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October 13, 2016October 13, 2016

Solving Android Crosswalk WebView black flashing with Cordova

Sections of our GroupAhead apps are pure native, and others are hybrid. When switching between these screens, there was an irritating black flash appearing after upgrading from Crosswalk 14 to Crosswalk 21. It was happening in the Crosswalk WebView when setting:

getWebView().getView().setVisibility(View.GONE);

1	getWebView().getView().setVisibility(View.GONE);

as well as

getWebView().getView().setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

1	getWebView().getView().setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

After debugging in Android Studio, it appears that there’s a confg.xml parameter that …

December 26, 2015

TeamCity JSON API

If you’re trying to interface with a TeamCity installation via JSON, there’s scant examples of how to form your requests. The (limited) documentation available works exclusively in XML. I got stuck while trying to trigger a build with a custom property. I was able to add a new build to the queue with a JSON …

August 27, 2015August 27, 2015

fix for xcode ERROR ITMS-90034 – Missing or invalid signature

There’s no shortage of obscure Apple issues that arise when building iOS apps as part of an automated build system like the one we’ve built at GroupAhead. I recently hit the most obscure issue ever, so thought it was worthy of sharing in the hope it saves time for others. When signing apps, I was …