Got Object?

This week I’ve been playing with the Android SDK using IntelliJ IDEA. One of the problems that I encountered when I was creating an Android project in IDEA was the error “cannot find any Android targets in this sdk.” After surfing the net for a bit, I found the solution to this problem here. To paraphrase a bit, the solution is to simply run tools/android, under android_sdk_YOUR_OS, to retrieve the targets, check the option that says “force https to be fetched using http” under settings. And finally, under “Available packages,” select the version of Android you want.

Every time I used Java 5 new locks I found myself writing the same lock.lock(); try {…} finally {lock.unlock();} over and over again. Sometimes I’ve even coded, unintentionally, a lock.lock() instead of a lock.unlock(). Because of this and other reasons which I won’t share (i.e., I don’t like to copy & paste stuff) :) I decided to automate the addition of the Java 5 locks via IntelliJ live templates. How is this going work? Simply type lock[tab] and voila you will have a new a Java 5 synchronized block written for you

$LOCK$.lock();
try {
    //tocode
} finally {
    $LOCK$.unlock();
}

p.s.,
I almost forgot. In order to make the previous live template to work for both write and read locks, you will have to set the $LOCK$ variable as a variable of the type Lock (i.e., variableOfType(“Lock”)).