Android

In the latest release of ReactiveNetwork library, I focused on Walled Garden AKA Great Firewall support during checking Internet connectivity. There are countries with limited Internet access like China and in such cases, pinging commonly known host like www.google.com may have different results than in other countries because it may be blocked. We may get false positive results because users will generally have an access to the Internet, but they don’t have access only to several websites. To solve that problem, I created WalledGardenInternetObservingStrategy and made it default strategy for checking Internet connectivity inside the library. Of course, you can still use SocketInternetObservingStrategy if you want to. Detailed release notes are as follows: RxJava1.x ...

I’ve recently released ReactiveNetwork library v. 0.10.0 for RxJava1.x and RxJava2.x. ReactiveNetwork is an Android library listening network connection state and Internet connectivity with RxJava Observables, which I’m developing for approximately 2 years now. In this version, I’ve done a few bug fixes and added new features for RxJava2.x version. Below, you can find the release notes: Release for RxJava1.x bumped RxJava1 version to 1.3.0 bumped test dependencies created Code of Conduct updated Kotlin version in sample apps added retrolambda to the sample Java app - issue #163 fixed behavior of network observing in disconnected state - issue #159 Release for RxJava2.x ...

I’ve recently released new version of prefser library for Android. In case you don’t know, it’s a wrapper for Android SharedPreferences with object serialization and RxJava Observables. This version has the new artifact, which has codebase migrated to RxJava2.x. As usual, I kept backward compatibility with RxJava1.x. You can find more details about the project at https://github.com/pwittchen/prefser. If you want to use it in your mobile project, you need the following dependencies in the build.gradle file: ...

I’ve recently released new version of Prefser. It’s a wrapper for Android SharedPreferences with object serialization and RxJava Observables. The new version number is 2.0.7. In this release, I performed mostly internal work not related to the external library API. Nevertheless, it’s important for the library development in the future. The following things were done: updated dependencies updated Gradle configuration migrated unit tests to Robolectric started executing unit tests on Travis CI added integration with codecov.io and coverage report extracted code related to accessors from the Prefser class (refactoring library internals) Organizational work is done and now I’m ready for migration to RxJava2 in this project on a separate branch. I want to keep backward compatibility with RxJava1 as in my other projects. This update is planned for version 2.1.0. Stay tuned! ...

This time, I upgraded my another reactive Android open-source project called ReactiveNetwork to RxJava2.x. Many thanks goes to @tushar-acharya who performed initial migration to the newer version of RxJava. During migration, I’ve also created new package rx2 to avoid potential import conflicts during migration inside Android apps. Besides migration, I’ve updated sample apps, documentation & JavaDocs on Github pages. You can still use RxJava1.x version and it’s available on the branch with that name. To use brand new ReactiveNetwork compatible with RxJava2.x, add the following dependency to your build.gradle file: ...