Josh Burton

Freelance Mobile Developer

@ Ark Labs


Auckland, New Zealand



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Blazing Gradle builds with a remote build cache


Gradle’s build cache is a great way to speed up builds and if you’re not already using this locally, you should be! But what about CI…

Josh Burton

March 8,2019

Kotlin Metadata, Jackson and Proguard


Kotlin Metadata, Jackson and Proguard If like me you are having issues deserializing json with Jackson into Kotlin Data classes, then this…

Josh Burton

March 8,2019

Disabling Touchwiz Icon Frames


Disabling Touchwiz Icon Frames Samsung’s TouchWiz interface is known for completely customising the look and feel of Android, but this time…

Josh Burton

March 8,2019

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How to speed up your slow Gradle builds

How to speed up your slow Gradle builds It’s a few weeks after I/O ’17 now and I’m sure you’re all making your way through the many sessions…

Josh Burton

March 8,2019

Taking the Associate Android Developer Exam

Taking the Associate Android Developer Exam I recently took the Associate Android Developer exam . You should too! The Associate Android

Josh Burton

January 8,2010

Using custom styles with Google Maps Android API

Google Play Services 9.6.0 introduced a long awaited feature — custom map styles! Map styles allow you to customize the color, visibility…

Josh Burton

March 13,2019

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