Gradle provides two built-in mechanisms for tracing your build: –profile and –scan. The former produces a simple HTML report of task execution times. You can get a rough idea of where time was spent but are unlikely to glean any real insights. The latter sends a detailed report to Gradle’s servers (or to a Gradle…
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Major version updates to libraries solve the API warts of old and bring shiny new APIs to address previous shortcomings—often in a breaking fashion. Updating an Android or Java app is usually a day or two affair before you reap the benefits. Problems arise, however, when other libraries you depend on have transitive dependencies on…
Every day new Java code is written for Android apps and libraries which is plagued with an infectious disease: Hungarian notation. The proliferation of Hungarian notation on Android is an accident and its continued justification erroneous. Let’s dispel its common means of advocacy: “The Android Java style guide recommends its use“ There is no such…
Okio’s BufferedSink is a high-level abstraction for writing binary and character data as bytes. Its design stems from frustrations with the JDK’s java.io.* and java.nio.* libraries. At Droidcon Montreal last year I gave a presentation comparing it with the former, but also showcased Okio’s concept of a segment and how it enables the library to…
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This post was published externally on Square Corner. Read it at https://developer.squareup.com/blog/better-parameterized-tests-with-burst.