Live Blog: Groovy Android programming
This blogpost will keep track of our current progress on our effort to make Groovy run on Android phones. Instead of creating a summary like in the previous ‘This Week in Discobot’ posts, we will update this blogpost every half an hour! Erik (20:36): after a nice dinner, we make a small plan for the evening. Marcin will work on committing and pushing the Gradle Android plugin into our Github fork, while my plan will be to continue to build a small Android application which will run the entire Groovy testset on Android, to assure...
read moreTesting reusable validation
In the application we are developing, a lot of input validation takes place. Most of the input is validated using Command Objects, which are a breeze to use thanks to Grails’ fantastic way of integrating them. However, in some of our Command Objects, there’s some overlap, most notably in the validation part. For example, we use a CreateCustomerCommand and a OrderProductCommand, which both have a ‘zipcode’ field, which, in our case, matches the regular expression [0-9]{4}[a-zA-Z]{2}. Since we don’t want to...
read moreThis (two)week(s) in Discobot (27-28.2011)
We continued our work on getting Groovy working on Android over the past two weeks. Erik has made quite a good progress with the tests suite for Discobot. What he has achieived by now now is a slightly modified original Groovy test suite running against the compiled but not packaged (jared) code of our patched version of Groovy on his laptop. And of course it’s all green! As we removed some unnecessary classes and had to patch other, because the Dalvik VM doesn’t provide all the classes that regular Java does, Erik also had to...
read moreThis week in Discobot (26.2011)
Currently, we (Erik Pragt and Marcin Erdmann) are working on getting Groovy to run on Android and make the process as smooth as possible for other developers. On this blog regular updates will be posted to inform you about the progress we made, the problems we ran into and how we solved them. This is the first episode of ‘This week in Discobot’. As you’ve probably seen on twitter, Erik managed to finally run a really simple android application where the main activity class is a groovy class. We had some problems with...
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