Each Android app has an authentication mechanism or at least most of them do. What this auth mechanism does is that it refreshes an access token using a refresh token every N minutes. In our case these N minutes are 7. And now the question is: How do I implement this?
Continue reading “Execute an RxJava observable only once in a given time period”As we all know, data classes are final by default on Kotlin and if you try to use Mockito and mock such a class, you will get an exception. What you need to do is add this file:
Continue reading “Tricky parts when implementing unit tests for Android in Kotlin”Running unit tests for ViewModels on Android where you have LiveData objects can be tricky. It is very possible that you get this exception:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Method getMainLooper in android.os.Looper not mocked.
Continue reading “Running unit tests for LiveData with Jupiter on Android”I recently had a very strange bug when it comes to using a BehaviorSubject inside the object that I am testing.
Continue reading “Race conditions in unit tests with RxJava when using TestScheduler”I am using axios to scrape some data from some websites. Currently, I hit the case where the encoding of the website is in windows-1251 and the response I got from the request wasn’t readable at all.
Continue reading “Parse windows-1251 (cyrillic) request in axios”In Android we decided that we want to implement a unit test performance monitor. The reason for it is that sometimes some unit tests would execute in more than 1 second and it was all because we would use the Schedulers.trampoline() RxJava scheduler instead of the TestScheduler which is part of the RX package.
Continue reading “Creating a SonarQube custom plugin for Kotlin”We have all seen the white square at the top type of a notification in the notification bar.
Continue reading “Android Notification White Square Icon”I want to stop the update manager from popping up in Ubuntu because I think that they release bad updates sometimes and really make the OS unstable. This is my personal opinion after 3 reinstallations in 2 months.
Continue reading “Disabling update manager popup in Ubuntu”Following the answer from HERE it is becoming a simple task.
Continue reading “How to handle multiple heroku accounts with GIT”I was really wondering how I can remove repetitive tasks from Android Studio by assigning shortcuts or tags and I found that IntelliJ has Live Templates which I bet that little programmers use. So as an example I wanted when I type the word “tag” within a class the following to be autocompleted:
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