https://jeroenmols.com/blog/Recent content in Blogs on Jeroen MolsHugo -- gohugo.ioeninfo@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)© 2024 Jeroen MolsThu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/11/14/full-stack-implementation/Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/11/14/full-stack-implementation/To conclude my series on full-stack development, this part will look at the implementation, design choices, what worked well and what didn’t. This builds on the to-do list project proposed in part 1 and the tech stack described in part 2.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/11/06/full-stack-technology/Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/11/06/full-stack-technology/One of my main drivers for this side project was to make all technology choices myself. To do that effectively, I would have to consider the pros and cons of different options and frankly learn many new things.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/10/27/full-stack-project/Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/10/27/full-stack-project/After pivoting my career to full-stack development, I missed the “depth” I used to have on mobile. So to build out more foundational full-stack knowledge, I decided to build a few side projects.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/09/20/website-refresh-24/Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2024/09/20/website-refresh-24/After 7 years, it was time to migrate my old Jekyll website to a new more modern platform. Read on to learn why, how, and what the main challenges were in this process.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/07/24/vpn-development/Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/07/24/vpn-development/Are you using a VPN on your mobile device? Do you need to disable that to access your development web server over MDNS on your mobile device?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/06/26/prs-and-commits/Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/06/26/prs-and-commits/As developers, we love to build cool things and ship them as fast as reasonably possible. And to get that done, here are a few things you can do to “game the system”.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/06/09/interactive-architecture-diagram/Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/06/09/interactive-architecture-diagram/Tired of building un-versionable, lifeless architecture diagrams? Wouldn’t it be great if you could add your diagram to Git, embed it in your documentation, and have clickable elements?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/03/28/privacy-friendly-rsvp/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/03/28/privacy-friendly-rsvp/Planning an event can be stressful, and the last thing you need is worrying about your guests’ privacy. But don’t worry, I’ve got you covered with a privacy-friendly RSVP option.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/02/06/multiple-ssh-keys/Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/02/06/multiple-ssh-keys/Looking to configure multiple SSH keys on the same computer? For instance to use a different SSH key for your public and enterprise Github contributions.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/01/29/remove-trackers/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/01/29/remove-trackers/These past years I’ve grown to be more privacy-aware. And while this post isn’t about how I’m increasing my personal privacy, I’d like to talk about how I’m increasing yours.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/01/25/development-server-emulator/Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2023/01/25/development-server-emulator/How can you connect your app on an Android emulator to a development server running on the localhost of your computer? The problem # Since Android emulators create their own virtual network, they cannot access devices on your local network.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/12/17/pull-files-android/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/12/17/pull-files-android/Trying to get a large number of files from your Android phone, but Android File Transfer freezing up? Here’s what I learned trying to pull ~170 Gb from my Pixel phone.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/11/26/mastodon-verify-github/Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/11/26/mastodon-verify-github/Looking to get a fancy verified checkmark on Mastodon for your Github account? This post details how I made this work. Steps # Before I get started, huge thanks to Simon Wilson for inspiring me with the original idea.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/11/19/react-local-development/Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/11/19/react-local-development/Traveling by train or plane and want to test your react app on your mobile phone? This quick post explains how to access your react development server from your phone without a Wi-Fi connection.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/04/27/workmanager-crash/Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/04/27/workmanager-crash/WorkManager is great to schedule background work on Android. However, since scheduled work lives outside of the app lifecycle, you might run into unexpected crashes.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/02/23/pull-request-reviews/Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2022/02/23/pull-request-reviews/In the past years, my thoughts on pull request reviews have evolved considerably. Given that creating and reviewing pull requests are a core part of our work, let’s talk about those.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2021/03/24/migrate-artifacts-mavencentral/Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2021/03/24/migrate-artifacts-mavencentral/With JCenter shutting down, many are migrating to Maven Central. And while there are many posts on how to publish new artifacts, also all existing artifacts should be migrated away from JCenter.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2021/03/17/share-code-kotlin-multiplatform/Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2021/03/17/share-code-kotlin-multiplatform/While Android supports most Java language features, it doesn’t support every API that Java provides. On the other hand, Kotlin multiplatform only allows sharing code across all targets (commonMain), not a subset of targets (commonJvm).https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2021/02/04/migratingjcenter/Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2021/02/04/migratingjcenter/This week JFrog - out of nowhere - announced to completely remove their Maven repository. Since they’ll pull it offline already by May 2021 (!!!) it’s time to urgently migrate away.