Android Studio 3: making gradle build a bit faster

Enable offline mode

If you are on a slow network connection, your build times may suffer when Gradle attempts to use network resources to resolve dependencies. You can tell Gradle to avoid using network resources by using only the artifacts that it has cached locally.

To use Gradle offline when building with Android Studio, proceed as follows:

1. Open the Preferences window by clicking File > Settings (on Mac, Android Studio > Preferences).
2. In the left pane, click Build, Execution, Deployment > Gradle.
3. Check the Offline work checkbox.
4. Click Apply or OK.

Enable configuration on demand

For Gradle to know exactly how to build your app, the build system configures all modules in your project, and their dependencies, before every build (even if you are building and testing only a single module). This slows down the build process for large multi-module projects. To tell Gradle to configure only the modules that you want to build, enable configuration on demand by following these steps:

1. Open the Preferences window by clicking File > Settings (on Mac, Android Studio > Preferences).
2. In the left pane, click Build, Execution, Deployment > Compiler.
3. Check the Configure on demand checkbox.
4. Click Apply or OK

For more option follow this rule https://developer.android.com/studio/build/optimize-your-build.html


References:

• https://developer.android.com/studio/build/optimize-your-build.html 

Genymotion and Virtualbox not working properly after windows 10 update Build 16299

After windows 10 automatic update into cersion 10.0.16299 Build 16299, Genymotion won't start and Virtualbox doesnot working properly.

Symptom:

1. Genymotion (Version 2.11), will stop during loading plugin and generate genymotion-log.zip log file under folder c:\user\[username]\genymotion-log.zip.
2. Virtualbox (Version 5.2.2 r119230) -> Global Tools -> Host Network Manager, always fail to create VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter. There is no any VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter (empty)

IMO, the cause of this problem, Virtualbox Network Driver does not configure properly after windows update.

Solution:
Uninstall your Virtualbox, restart your windows and reinstall your Virtualbox.

Note your existing virtual device will be safe (untouch).

Android Studio 3 on Debian Stretch: Fail to run AVD

Symptoms:

1. Emulator: libGL error: unable to load driver: r600_dri.so
2. Emulator: libGL error: driver pointer missing
3. ...etc

To solve this issue:

1. 1. backup your libstdc++ included in android sdk.
   ~/android-sdk-linux/emulator/lib64/libstdc++/libstdc++.so.6
   $ mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak
2. make link libstdc++.so.6 from debian stretch
   $ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6
   

References:

1. https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/145437/reinstall-avd-on-ubuntu-16-04
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36189393/android-studio-avd-error-launching

Upgrade JDK 8 to JDK 9 and steps to fix your application in Eclipse Oxygen

To install JDK 9 in windows (tested on Windows 10)

1. Download JDK 9 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. Current version when this note created is JDK 9.0.1.
2. Follow installation instruction.
3. In window system environment, set JAVA_HOME to JDK 9
   for example: JAVA_HOME = JAVA_HOME=C:\Java\jdk-9.0.1\
4. In window system environment, set to path to JDK 9 binary folder
   for example Path=...;C:\Java\jdk-9.0.1\bin;...

To Install JDK 9 in Debian Stretch

1. Add Backport repository to /etc/apt/sources.list
   # BACKPORT
   deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
2. Install JDK 9 straight forward
   # apt-get install openjdk-9-jdk openjdk-9-jdk-headless openjdk-9-jre openjdk-9-jre-headless

Note:

1. You can remove your JDK 8
2. Android Studio 3 and earlier does not work with JDK 9. You may used JDK 8 that bundled in Android Studio 3 (tested on Android Studio 3 in Windows 10).

Your Eclipse Oxygen (version >= 1a) may be find with JDK 9, but you need to migrating your application library from JDK 8 to JDK 9 with these steps (tested on Windows 10):

1. "Package Explorer" right click -> Properties
2. "Java Build Path" -> Library (tab)
3. Remove JRE System Library [JavaSE-1.8]
4. Click "Add Library" botton
5. "Add JRE System Library" -> Next -> "Workspace default JRE (jre-9.0.1)" -> Finish
6. Click Apply botton
7. Click Apply and Close botton 

Reference:

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Configure_Eclipse_for_Java_9 

Centos 7: install epel and speedtest-cli

To install epel

# yum install epel-release

To install speedtest-cli

# yum install python2-speedtest-cli

To run speedtest-cli

# speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from PT Media Andalan Nusa (103.253.113.233)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by CBN (Jakarta) [0.74 km]: 3.059 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 236.99 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed....................................................................................................
Upload: 186.53 Mbit/s

References:

• https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-rhel-epel-repo-on-centos-redhat-7-x/