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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....

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....

While developing open-source projects it’s important to monitor usage of them. Having that information we know on which projects we should concentrate the most and which are becoming more popular. In this short article, I’ll present you two tools, which can help you with that. GitHub On GitHub, each project has “Traffic” tab. After clicking on it, we can see how many visitors and unique visitors we have, we can also check how many project clones and unique clones were performed (including CI servers)....

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....

Today at Kariera IT conference in Katowice, Poland, I presented talk explaining how to make open-source projects, which people want to use from my perspective. Below, you can find slides from my presentation. Thank you all for the attendance, interesting questions and organizers for inviting me. I hope you learned something new. Of course, any constructive feedback for this talk will be appreciated :). Link: How to make open-source projects, which people want to use