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2021/01/05/yearinreview/Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2021/01/05/yearinreview/Well… I don’t really know where to start this time. 2020 was quite the rollercoaster, with many downs… but fortunately also a few amazing ups. Let’s focus on the good stuff.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/12/02/inproject-maven/Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/12/02/inproject-maven/Short, powerful post on how to test the release version of libraries directly within a project without having to deploy them to Maven first. As a bonus, there will also be an open-source example showcasing all of this in action.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/11/11/library-dependencies/Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/11/11/library-dependencies/Ever had a build failure while integrating an SDK? Wonder how you can avoid your SDK customers having dependency conflicts? How many transitive dependencies should your SDK have?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/11/04/library-modularization/Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/11/04/library-modularization/With modularization being all the hype, should you also modularize an SDK? Are fat aar files really needed? And how do you prevent internal APIs from being exposed on your public interface?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/10/28/library-gettingstarted/Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/10/28/library-gettingstarted/Having switched to Android SDK development over the past year, I’ve run into quite a few interesting and unexpected challenges. So how does library development differ from app development?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/02/19/dokka-code-documentation/Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/02/19/dokka-code-documentation/A great way to make your library easier to use it to generate code documentation for its public interface. The default way to do this in Kotlin is to generate KDoc using the official Dokka plugin.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/01/09/yearinreview/Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2020/01/09/yearinreview/Getting up without being rushed, cycling my kids to school, cooking healthy salads for lunch, kids running into my arms when they get home… I’m quite happy with my new daily routine!https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/09/12/featureflagsarchitecture/Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/09/12/featureflagsarchitecture/Now that we know how feature flags can help us release faster, it’s time to dive into the actual implementation details. How can we easily define feature flags?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/08/20/featureflagshowtouse/Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/08/20/featureflagshowtouse/Empowered with what feature flags are and why they are useful, let’s see how we can actually integrate them into an app. And how can we roll them out to our users?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/08/13/featureflags/Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/08/13/featureflags/A key ingredient to speed up modern software development is feature flags. But what is a feature flag precisely? Why should you care about them? How do you integrate them into your codebase?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/08/06/lessonsleaddeveloper/Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/08/06/lessonsleaddeveloper/Three years ago, we decided ramp up internal app development at Philips Hue. After interviewing candidates (78!) for six months, I became the lead Android developer of the freshly hired Android team.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/07/17/androidqgestures/Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/07/17/androidqgestures/From Android Q onwards devices can now operate in a fully gestural system navigation mode. In that mode, there is no longer an on-screen back button, instead users can swipe from both edges to navigate back.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/07/03/adaptiveicon/Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/07/03/adaptiveicon/Your icon is one of the most important assets in your app. With a bit of luck, users might even put it on their main launcher screen!https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/06/12/modularizationtips/Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/06/12/modularizationtips/Wrapping up this series on modularization I’d like to share some of the things we’ve learned at Philips Hue while going through this process the past year.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/04/24/modularizationhow/Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/04/24/modularizationhow/Now that we have a clear idea of how a modularized app could look like how can this be applied to an existing app? Part four will dive deeper into how existing apps can be sliced and how you can gradually migrate to a fully modularized architecture.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/04/02/modularizationexample/Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/04/02/modularizationexample/With a clear view on how multi-module apps should be architected, let’s dive into a real-life practical example. We’ll discover how the architecture results in a clear application structure, how navigation is handled, how to use staged rollouts, how to test everything and even look at a production app that is using this architecture.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/03/18/modularizationarchitecture/Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/03/18/modularizationarchitecture/Now that we’ve established that modularization is a really good thing to strive for, how should a modularized app look like? How are the different modules connected?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/03/06/modularizationwhy/Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/03/06/modularizationwhy/Modularizing your app seems to be all the hype these days. But why should you actually care? What are the benefits for you and your team?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/02/20/tacklelegacy/Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/02/20/tacklelegacy/Are you living the dream? Is your code so clean it makes your eyes just tear a little? Can’t think of anything you would still like to refactor?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/01/17/livedatajunit5/Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/01/17/livedatajunit5/Architecture components are one of the most exciting things that happened to Android in the past years. But how do you effectively go about and testing this?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/01/01/yearinreview/Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2019/01/01/yearinreview/Sitting in our own couch, in our own house, kids safely asleep upstairs,… The road here was brutal, but the result is extraordinary. The past year was (hopefully) the busiest year of my entire life.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/12/06/fixthetest/Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/12/06/fixthetest/Learning from analyzing code is one of the greatest ways to improve your skills. Can you spot the mistakes in the tests below? This post brings a fun little quiz for both testing gurus as novices, with a deep dive into the how and why of awesome tests.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/11/01/kotlinstackoverflow/Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/11/01/kotlinstackoverflow/Java interop is one of the best features of the Kotlin language, yet sometimes this also can cause unforeseen issues… Puzzle # Disclaimer, the example below is a consequence of legacy code and only serves to demonstrate a Kotlin puzzler.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/10/05/kotlinconf18/Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/10/05/kotlinconf18/Was really great visiting Kotlinconf this year and I wanted to do a quick post to link to all of it’s wonderful content. Conference slides # While you will be able to find all recordings here, I often find it useful to be able to quickly scan through the slides.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/09/25/kotlinpuzzler/Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/09/25/kotlinpuzzler/Kotlin is an incredibly enjoyable, concise and powerful programming language. Yet sometimes also a bit confusing… Puzzle # Have a look at the simple class below.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/08/02/phonestatepermission/Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/08/02/phonestatepermission/This is a post-mortem where the very dangerous permission, READ_PHONE_STATE, unintentionally sneaked into our app. Here’s how this could happen, how we debugged and finally how we solved it.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/07/16/androidstudioshortcuts3/Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/07/16/androidstudioshortcuts3/Not only can anything in Android Studio be controlled with a keyboard shortcut, it offers many more simple tricks to make you more productive. To conclude this series, we will look at how you can control the interface, invoke every (!https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/04/26/androidstudioshortcuts2/Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/04/26/androidstudioshortcuts2/Refactoring can be tedious and easily introduce bugs. The main reason for this is the number of manual steps involved: rename, move, copy-paste,… So wouldn’t it make sense to automate this and have Android Studio do all the work for you?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/02/22/androidstudioshortcuts/Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/02/22/androidstudioshortcuts/Struggling to navigate your code? Getting lost in deep inheritance hierarchies? Hard time figuring out relations between classes? Let’s learn how to navigate code in Android Studio like a pro.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/01/01/yearinreview/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2018/01/01/yearinreview/For the first time ever I have my year in review ready in time. I’m sure I’ll never forget 2017. Not only did we start building our dream house, but more importantly, our family grew to 4 people!https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/12/26/macosupdate/Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/12/26/macosupdate/Tonight after a routine MacOS update (10.13.2) disaster struck and my Mac got stuck in an update boot loop. After a few hours of panic, reading online and trial & error I managed to resolve it.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/12/18/fragmentback/Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/12/18/fragmentback/Do Fragment transactions and back navigation have no more secrets for you? Well then you should try to solve the mystery in this post, where a Fragment (literally) came to haunt us…https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/11/28/coveragproblem/Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/11/28/coveragproblem/While you may be tempted to strive for 100% code coverage, that would be a horrible idea. Besides some code being hard to test, the concept of coverage is actually fundamentally limited.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/10/27/droidconuk/Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/10/27/droidconuk/Had a blast visiting Droidcon UK this year and wanted to do a quick post to link to all of it’s wonderful content. Conference slides # While you can find all recordings here, I often find it useful to be able to quickly scan through the slides.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/09/13/kotlinopportunity/Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/09/13/kotlinopportunity/This isn’t another post about the benefits of using Kotlin. Hell, I’m not even going to cover any of its language features. Nor will I try to convince you to make the switch.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/07/21/java8language/Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/07/21/java8language/For years Android developers have been limited to Java 6 features. While RetroLambda or the experimental Jack toolchain would help, proper support from Google was notably missing.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/06/14/androidstudio3/Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/06/14/androidstudio3/Upgrading to Android studio 3.0 territory will make building multi-module projects a lot faster, but it also means a breaking Gradle plugin API change unfortunately.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/05/31/googleio17/Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/05/31/googleio17/Being my 2nd year at Google IO, I decided to do things differently: Besides taking notes during sessions, I also created a personal todo list. This contains all new (and even old) technologies I got triggered to look into.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/04/11/androidmakers17/Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/04/11/androidmakers17/After organizing Droidcon Paris for several year, the organizers decided to move on and experiment with a new format. This didn’t just result in a well organized conference, but also in a fresh new vibe whilst still feeling familiar.