October 2021 - Interesting reads

Read

• Mobile Health Observability for Android apps is ridiculously hard. https://twitter.com/Piwai/status/1445430402357755907
• AdoptOpenJDK is moving to the Eclipse Foundation, and changing its name to become the Eclipse Adoptium project. https://blog.adoptopenjdk.net/2021/03/transition-to-eclipse-an-update/
• What does it mean to be Senior in different companies? https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-seniority-roller-coaster/
• 𝚂𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖𝙲𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚔.𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚜() == 𝚂𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖.𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎() /𝟷_000_000 https://twitter.com/Piwai/status/1442281013778866178
• The best way to search for Android source code https://cs.android.com/
• A good reminder of the difference between reduce and scan https://stackoverflow.com/a/52866503
• Why you should always provide a Modifier parameter to your @Composable https://chris.banes.dev/always-provide-a-modifier/
• How to support other teammates ideas https://leaddev.com/technical-decision-making/having-impact-engineering-supporting-other-peoples-ideas

Books

An interesting read for whoever wants to learn more about the challenges we encounter when writing big mobile apps that need to scale. IMO a very good read for both mobile developers but also any other devs / product / design person who wants to know more of what’s going on under the hood / on the day to day. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57668267-building-mobile-apps-at-scale

Tooling

• A new tool for static analysis from Jet Brains https://www.jetbrains.com/help/qodana/qodana-jvm-android.html
• It is now possible to reuse workflow with Github Actions (Beta) https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/reusing-workflows

TIL

You can rerun tasks only for a single module with the -a flag: ./gradlew app:assembleDebug --rerun-tasks -a will run all required tasks in the app module but none of the tasks in other modules that app depends on. -a stands for --no-rebuild. There’s no -a in the documentation, but it appears in ./gradlew help

Watch

• Casual chat and hot takes on Compose with Jake Wharton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX6nAvRWQg4
• For the shortcut masters among us (I myself learned quite a few) https://www.droidcon.com/2021/11/10/become-a-pro-in-android-studio-dcbln21/
• How they scale App development at Zalando https://www.droidcon.com/2021/11/10/scaling-app-development-at-zalando/

Shortcut of the month (Intellij IDEA)

You know how you can select the same occurrences of a selection by using CTRL+G? You can also decide to skip some of those occurrences by using CMD+G and then just continuing doing CTRL+G after for the rest of the occurrences you want to match (useful when you want to select only some of the occurrences in the file but not all of them)