Development on pacheco.dev

Using Kotlin's REPL in a web browser

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:00:00 +0100

Sometimes you want to try out some code and you don’t want the hassle of having to start a new project in your IDE or might not have a machine to hand to run the code. So what are your options?

Android Webview Image Anchor

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:20:59 +0000

The problem: calling webview.hitTestResult on an anchor tag that has an image as a child element returns a hitTestResult with the type of SRC_IMAGE_ANCHOR_TYPE and the hitTestResult.extra is the src of the image and not the url of the anchor tag.

Deploying Cloud Functions using Service Accounts

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 14:00:00 +0000

Service accounts can be used to allow limited access control and can be used without the need for the usual web authentication journey that is typically used when authenticating the gcloud SDK. These are ideal for use in a CI setup.

Android SDK Search Chrome Extension

Wed, 21 Sep 2016 20:48:00 +0100

I can’t believe I hadn’t come across this Chrome extension before but it sure is helpful when digging into the Android SDK.

Using Kotlin's sealed class to approximate Swift's enum with associated data

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 14:23:00 +0100

Swift has a great feature for an enum type that allows you to associated data with it.

Live Templates in Android Studio

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:16:14 +0100

Live templates allow you to quickly add text to the current file. They are context aware so that only relevant templates for the current cursor location are shown.