Blogs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.