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I’m going to show you how you can use Flutter and AWS Amplify to quickly go from nothing to a working cross-platform mobile application with authentication and backend infrastructure. What would usually take a small dev team a week or so to setup can be achieved in a fraction of the time using this toolkit. If you follow along with this tutorial, it should take you no more than an hour. Well, it took me several hours fighting with various…

What Is Gradle? Gradle is a powerful build automation tool that is widely used in the Java and Android development communities. It allows developers to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying applications, making it an essential tool in modern software development workflows.  What Is Homebrew? Homebrew is a package manager that allows you to easily install and manage software packages on macOS.  Installing Gradle If you are a macOS user, you can easily install Gradle using Homebrew by…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming various industries and changing the way businesses operate. Although Python is often regarded as the go-to language for AI development, Java provides robust libraries and frameworks that make it an equally strong contender for creating AI-based applications. In this article, we explore using Java and Gradle for AI development by discussing popular libraries, providing code examples, and demonstrating end-to-end working examples. Java Libraries for AI Development Java offers several powerful libraries and frameworks for building…

Code coverage is a software quality metric commonly used during the development process that let’s you determine the degree of code that has been tested (or executed). To achieve optimal code coverage, it is essential that the test implementation (or test suites) tests a majority percent of the implemented code. There are a number of code coverage tools for languages like Java, C#, JavaScript, etc. Using the best-suited code coverage tool is important to understand the percentage of code tested…

In this tutorial, we will create a simple RESTful web service using Spring Boot and Gradle. Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications, and Gradle is a powerful build tool that simplifies the build process. What Is REST? REST, Representational State Transfer, is a set of architectural principles ensuring your APIs are interoperable, scalable, and maintainable. Imagine building Lego blocks — different applications can seamlessly interact with your API as long as they follow the RESTful…

To maintain the rapid pace of modern software development, efficiency and productivity are paramount. Build automation plays a crucial role in streamlining the software development lifecycle by automating repetitive tasks and ensuring consistent and reliable builds. With the help of dedicated build automation software tools, development teams can enhance collaboration, reduce errors, and accelerate the delivery of high-quality software. This article explores some popular software tools used for build automation, their key features, and how they contribute to optimizing the…

Gradle version catalogs allow us to add and maintain dependencies in an easy and scalable way. Apps grow, and managing projects with several development teams increases the compilation time. One potential solution to address this issue involves segmenting the project into multiple modules. Compiling these modules in parallel and solely recompiling modified portions reduces the overall compilation time. However, a predicament arises: How can we effectively share common library dependencies and their respective versions while evading compilation errors and the…

Show of hands, how many of us truly understand how your build automation tool builds its dependency tree? Now, lower your hand if you understand because you work on building automation tools. Thought so! One frustrating responsibility of software engineers is understanding your project’s dependencies: what transitive dependencies were brought in and by whom; why v1.3.1 is used when v1.2.10 was declared; what resulted when the transitive dependencies changed; how did multiple versions of the same artifact occur? Every software…

The world of Android app development is constantly evolving, and so are the tools and languages used to build these apps. Gradle, a popular build system, has been an integral part of Android development for years. In the past, Gradle build scripts for Android projects were written in Groovy, but with the introduction of Kotlin, developers now have the option to write their build scripts in a more modern and concise language. In this article, we’ll explore the transition from…