There are many tools to convert between AVD (Android Vector Drawable) and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), but there is also a quick-and-dirty hack to do it manually. This works because AVD is essentially based on SVG, with only a few changes and Android-specific attributes. For example, this is a simple minus sign in Android Vector […]
So, I recently upgraded from Java 8 and Wildfly 26 to Java 21 and Wildfly 38. Everything seemed fine… except for some weird stack traces that appeared a few times a day: This exception comes from Java’s deserialization filtering, introduced in newer Java versions and enforced more strictly in JDK 21. WildFly 38 may also
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When working with GitLab CI/CD, sometimes you want to save job artifacts only for protected branches or tags, like main or release/*, while ignoring them on feature branches. It seems simple at first, but as I found out, GitLab’s YAML rules and artifact system have some tricky limitations, especially if you need it while the
So, the Renovate Bot created a PR about the Wildfly version update to 38.0.1.Final from 38.0.0.Final. Business-as-usual, like hundreds of PR before, the Gitlab’s pipeline started, and, its failed: Okay, it is also business-as-usual, there are changes that cause code that used to work to not work anymore, but it usually happens when a breaking
I’ve been looking for a good and up-to-date Docker image for a while, one that can build Android apk and bundle files as part of a CI/CD pipeline, because the MobileDevOps team stopped updating their image a year and a half ago, their latest image version only supports the Android API level 34 and the
What do we want? To query how many messages (and scheduled messages) are in a JMS queue. How can we achieve this? The JMS API does not provide the ability or tools to do this, but we can query this data from Wildfly/JBoss CLI, so that, the information is present on runtime: However, if it
Finally, I’ve just upgraded the Wildfly v26.0.1 (released on January 21, 2022) to Wildfly v38.0.0 (released on October 16, 2025), under the hood of the Power of Planets project. There was a big and significant technical debt in the files that I’d been carrying for months – what months?! – years. The main reason was
The semantic-release is a very powerful tool for automating the versioning of your project based on the commit messages (fix, feat, chore, etc.). The main issue with using it is that it produces a standard SemVer string but does not have a proper output to increment the Android versionCode. In Android, versionCode is a positive integer used by