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/03/08/appcrash/Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/03/08/appcrash/Too many times I’ve seen developers trying to avoid crashes at all cost. But are unhandled exceptions really that bad? And are null checks really the answer?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/02/16/unittests/Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/02/16/unittests/If you can code, you can also write unit tests. Writing awesome tests on the other hand is a different story. Don’t fool yourself: Unit testing code is production code that you will need to maintain, refactor and build upon for years to come.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/01/17/mockitoandroid/Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/01/17/mockitoandroid/The Mockito team is on fire lately! Not only did they add support to mock final classes and methods, but now they allow running Mockito directly onto an actual Android device.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/01/09/yearinreview/Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2017/01/09/yearinreview/It’s that time of the year again to do a little personal retrospective. 2016 passed by so quickly! I had a fantastic time playing around with (and taking care of) my wife and daughter.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/10/31/mockitomatchers/Mon, 31 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/10/31/mockitomatchers/Due to its clean simple api, Mockito has become world’s most popular Java mocking framework. After having covered all of its basics, it’s time to spice things up and start extending Mockito.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/09/01/coveragecost/Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/09/01/coveragecost/Code coverage is an awesome way to motivate you and your team to write more tests. But did you know that simply enabling it slows down your build significantly?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/08/03/copyright/Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/08/03/copyright/As die hard Android developers, copyright notices are usually not on top of our priority list. Yet large corporations always insist to add a copyright header.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/07/21/cyclinggps/Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/07/21/cyclinggps/Cycling is all about exploring: visiting new places and making existing routes more fun with better streets. So there must be an app that allows to plan your route and start cycling right?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/06/24/droidcondetalk/Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/06/24/droidcondetalk/At Droidcon Berlin 2016 I had a great time talking about testing using the Mockito framework. While the talk wasn’t recorded unfortunately, the great folks at Voice Republic recorded an audio version which you can listen to as a podcast or together with the slides.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/06/18/droidconde/Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/06/18/droidconde/Having founded the entire Droidcon franchise in 2009, Droidcon Berlin is a magical conference to be at. Not only do they have an awesome lineup of speakers (including yours truly).https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/05/06/methodcount/Fri, 06 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/05/06/methodcount/As green field projects are a rare breed, chances are that you’ve inherited a legacy code base. If you’re as lucky as me, that code base has over 65k methods causing the build times to be boringly slow.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/04/08/droidconit/Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/04/08/droidconit/A conference about our favorite Green little robots? In sunny Italy? With great food and a party? Yeah, I can image how you must feel in case you missed it… I on the other hand was fortunate enough to attend and speak at this awesome conference.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/03/07/resourcenaming/Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/03/07/resourcenaming/Do you remember the last time you had to dig into strings.xml to find the right String to use? Or that you manually had to go over all drawables to find the one you needed?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/02/05/wagongit/Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/02/05/wagongit/As my previous blogposts already covered how to set up a private Maven repository, you might wonder “Why again a Maven blogpost?”. Well that’s a fair question and the answer is twofold:https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/01/29/yearinreview/Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2016/01/29/yearinreview/Finally found the time to write my year in review. #insomnia 2015 was a huge year for me! I even dare to say the biggest one of my life so far as I became a father of a lovely daughter Lene.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2015/11/13/traviscoveralls/Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2015/11/13/traviscoveralls/Wouldn’t you love to have your open source projects built automatically by a continuous integration server? And to have a detailed code coverage report for all your unit tests?https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2015/08/13/artifactory2/Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2015/08/13/artifactory2/My previous blog post described how to set up your own private Maven repository with Artifactory in 30 minutes. This second and final part will make things more interesting and take your setup to the next level.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2015/08/06/artifactory/Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2015/08/06/artifactory/Setting up your own Maven repository and uploading artifacts to it is quite a daunting task. As I went through this experience myself recently, I want to help others in setting up their own Maven repository via Artifactory and automate uploading artifacts using Gradle.https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2015/04/25/blog-creation/Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000info@jeroenmols.com (Jeroen Mols)https://jeroenmols.com/blog/2015/04/25/blog-creation/For quite some months, I’ve been planning to create a website and start blogging about the things I’m passionate about. Last week, I finally decided to setup a portfolio and blog using GitHub pages and Jekyll.