Originally published at https://tigeroakes.com on July 20, 2020. I just set up Mozilla Central with a git wrapper so I can contribute to the main Gecko codebase using Git. It works great, but the default branch has an unusual name compared to what I’m used to. > git branch branches/default/tip bug1602126 You can create symbolic references in Git, so that the default branch has a name you’re used to.

Originally published at https://tigeroakes.com on July 20, 2020. I’ve been trying out Jetpack Compose on a personal project and liking the API. Compose is a pretty big API shift, and I’ve found my React knowledge much more helpful than my Android knowledge. …

Originally published at https://tigeroakes.com on July 10, 2020. To support full-bleed icons on various platforms, there’s a new PWA icon purpose called “maskable icons”. By providing an icon with padding, the web browser can crop it to fit alongside other icons (especially on Android where different manufacturers use different shapes)…

Originally published at https://tigeroakes.com on July 6, 2020. I like easy access to documentation written in comments. In Android Studio, and other JetBrains editors, you can display function types and docs on hover when you turn on a simple setting. In Android Studio’s settings window, go to “Editor” > “General” and check “Show quick documentation on mouse move”. You can leave the delay at the default value.

Originally published at https://tigeroakes.com on April 13, 2020. This weekend I’ve been tweaking Big Island Buses, my bus schedule web app, and pre-rendering parts of the app. This was also my first time using Eleventy to build a site! Like many web apps, most of Big Island Buses’ UI was…

Originally published at https://tigeroakes.com on March 7, 2020. Your mission is to migrate a website from a server-side CMS to Jamstack. The site is 15 years old and is currently built with Drupal. All the pages need to be converted to markdown. …

Hacktoberfest is a worldwide event to celebrate and support open source. Firefox Daylight for Android will be part of Hacktoberfest again this year, and we have put Hacktoberfest labels on many of our GitHub issues! Working on Firefox Daylight (codenamed Fenix) is a great way to contribute to a web…

We recently added a neat little animation to Firefox Preview: In Firefox Preview, you can grant a website access to your location and microphone. When you toggle those permissions off, a line appears and grows diagonally through the original icon as it fades to gray. To create the animation…

This is the third post in a series about working with Javascript events and using a single event listener to handle related elements. Part 1: Simplify your listener code Part 2: What about click events? Extra examples addendum Here are some additional examples to demonstrate how to take advantage of a single event…