Office Hours Transcript: 2021-06-15

Hi there

Why did you change chat clients?

And how are you?

I have a class that I want to unit test that uses Log.d(). Have you had that case and how do you solve it?

I used Robolectric some time ago but disliked it for some reason I don’t remember right now.

Timber might be something. How can that be used for better testing?

(ofc it’s a Jake Wharton thing X) )

Good morning Mark!

I started a new job as consultant, and using a completely different stack, have some curiosity, but first thing first, I have a problem with a View and would like to know what I do wrong

Basically I have a View on top of layout, I need to use this view only the first time and basically what i need to do is to dismiss it if user tap outside this view, namely on the screen externally to this view, I am into a fragment, and cannot use DialogFragment because need to use some references to guideline

I tried to make the view visible like this

val popUpMessage = findViewById<View>(R.id.fragment_home_first_time_pop_up)
val coverView = rootView.findViewById<View>(R.id.cover_view)
val trianglePopUp = rootView.findViewById<AppCompatImageView>(R.id.fragment_home_first_time_triangle_pop_up)

    coverView.visibility =View.VISIBLE
    popUpMessage.visibility =View.VISIBLE
    trianglePopUp.visibility =View.VISIBLE

    coverView.setOnClickListener {
        popUpMessage.visibility =View.GONE
        trianglePopUp.visibility =View.GONE
    }

basically I use a cover view that is transparent inside my constraint layout and then

    <View
        android:id="@+id/cover_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="#00000000"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:visibility="gone" />

and with onCLickListener or onTouchListener I try to dismiss inside the lambda, but it works only if i tap more than one time

how can manage that a View in a fragment is cancelled if user touch outside this view

?

(sorry for the long question)

ok never mind

mmh good idea, I did not use

(OK)

(btw i am not senior to work as (independent)consultant, just I am working in a company that do a lot of app, so I feel like that)

thanks

I used to work with synthetics(i know is deprecated) in my old company, basically i write an id in the layout and I am good to go calling_text.setOnCLickListener for example no need to do any viewfindbyID

but in this new projects they use a lot of references as ``` val homePageBanner = rootView.findViewById<CarouselView>(R.id.fragment_home_carousel_view)

otherwise i get a null pointer exception, how is possible that I use synthetics and get every sort of NPO if I do not bind the view to the id?

NPE*

ah I see maybe is because i use a lot of <include

yes my senior asked me also

Why do you replace them? Is it a refactoring thing?

But that ain’t reason enough for a lot of companies, as it costs money to refactor without any visible benefit for the customer.

Ok

I see

I would like to pose another small theoretical question

in my new job inside the fragments(we use single activity) in the onActivityOnCreated is everywhere rootView.findViewById<>()

I have never used a rootView and do not get from the internet

is something to refer to the activity beyond the fragment?

I noticed that the app works both if I do findViewById than rootView.findViewByid

     * <p>Finds the topmost view in the current view hierarchy.</p>
     *
     * @return the topmost view containing this view
     */
    public View getRootView() {
        if (mAttachInfo != null) {
            final View v = mAttachInfo.mRootView;
            if (v != null) {
                return v;
            }
        }

        View parent = this;

        while (parent.mParent != null && parent.mParent instanceof View) {
            parent = (View) parent.mParent;
        }

        return parent;
    }

I did control +B inside my app

is View.java

line 24670

amen

is not coming from synthetics

is through this ``` var sampleImages = intArrayOf(R.drawable.temp_banner, R.drawable.ic_vomar_logo, R.drawable.temp_banner, R.drawable.temp_banner, R.drawable.ic_more)

override fun onCreateView(inflater: LayoutInflater, container: ViewGroup?, savedInstanceState: Bundle?): View? = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_home, container, false).apply {
   //TODO IVO make better
    val homePageBanner = rootView.findViewById<CarouselView>(R.id.fragment_home_carousel_view)
    homePageBanner.setImageListener { position, imageView ->
    }

TODO IVO make better :D :)

I used OkHttp recently to call a web page with post multiform data and wondered if there is a good way to wrap it. Or if I should have used something else :)

I used it at a couple of places, but because of multiform data it got a bit longer, so I wanted to "wrap" it.

In another function or similar.

ops sorry

sorry was called by the colleagues

is an hectic job

but is improving me a lot

@mark I do not not see the stack trace of the chat

(server was reconnected, thanks)

thank you very much and sorry if i was not focused today, but super busy @moment

Same