Zan Markan

For most of us, thinking about a mob, we probably picture Italian crime syndicates of New York or Chicago in the prohibition era. Men in suits bootlegging, shooting tommy guns, running protection rackets, smoking cigars and drinking in speakeasies with Frankie Sinatra. Or Marlon effing Brando making an offer he

We’re currently in the final stage before releasing our rebuilt app, and that unfortunately means most of our work is finding and fixing bugs before the users find and complain about them. Our regular development process is great for developing features, but works really slowly for the bugs at

Us old timers love to share our knowledge. We taught ourselves through trial and error. Extensive googling, being ‘taught’ by hackers to type sudo followed by rm -rf / followed by reinstalling whole 8 or so CDs of SUSE Linux…(yes reader, I really fell for that). We learnt our skills

As I earn my living writing Java code that runs on Android, some people assume by default that I must hate Apple. They couldn’t be more wrong. Here’s why. This blogpost was written on a Macbook air. A machine that survived a 1.5m fall with merely a

Google Play Services (PS) is an awesome library and every Android developer needs it. It makes location super easy, allows you to use the G+ sign in button thingy to forget about passwords, figure out what you’re doing using Google Fit, etc… Of course there is a but. It’

So you tell me your pet project has become a burden to maintain? You might be experiencing a Death Goblin infestation. It is a particularly nasty pet. I have several, you may have several, Mark Zuckerberg probably has a horde of them. Mark Zuckerberg’s Death Goblins (artists imagining) It’

I’ve recently had some fun trying to make Raygun and Proguard play nicely in one of our Android application so I think it might help some people. If you know what each of these tools do, just skip to the Problem section, otherwise, keep reading. Note: the examples I’

For the last two days, my colleague Paul and I had been battling with a weird issue in our Android test suite running on CI. We had been getting Unable to find instrumentation info gradle errors whilst running the connectedCheck task. Suckers looked like this: "Tests on Nexus 5

Last Wednesday, my colleagues @Hetal_Patel and @cpatuzzoand myself ran a Hands-On session with the same name at the London Software Craftsmanship Community. First off, big thanks to @SamirTalwar and @roberttaylor426 and everyone else who helped us pull this off, including Pivotal Labs London office for hosting us and providing