Mock Retrofit using Dagger and Mockito

Retrofit is one of the most popular REST client for Android, if you never use it, it is high time to start. There are a lot of articles and tutorial talking about Retrofit. I just would like to show how to mock a REST server during develop of app and in unit test when you are using Dagger as DI...

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Roboguice lecture

26th September I conducted my first lecture in front of Warsaw society of Mobile developers. I had only 1 hour, thus In very concise way, I showed every curious features of Roboguice. From the simplest bindings, observes mechanism etc. to Inject customActivity using provides method and NullProvider. Unfortunately there isn't any video of the event, so at least I publish a slide show. Roboguice from Paweł Byszewski...

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Grails coffeescript plugin

Brian Kotek has written great plugin to integrate CoffeeScript into Grails project - grails-coffeescript-compiler-plugin. Everything about configuration of the plugin you can find on wiki. The plugin cooperates with two coffeescript compilers Rhino and Node. Accordingly to default behaviour ,when both compilers are installed on system, the Node will be chosen. Unfortunately there are some tiny differences between Rhino and Node. In my case I was the only person in the team that has installed Rhino and Node...

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Grails one to many: Find object by property of one of child-object from collection

Have you ever looking for solution of a problem that became obvious in the moment that you find it. In my case I have tried to find Grails domain object by property of one of its child  Assume that there are persons and pets. Each person can have one or more pets. Each pet has one owner. class Person { String name static hasMany = [pets: Pet] } class Pet { String name int age static belongsTo = [person: Person] } Lets find all persons that have at least one pet with name "reksio"....

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Phonegap / Cordova and cross domain ssl request problem on android.

In one app I have participated, there was a use case: User fill up a form. User submit the form. System send data via https to server and show a response. During development there wasn’t any problem, but when we were going to release production version then some unsuspected situation occurred. I prepare the production version accordingly with standard flow for Android environment: ant release align signing During conduct tests...

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Migration project to grails 2.2

Once upon a time in my team appeared a thoughts : ”Lets migrate from grails 2.1 to 2.2”. Hmm, why not. This operation is not simple change of framework version. It is more like a chain reaction, because new grails requires groovy 2.0 and groovy 2.0 require Spock 0.7. Thus in our case the migration resulted in upgrading three basic cores of the application. So lets see what new features we gain thanks to the migration. Grails 2.2.0 The...

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