A Gradle scan is a build scan that provides insights into how your build ran and why it did what it did. Once you’ve generated a scan, you can share that with other members of your team (or anyone who may help diagnose issues) via a URL. Here’s a sample scan! Creating a Gradle Scan […]
Sentry is an error tracking service that helps you quickly track errors in many environments. While it’s not the only option for error reporting (Rollbar comes to mind since they sponsor most of the podcasts I listen to), Sentry is my favorite option. Today, we’re going to setup Sentry reporting for our Scala / Play […]
Traits are a pattern introduced in Scala (at least, this was my first introduction to them) that help avoid deep class hierarchies in favor of composition. If you don’t have Scala experience, but do have Java experience, you can treat this similarly to Java 8 Interfaces. However, I still prefer to call them Traits. Although […]
Burnout happens — especially developer burnout. It’s unfortunate, but a fact of life. However, it seems to happen to developers (and maybe Doctors, but you’re not my target audience) far more often then other professions. It may manifest in the emotion of dread, knowing you have to go in to work tomorrow. Or it may […]
Kotlin to Scala. Scala to Kotlin. Two contenders for my heart. In the left corner, we have the new comer! Weighing in at just over 1.2MB — The Ambassador of Android: Kotlin! And in the right corner, we have the long-time favorite, weighing in at just over 5.3MB — The Archduke of Akka, The Sultan […]
Android’s SurfaceFlinger is a system service provided on the Android Operating System. Now that that is out of the way… What does it actually do? If you’ve worked with scrolling, you’ll know that “flinging” is an action that a user can do, but it’s not related to that. Actually, the SurfaceFlinger is a service that […]
Figuring out when to use dimensions in Android can be a tricky time. Should all values be a dimension? How about none of them? You could argue that both of these are valid, but I’d like to clear the air with the statement “sometimes you should use dimension values.” But how do you know when? […]