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Tame Your Gradle Dependencies just BECAUSE!

In Uncategorized By blundell On 2020-02-152020-02-15

Did you know you can specify a reason for using a certain dependency or certain version of a dependency? Yep it’s in the API here and referenced in the DOCS here. void because?(@Nullable String reason)…

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Tagged android, androiddev, dependencies, gradle

[TUT] Kotlin Extension Functions by Example

In Uncategorized By blundell On 2019-01-202019-01-20

Kotlin Extension functions allow you to add behaviour (think methods/functions) to any other type on the platform or in your codebase. The idea being to allow for greater flexibility and less boiler plate code. Let’s…

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Tagged clean code, kotlin

[TUT] Creating a ByteString in Android

In Uncategorized By blundell On 2019-01-202019-01-20

The protobuf library has a construct called ByteString. This is a immutable sequence of bytes, usually used to serialise a file or other piece of data. Recently when using the Google Cloud Speech to Text…

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Tagged android, kotlin, protobuf

[TUT] Android Things – Zx Gesture Sensor using UART

In Uncategorized By blundell On 2017-12-232017-12-23

This blog post is going to show you how you can use the UART protocol to output from your AndroidThings application. We will attach a ZX Sensor and detect some movement hand gestures, minority report…

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