Recommitting to Blogging In light of (waves at everything) I feel like good old long-form blogging is a better mental outlet and longer-durability than social media. I've been working on my annual self-review at work and I've realized that I've done plenty of stuff that could have been blog material, and that inversely,
Tracing "Application Not Responding" Errors Like A Boss If you’ve been an Android user or an Android developer long enough, you’ll have run into dialogs like this. As a developer, it’s a sure-fire way to get yourself a one star review. Why do you get these dialogs? Because you’re doing some long-running operation on,
Android Quickie: Accessing Local Resources with "adb reverse" Note: This was originally published in 2016, but the features still work today. Our mobile backend can run locally on our workstations, but it has to access resources within the company firewall. And because of Bank Grade Security™ we can’t have our mobile devices on the same network as
Tracing the Android Build System's Manifest Merger, or "Where'd that permission come from?" On a project at work, we’ve been doing a review of unnecessary permissions while we’re working towards adopting Android 6.0’s runtime permission model. For instance, we had some app functionality which would immediately invoke a phone call (using ACTION_CALL), which requires the CALL_PHONE permission.
