Jake Wharton

Let's defuse the Compose BOM

3 months ago

Many people rely on the Compose bill of materials (BOM) artifact to...

You should use AndroidX betas

4 months ago

Did you know the versioning of AndroidX libraries and their stability guarantees...

Custom short-link redirector

5 months ago

I used to use Bit.ly to put links into my presentations Their...

Fan-in to a single required GitHub Action

10 months ago

It doesn’t take long for a project to spawn multiple jobs in...

Compile-time validation of JNI signatures

12 months ago

JNI allows managed code inside the JVM or ART to call into...

Deprecating idling resource libraries

about 1 year ago

When Espresso was made public a decade ago, one of its banner...

Using Renovate to update build JDK

about 1 year ago

You want to be using the latest JDK for development Don’t use...

Nonsensical Maven is still a Gradle problem

almost 2 years ago

Gradle toolchains are rarely a good idea

almost 2 years ago

The last post featured some Kotlin code inadvertently targeting a new Java...

Kotlin's JDK release compatibility flag

almost 2 years ago

Yesterday, our Android app crashed with a weird NoSuchMethodError java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No interface...

Using jlink to cross-compile minimal JREs

about 3 years ago

jlink is a JDK tool to create bespoke, minimal JREs for your...

Report card: Java 19 and the end of Kotlin

over 3 years ago

Three years ago I gave the talk “What’s new in Java 19...