simpligility – Manfred Moser

    Category: Android

    • A new chapter – your support makes a difference

      I honestly don’t remember my first open source contributions. I was involved in some of the early days of hacking, modding, and working on shareware and freeware before the internet and then in newsgroups – remember those? From there I just continued my software development and community work – we didn’t even call our work open source. Over the many years I have become heavily involved in the Java, Android, DevOps, security, and other communities and projects like Apache Maven, Jenkins/Hudson, Trino, and many others.

      For years, I’ve dedicated myself to building, maintaining, and improving projects that are critical to developers and organizations globally. The commitment has definitely varied and sometimes included parts of that open source work in my job description, but even then it always included many late nights. Now I am finding myself in a different situation again and I am trying something new…

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    • Google doubling down on AI

      We just came back from our visit to Mountain View to attend Google IO 2024 in person. For Manfred it has been a flashback to the days of regular IO attendance as GDG leader and heavily involved Android developer and open source community member. For Lukas it was the first bigger conference as university student, and his first visit to the Googleplex, thanks to our friend, host, and guide Matthew McCullough.

      Two days of attending keynotes and sessions, and numerous chats with our peers left us with lots of impressions that we discussed and talked about and want to share with you all.

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    • It’s showtime, it’s IO time

      It has been a long time that spring time has marked the moment to get ready for the Google IO developer conference for me. Its been many years since I last went to the conference. It started with IO 2009 and many presentations and lightning talks at AnDevCon conferences for me. The buzz and vibe in these beginning days Android is full of fond memories for me. Now in 2024, and it’s time to go back.

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    • Android Maven Plugin 4.6.0 Released

      Is it really nearly two years ago. Time certainly flies. My focus these days certainly has shifted away from Android development, but of course that does not mean I should let down the users of the plugin. So here it is .. a new release of the Android Maven Plugin.

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    • Kotlin for polyglot-maven

      In the Java/JVM and especially also in the Android eco-system the Kotlin programming language has found many friends and fans. It even is moving into native and web realms these days. With it popularity soaring it spreads out further and it was only natural to bump into the most widely used build system on the JVM – Apache Maven.

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    • ksoap-android 3.6.4

      So it seems a whole bunch of users are still in a situation where the use SOAP webservices and my trusty ksoap-android project is of service to them. Great!

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    • ksoap2-android 3.6.3

      To be honest I am not sure if there are still many users of ksoap2-android out there. I have sorta left the Android development efforts myself. A few comments showed up in issues pointing to a missing module and I had a quick look to fix it.

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