Google gets it Wrong

Hello  rant on. There are times hen every developer both outside application developers and project contributors want to just strangle Google. This might be one of those times. On Sept 21st a developer blog post was posted on the android blog about using proguard to obfuscate in oreder to use some LVL features. The proguard [...]

AndCooperANT 0.1.1.1 Release

There is now a download of the AndCooperANT Android Java Application build tool. Its still alpha with the most tested area being the build.xml script. Of course if you find errors report them in the issues section. Some of the docs are still in flux at the moment let me know in an issue/bug report [...]

The Philosophy of AndCooperANT

If you visit most android developer forums you find android developers from all areas of development. Some are web developers, some are MS.NET developers, some are java developers, some are JavaEE developers, some are CS students, etc. Among those many groups there is not a common thread of using a continuous integration build server.  With [...]

ANT Build Script Up

The ANT Build script is up in this knol, its in alpha form. Later on I will put in up at github.

Android and Google GWT

Now I have an integration decision with AndCooper Android Java Application ANT based build tool. With the webview web code suport in the build tool my diea was at some point to swtitch to Goolge GWT compiler support and keep the non GWT  web tooling support there for those who wil not use Google GWT. [...]

AndCooperANT

I should have some screen shots of AndCooperANT in action by tonight. Thus, so why put in several months of constant building application prototypes to test out AndCooper methodologies? Several years back I had a prediction that there would be a rise of top ten developer firms building facebook applications. During that period I submitted [...]

Android Checkstyle checks

Here is the link to the Android Checkstyle set of rules that  am grouping together. In going though all the checkstyle checks I noticed some rules that were not enable in the normal checkstyle checks file that should be enabled for Android development. The added checks are have  a beginning commment so that you can [...]

Android Development At Agile Speeds

One of the obstacles lately that I have run into is how do you describe an Android Agile Enabler Build System such as AndCooper. Usually, i am communicating with managerial people that already have some exposure to such code review items as unit/mock test code coverage, code comment coverage, code correctness measurements, and etc. Thus, [...]

Gradle Task for Proguard

I use proguard settings specific to Android Java applications so change to fit your needs before using: Notice all I am doing is creating the proguard.pro file on-the-fly and than using that in my taskdef via the ANTBuilder.

Android Builds-Gradle Style

The main feature, one of them, of Groovy’s Gradle build framework  is that plug-ins will add task to the life-cycle. Life-cycle in this case is the build life-cycle. Since mobile java builds are different than enterprise java I have had to come up with my own build life cycle definition, which looks like this in [...]