I’ve not yet used a REST endpoint tester that I liked. I have dreams of building one that would work for me, but I haven’t found a workflow that is any better. Something about using GUI tools for testing REST endpoints that just sucks.

For anyone else going mad that you’ve set JAVA_HOME but Flutter is not picking it up and reporting a different version, you need to configure the JDK path in Flutter itself. It may be getting confused with the version that comes with Android Studios. Use:

flutter config --jdk-dir="$JAVA_HOME"

Oh, and make sure it’s Java 17. Tried building the APK with Java Temurin 25.0.2 and Gradle errored out with this super useful error message:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
25.0.2

Great job, Gradle. Always helpful. 😛

Degraves Street. I’ve lived in Melbourne my entire life, yet this is the first time here.

Devlog: Well Read - An Inkwell Client for Android: lmika.org

Grew frustrated with Android a few days ago and wondered if I would ever switch to iOS. But after setting up a pipeline for a Flutter Android app, being able to side load it directly from the build artefacts is way too good a feature to throw away. So I can’t see myself switching anytime soon.