuned. The connection to Paris is super easy from Amsterdam: the three hours plus train with the acceptable connection and nice restaurant. I also have a romantic feeling about Paris — it was my first big European city we discovered with my wife…

I visit nearby conferences or interesting events often. And usually, I share high-level summaries about the event, talks and other notable things. This is the experiment to share with the bigger group. Let’s see how it goes. You can find the official event page here with videos. The travelling from…

10 May 2022 UPDATE The plain kotlin modules just work. The issue is only with android modules right now. 15 February 2022 UPDATE The Android project deals with Kotlin Android plugin also. And, unfortunately, Kotlin test fixtures are not supported there fully yet. You can follow JetBrain ticket. I want…

Creator of a flaky UI test should bring a cake for the team during the week duration at least I love instrumental tests recently. With the robot pattern, we gain high maintainability. With the build scripts for emulator creation+setup and the additional tests restart if failed, we gain around 99%…

UPD: Most probably this article is not relevant anymore. The tooling involved and you don’t need to do anything when you’re on latest Android Studio/AS Plugin and Gradle. I’m super grateful to the reviewers of this post: Nelson Osacky, Andrey Mischenko and Mike Wolfson. Thank you, gentle people! Disclaimer: This…

(☝It is intentional misspelling from daemon) You probably read a great article from Svyatoslav Chatchenko about how to use the same daemon from Android Studio and console. However, if you started using Android Studio 3.5, after some mixed runs of the project from Android Studio and from the console, you…

This is a template for the letter to the business people in your company. It is slightly modified version of our project proposal. Please set numbers based on your project, user base and the current date. Please also drop sections or statements that are not relevant or different for your…

Our daily Gradle projects are dependent on Android. This is a fact! We have to use or CI plugins/CI built in functionality/bash scripts or Android SDK manager plugin from Jake Wharton for headache less CI. But if you follow updates for android build tools, you will notice that from the…