This is the second part of an undecided number of posts about creating a Gradle plugin for Android. Part one can be found here.

First up I'd like to thank everyone for their feedback on my previous post. It seems that I'm not the only one who found the documentation …

In this post I'm going to detail the steps I went through to create a Gradle plugin for Android from scratch.

I've been meaning to write this post for a while, ever since I did my first post Monkeying around with gradle to generate code and the recent Caster.IO …

I've been working on adding a widget into the app and I've hit a couple of little gotchyas. Here's what I've found and my ways around. (Hey, that rhymes.)

Jake Wharton has published an article titled Just Say mNo to Hungarian Notation and if you agree with what he says, here's a little tip to help you remember to say mNo by making use of the Search Structurally feature of Studio.

So let's start off with a very simple …

By now everyone has heard about the Marshmallow permission model. You havent? Where have you been? Go and read Requesting Permissions at Run Time and come back when you've finished. It's ok. I can wait...

So it's all well and good except when you're trying to run tests. When you're …

You know how it is - you're developing an app that uses an API out on the Internet. You're sitting on your development machine that uses wired ethernet. Your phone is connected to a wi-fi access point which is on a different network to your development machine and you need to …

The code was right. The test was wrong. But it still passed.

The app that we've been working on has a ViewPager and we're using Espresso for functional testing. One of the tests swipes between the pages of the ViewPager and checks for some text on each page.

Later on …

Sorry about the theme changing. I wanted to add the ability to leave comments but the theme I was using before doesn't support them. I can't promise it won't change again.

I've changed to this theme for now. I might keep it. I might not. I kinda liked having the …

This is a rant post, and is purely my own opinion.

Now I'm sure that Google have done their customer research. I'd hate to think that someone sat in a room and said "Apple have a 6-inch phone and people rave about it so we have to have one too …

Inspired by a tweet from @rfletcherEW

Creating links and symlinks from the commandline involves the use of the ln command.  In the past I always forgot which parameter was the existing file/directory and the which was the link I wanted to create. So here's my quick tip to remember …