http://elijah.mirecki.com/categories/android/ Recent content in Android on Sylvia Mirecki Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:45:59 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/git-dependencies-in-gradle-android/ Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:45:59 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/git-dependencies-in-gradle-android/ I found it a pain to get git dependencies working in Gradle, so I decided to write this ugly blog post for my future self and possibly some other desperately-searching Android developers. The problem: Including git project dependencies (e.g. a common library among your apps). The solution: Add this to your root build.gradle: import org.ajoberstar.grgit.* buildscript { // ... dependencies { // ... classpath 'org.ajoberstar:gradle-git:0.13.+' // ... } // ... } // . http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/coloured-output-for-adb-logcat/ Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:08:12 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/coloured-output-for-adb-logcat/ I always love nice colour coded debug messages, but all of the adb wrappers that currently exist seem to be far more complex than they really need to be. So I rigged up this little bash script to neatly colour logcat. #!/bin/bash # Argument 1 is the optional log tag name. # Always should ERRORS from the android runtime because that is where the # exception message are generated from. [ $1 ] && args+="$1:* AndroidRuntime:E *:S" adb logcat $args | perl -pe ' s/^I. http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/simulate-android-d-pad-through-adb/ Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:53:38 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/simulate-android-d-pad-through-adb/ Recently, I had to deal with testing D-pad functionality in my app. Unfortunately, my device doesn’t have a D-pad. So I rigged up this little script to simulate a dpad from the console of my desktop. #!/bin/sh # Key codes may be found at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tasker/LJhmfxT2mj8%5B1-25-false%5D SHELL_COMMAND="adb shell" function send_keyevent { $SHELL_COMMAND input keyevent $1 & } function read_and_send_text_input { echo -n "Line: " read line $SHELL_COMMAND input text `echo $line | sed -e 's/ /%s/g'` & } while read -sN1 key; do # Catch multi-char special key sequences read -sN1 -t 0.