Chris Jenkins

Chris Jenkins

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RxJava - SyncOnSubscribe and fromCallable

RxJava is impressive, but it's a fairly overwhelming framework so I want to share some of the lesser known parts. Note: Code examples will be in Kotlin. Backpressure Simply; "backpressure" is when your Observable emits items quicker than a downstream Observer/Operator can consume them. For

GSON Empty Json Object to null.

Sometimes that API you are given just doesn't conform to what you are expecting. I have had to consume a JSON API recently where the JSON returned "{}" instead of null or not at all. For example, this is OK: { "name": "Chris", "

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Calligraphy 2.0.0

It's been a long time coming but version 2.0 is here. After talking with some friends, I used to work with. Calligraphy was born on the 20th of December, . "Gosh darn, why is it so hard to add custom fonts to Views in Android!" I&

Gradle & Robolectric & Jacoco & Dagger

As a few have, I stumbled into this $$ jacoco bug. To be fair this is not so much a GradlePlugin bug as more Jacoco/Dagger. Semantics aside, we wanted to know about our unit test coverage with Robolectric. Implimentations vary, I based alot of my work off of this template.

Gradlew Pro Tip

Fed up of typing ./gradlew tasks, same. Add the following to your rc file: alias = "./gradlew" I use zshell nano ~./zshrc. But you can add this to bashrc or other derivitives.

Android Looper oddness

Good Android development, heck good development, requires none ui blocking interactions. As part of that (I can’t take credit, I think Dorian Cussen came up with the original idea) I have a nice Java method in my Base Ui classes to handle making sure UI actions happen on the