The Android team at Orion Labs has been using Tuple for a few months now. Our team is distributed across the country and using Tuple has really helped synchronous connections on the team. I thought I would share a few simple tips/tricks to get the most of the experience.
Understanding Different Gradle Caches for Android Projects, part 2
This is part 2 in a series about different caches available to Android Gradle projects. In part 1 we walked about the benefits provided by Gradle’s cache of incremental builds and the build cache directory. In the second half here, we talk about Android’s build cache, the Gradle daemon, and dependency caching
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Understanding Different Gradle Caches for Android Projects, part 1.
There are several ways Gradle stores information between builds to drastically reduce subsequent build times. You may be familiar with some of these methods, but what’s important is that they build upon each other gradually improving build speed. If you are only benefiting from one, then you have something to gain by also looking into the others.
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Profile Your Lint Tasks
I recently read a post by Tor Norbye about increasing Lint performance. I also watches a talk by Aurimas Liutikas about profiling your app builds. I thought I would combine these two ideas to try to profile my lint tasks.
Leaving Google Fi
I’m sharing the story of a bad situation I had ordering a new phone through Google Fi. It turned into a two month long ordeal where the service got worse and worse. At every turn the Google Fi team was presented with a chance to make things better and every time they blew it. I’m sharing this because I hope a long form review of the process is helpful to other potential Google Fi customers.