I’ve been looking for a simple and inexpensive way to host my Kotlin library binaries for some time. Previously I have used JitPack, but there’s no Kotlin multi-platform support. I have tried Bintray in the past but found it to be over-complicated. So, I was left with no good solution for hosting my libraries. Then…
A couple months ago I wrote an article about an idea for Kotlin “Server-less” Functions. Unbeknownst to me, JetBrains was working on a similar project called Kotless. While not precisely what I had envisioned, this project does seem promising. For more information about Kotless, checkout the following KotlinConf video:
The Jetpack Compose library provides the ability to create declarative and reactive UIs written in Kotlin for Android. It’s another attempt to avoid XML layout files by allowing the creation of layouts in a DSL-esque manner. The library borrows heavily from cross-platform application frameworks like React Native and Flutter, but unlike those frameworks, it is…
It has been a hot minute since I posted about writing multi-module Lint rules so it’s time for a follow up. Today’s topic: suppressions! A quick recap of where we are: We have written a Lint rule that checks for usages of deprecated colours (including selectors) in XML files. The rule goes through all modules…
Of all the projects that I have worked on over the years, one thing they all have in common is the need to pass things around. Whether passing stuff to an Activity as Intent extras, a Fragment as arguments or its onSaveInstanceState, or even a ViewModel’s SavedStateHandle, the most common way to do it is…
Android has a lot of tools for developers and one that has been around for as long as I can remember is Android Debug Bridge (adb). It allows you to issue commands to an attached device, such as installing an app or starting an Activity. If I want to test deeplinks, for example, I can…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a script for making adb a little bit more interactive. The script makes the process of running an adb command much smoother if there are multiple devices attached by presenting a chooser. For example, when sending a deeplink: ➜ ~ deeplink https://zarah.dev Multiple devices found: 1 – R5CR7039LBJ…
Last year, I wrote about an extended adb script. The idea of the script is to make it really easy to issue an adb command even if there are multiple devices attached by presenting a chooser. For example, if I have two physical devices and an emulator and I want to use my deeplink alias,…
Being a perpetual RegEx n00b, one thing I keep on forgetting is that it is easy to get tripped up when extracting information from an input. I always forget that looking for a match does not really just give back just the matching values – they are instead contained in Groups. Matches and Groups and…
A few years ago, I wrote about writing a Lint rule to validate the format of TODO comments. Whilst I find that Lint is still difficult to grok, I have since learnt a little bit more that I feel a revisit of this rule is warranted. To recap, the rule enforces that all TODOs must…