Why writing open-source is so beneficial.
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A story of a one-hour side project that took half of the night.Easy! That sounds like AT MOST hour worth of work!That’s how it all started.Fast-forward half of the night later, I am figuring out how to upload a library snapshot for every single of my 22 commits in the repository.Story background.Okay, let’s back up a little.Ever heard of ExoPlayer? That’s a pretty awesome player library from Google. Yes, the one that has a demo app, which used to be able to play Youtube videos in background (anyone paying for YouTube Red for that feature ??).When Google developers released ExoPlayer 2.x.x they thought about releasing ExoPlayer 2 with a different package name, but they seemed to forgot to change the artifactId of the published snapshot. All this made it:Possible to use ExoPlayer 1 and 2 side by (...)
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