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In my previous article I published information about publishing JAR/AAR library to the Maven Central Repository. A few steps of that process were automated, but a few of them were still manual. I mean closing and release process which had to be done by manual clicking on the Sonatype website. Fortunately, it’s possible to automate it. In order to do that, I used gradle-nexus-staging-plugin developed by Codearte. Thanks to this plugin I could get rid of the remaining manual steps left in the release process....

Introduction As a Java/JVM/Android developers we rely on the work of other people through frameworks and libraries. Many of them are open-source. Most of the developers are consumers of such projects. What if we would like to create our own library and distribute it to other developers? We can always create it and share a *.jar or *.aar file with others. Drawback of such solution is the fact that source of distribution may not be trusted....

I recently wrote a new library called NeuroSky Android SDK. It’s used for writing Android apps using signals of the brain waves received from the NeuroSky MindWave Mobile headsets. Probably I’ll write a separate article about it because it’s quite interesting topic. This library uses ThinkGear library, which is distributed by the NeuroSky as a *.jar file, so I couldn’t use it as a Gradle or Maven dependency in my project and I had to put this *....

During development process, we often write unit and integration tests. While unit tests verify corectness of the small pieces of code, integration tests verify software as a whole project and sometimes can treat it as a black box where concrete results are expected. During development of the REST API, we can write integration tests for such API with REST Assured. Integration tests are usually slower, because they need to start the server and sometimes do other stuff....

I recently wrote a simple java app with Dagger 2 as a DI container and Gradle as a build system. I wanted to generate unit test coverage report for this app, so I used Jacoco. In my build.gradle file I configured JaCoCo as follows: plugins { id 'jacoco' } jacocoTestReport { reports { xml.enabled = true html.enabled = true } } Now, I could type: ./gradlew test jacocoTestReport Report was generated in build/reports/jacoco/ directory....