Tools of the Trade

Here are the slides to my talk at the Android Meetup tonight.


Thanks for all the great questions!

As promised, here are additional links:

Leak Canary (Square) - Really useful leak detection library
Multidex and Performance (Tim Mellor) - Great overview of everything multidex

Pidcat <3 Android M

If you use Pidcat, there might be issues running the tool if your device is on M+. The issue has been fixed on master but hasn't been released yet.

The readme says to fix the issue, get the latest off master:

12:46 $ brew unlink pidcat
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/pidcat/HEAD... 1 symlinks removed
✔ ~/Android 
12:48 $ brew install --HEAD pidcat
Warning: pidcat-HEAD already installed, it's just not linked
✔ ~/Android 

That didn't quite work, so let's link it:

12:48 $ brew link pidcat
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/pidcat/HEAD... 1 symlinks created
✔ ~/Android 

I tried re-running pidcat, but it's still not displaying anything. Which probably means we really don't have the latest code off the repo. The --force switch has been deprecated, so to force an update we would have to call reinstall instead:

12:49 $ brew reinstall --HEAD pidcat
==> Reinstalling pidcat
==> Cloning https://github.com/JakeWharton/pidcat.git
Cloning into '/Library/Caches/Homebrew/pidcat--git'...
remote: Counting objects: 10, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Total 10 (delta 0), reused 7 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
==> Checking out branch master
==> Caveats
Bash completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/pidcat/HEAD: 5 files, 19.5K, built in 4 seconds
✔ ~/Android

Or, if do not want to do all that, you can also do:

$ adb logcat -v brief | pidcat my.package.name

Super lightning talk: Tinkering with Tools

If you are just starting Android development or migrating from Eclipse to Android Studio, I gave a lightning talk on setting up some tools: