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Jake Wharton
jakewharton.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Jake Wharton, an Android developer, writes about Android, Kotlin, and library design.
What HN saysHN links it for posts on Android and Kotlin topics, such as the testing robots pattern and removing Google as a single point of failure.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Removing Google as a single point of failure6 people · 16 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 2Just Say MNo to Hungarian Notation3 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3Play Services 5.0 is a Monolithic Abomination3 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 4A Jetpack Compose by any other name2 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 5Slope-Intercept Library Design2 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 6Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?1 people · 148 points · first shared 2020 · 109 comments on HN
- 7Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2%1 people · 100 points · first shared 2020 · 29 comments on HN
- 8Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator1 people · 86 points · first shared 2014 · 44 comments on HN
- 9Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail1 people · 53 points · first shared 2021 · 10 comments on HN
- 10The Android Build System Is Broken1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11Treating Dockerfiles as Shell Scripts1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 12Gradle Toolchains are rarely a good idea1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 13Jake Wharton – Android's Java 9, 10, 11, and 12 Support1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 14Sixteen Corners1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Using jlink to cross-compile minimal JREs1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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weitzj · 2021-08-30
Sounds like the Testing Robots Pattern which I first heard from Jake Wharton. Looks really nice
https://jakewharton.com/testing-robots/
cglong · 2020-08-26
Haven't watched it yet, but looks like the author gave a talk recently about differences between Kotlin and the latest Java: https://jakewharton.com/whats-new-in-java-19-the-end-of-kotlin/
ocdtrekkie · 2020-04-19
Recent article I read from someone who works on Android: https://jakewharton.com/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of-failure/
krschultz · 2014-08-11
I don't think we've mellowed, just that we have become more sympathetic to Facebook's problem. I think the reality is that the 65k method limit problem has turned into something Android Developers put squarely at Google's feet. At the time I thought, what the hell is Facebook doing? Now, I've run into the 65k limit myself on an app written by 4 people over 18 months. Sure it's not a throwaway weekend project, but that is a pretty standard app.
Google either needs to blow away the 65k method limit, or figure out a way to make Google Play Services a lot lighter. As it stands right now, if you want just push notifications you are giving up ~20k methods of your 65k limit for that alone.
Just look at this post from Jake Wharton (leading Android open source developer): http://jakewharton.com/play-services-is-a-monolith/