flutter "detected problems with api compatibility"

In the android/app/build.gradle file change the targetSdkVersion from 27 to 28.

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49957255/espresso-test-on-android-p-preview-detected-problems-with-api-compatibility-err

flutter "unable to start activity" "ensureInitializationComplete must be called after startInitialization"

Flutter app fails to launch with the following error:

 Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: ensureInitializationComplete must be called after startInitialization  
     at io.flutter.view.FlutterMain.ensureInitializationComplete(FlutterMain.java:190)  
     at io.flutter.app.FlutterActivityDelegate.onCreate(FlutterActivityDelegate.java:156)  
     at io.flutter.app.FlutterActivity.onCreate(FlutterActivity.java:89)  
     at net.pawpalflutter.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:10)  
     at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6672)  
     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1140)  
     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2612)  
     ... 9 more  

This error occurred when loading app from Android Studio to a mobile phone. It seems the transfer of the app may have been interrupted abruptly and didn't close properly, causing all subsequent transfers to fail.

The Solution

Power off and on the phone

Reference: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/14513

Intellij Dart Analysis Server Bad State: Too many elements

This error was also causing an issue "cannot find declaration to go to"

After doing a flutter upgrade, I had to do the following:

1. Close IntelliJ
2. delete the project's .idea folder and any *.iml files
3. Reopen the project in intellij

If that doesn't work try File -> Invalidate caches / restart and repeat the steps above

PlatformException(sign_in_failed, com.google.android.gms.common.api.ApiException: 8: null)

Using the flutter framework for android development, I received the following error during google signin:

PlatformException(sign_in_failed, com.google.android.gms.common.api.ApiException: 8: null)

While it wasn't obvious from the error message what the problem was, it turns out there was no network connection available. So if you get this error, check that you have access to the internet!!

Node.js Centos 7 production configuration

Install nodejs

Download

wget --no-check-certificate https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.1/node-v10.15.1-linux-x64.tar.xz

Move the downloaded file /usr/local

Then unpack

tar xf node-v10.15.1-linux-x64.tar.xz

Add node executables to the path by adding symlinks to /usr/bin

ln -s /usr/local/node/bin/node /usr/bin/node

ln -s /usr/local/node/bin/npm /usr/bin/npm

ln -s /usr/local/node/bin/npx /usr/bin/npx

Install pm2

To run node as service we need to install a nodejs package

npm install pm2@latest –g

We need to run set the path to pm2

ln -s /usr/local/node/bin/pm2 /usr/bin/pm2

ln -s /usr/local/node/bin/pm2 /usr/bin/pm2-runtime

For security reasons we should run our app NOT as root. We create a new user nodejs to run our app

useradd nodejs

chown -R nodejs:nodejs /usr/local/node

chown –R nodejs:nodejs /usr/local/node-v10.15.1-linux-x64

# as root

pm2 startup system –u nodejs –-hp /home/nodjs

To start the application as the nodejs user, switch to the user nodejs

su nodejs

pm2 start /usr/local/node/apps/chat/server.js

pm2 list

# to automatically start the app on reboots

pm2 save

You should see that the app is running as user nodejs 

Likewise to stop

#other commands

pm2 stop /usr/local/node/apps/chat/server.js

pm2 delete /usr/local/node/apps/chat/server.js

Install ArangoDB on Centos 7

The instructions on the official arangodb website do not work, so I’m documenting the steps I took so that it may help others.

The first problem is adding arangodb as a repo due to invalid SSL certificates. To get around the issue:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

curl -OLk https://download.arangodb.com/arangodb34/RPM/arangodb.repo

The added ‘k’ parameter connects to the repo insecurely skipping the step of verifying the certificates.

Before we can run the yum command to install arangodb, we need to configure the arangodb.repo to skip SSL checks by adding the following to the file /etc/yum.repos.d/arangodb.repo

sslverify=0

Then run the command to install:

yum install arangodb3

References:

https://superuser.com/questions/1057905/adding-no-check-certificate-to-yum-repositories

https://www.arangodb.com/download-major/centos/

Grails 2.4.4 Spring tool suite STS - failed to read artifact descriptor

Recently, we started having issues downloading dependencies for our Grails projects running on Java 7 with the following error:

 failed to read artifact descriptor 

I was basically trying to run a 'grails clean' command on the project through STS eclipse (version 3.6.4). I was aware with the community finally disabling support for version TLSv1 and suspected it might be related. I made all attempts to specify TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 in various configurations in STS without any success. I tried in the STS eclipse INI file using the argument

-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2

I also tried setting the https.protocol in the JRE definition of eclipse:

Windows -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs -> jdk1.7.0_79 -> Edit -> Default VM arguments

No luck either.

I finally decided to run 'grails command' on the command-line where I had JDK version 8 running by default:

C:\grails\grails-2.4.4\bin\grails clean

| JVM Version: 1.8.0_171
| Application cleaned.

You can see that using Java 8, it was able to download all the dependencies successfully.

It's not ideal to have to use the command-line to get the dependencies downloaded, but once it's all cached locally, then you can switch back to STS to build and run grails-apps.