hello, Mathias!

Hello hello

how can I help you today?

Long time no see! hope all is well

i had a question about push notifications

I don't do much with those, but I can try to help

I looked in the omnibus, but couldn't find much about it. Am i correct that it does not cover it?

I used to have a chapter on GCM, but I pulled it quite some time ago, as it was out of date

and that was even before Google started rebranding it to FCM

so, no, I do not have any current material on that subject

Yeah, that's why i got in here - i took a peek at the GCM webpage, but its SO confusing...

exactly, that rebranding...

yeah, and the fact that they keep changing the API means that a lot of community-developed material will be out of date

AFAIK, though, the FCM API hasn't changed that much, post-rebrand

i've done it on IOS, so just started looking at it and was looking to see if you had any pointers. no worries!

so, anything you see written specifically on FCM is probably up to date

right

ok

that being said, YMMV

right. well ill look around

thx

Oh, just remembered, i have a puzzling gradle think i maybe can ask you about?

*thing

go right ahead!

ok. so i migrated from spring to gradle a while back

in my gradle i have some dependencies that are aar

for example

play-services:5.0.9 seems old

in my /build/intermediaries/exploded-aar, i have a folder for each of my aar dependencies

however, they are there since a long time. If i remove them and build with gradle, they do not re-appear, and my whole intellij-project goes bonkers (it cant find lots of dependencies, things turn red)

so, my question is, do you have any idea what i am doing wrong?

yeah i know, but i cant upgrade since they moved all api's for geofencing around (of course...) and i don't have time to re-write right now...

have you switched development machines since this app was created?

no. and that's why that dir is still there. I noticed this error because i moved my git repo and checked out clean :)

so i had to manually put those folders back in to build

for the play-services dependency, go to your Android SDK installation, and look in extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services, and see if 5.0.89 is there

with regards to StickyListHeaders, it would appear that their 2.7.0 artifact is up on Maven Central, which should also get mirrored to JCenter

so, double-check whether you are pulling in from mavenCentral() or jcenter()

in modern Android Studio projects, that would be determined by default in the allprojects { dependencies {} } closure in the project-level build.gradle file

well, i have it in my "regular" repo, since i share between spring/android, but its not in the sdk-dir

I do not understand what the "regular" repo is, I guess

i pull from jcenter

well i have configured the sdk to use a repo in another dir

OK

you might try a command-line build, using --refresh-dependencies

Gradle only checks for dependencies once per day, if it thinks that it has already satisfied them

so that might help convince Gradle to go pull down the artifacts again

you might also check your Gradle cache (e.g., ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/) and see if either of these artifacts appear there

and what versions they are, based on the downloaded POM files

right. hangon ill look around

ok so i built with gradle from command line, worked fine, no problems. But nothing appears in "exploded-aar"

that may reflect changes in the build tools

looking at a project that I am working on, I do not see an exploded-aar directory either

and I'm pretty sure that some of my dependencies are AARs, not JARs

(e.g., recyclerview-v7)

I haven't gone looking for exploded-aar in some time, though I recognize that directory name, having seen it before

right

so the problem is not the build or the apk, my problem is with intellij. My jar-dependencies get included fine, but the classes that are in my aar's are not found and all calls to them become red

weird

I haven't used IntelliJ IDEA itself in some time

i could add them manually i guess, but cant see why intellij doesnt check up the dependencies

oh? what do you use?

Android Studio

which is based on IDEA, of course

exactly :)

its basically the same thing

um, I don't know if I'd go that far

regardless, I have no idea what you would change in IDEA to help here

ok. i tried it and well there's some more stuff in intellij, but it works the same

no problem, i'll continue to look around!

aar seems to indeed be some intellij-issuue, have logged a ticket

oh well, gots to go. thanks for the chat!

happy to help!

(will extend license in october)