Recently I was pulled into a project to build an Android app at Endless. While Android is Linux, it’s quite a bit different than “traditional” Linux1. In our case, we’re trying to assemble a Python app into an Android app using python-for-android (aka, p4a). As you might imagine, this adds a couple more layers to the mix, which is always fun. Magnets P4A Apps, How Do They Work? I was pretty mystified by p4a for the first couple weeks, but now that I’ve been down in the weeds for a while I mostly understand how it works.

We recently completed Endless Orange Week, which was a week for all employees to explore a topic of their choosing and expand their skills. I chose to explore openQA. This wasn’t a totally new topic as we’d previously had an openQA setup that we eventually shut down for various reasons. There were several reasons I wanted to look into it again, though: I’m a relatively recent convert to the idea that you should have automated tests for everything you possibly can.

Hey, it’s 2001 2021! Time to start one of these “blogs” I’ve been hearing about. Here you’ll find primarily tech posts about computers and my work at Endless OS. Maybe occasionally a child will appear. Anyways, I hope you enjoy!