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Organize Astrophotography Data

This is a Ruby script to help organize astrophotography data into folders using keywords that can then be used to help process in PixInsight using WeightedBatchPreProcessing.

This version of the script was written to organize or reorganize the data collected to match my current workflow, which I will outline below.

Camera

I currently use a Canon EOS 1500 (T7) DSLR for astrophotography, and attach it to one of my telescopes. Data capture is performed using the ASIAir Plus. In the ASIAir app, my camera's settings are configured to include ISO, Date, and Temp in the customized file name.

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inline fun <reified T> T.forceParcel(): T? where T : Parcelable {
    val bytes = Parcel.obtain().use {
        writeParcelable(this@forceParcel, 0)
        marshall()
    }
    return Parcel.obtain().use {
        unmarshall(bytes, 0, bytes.size)
        setDataPosition(0)
        readParcelable(T::class.java.classLoader)
    }

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How to create custom button styles using Android's AppCompat-v7:21

Introduction

AppCompat is an Android support library to provide backwards-compatible functionality for Material design patterns. It currently comes bundled with a set of styles in the Theme.AppCompat and Widget.AppCompat namespaces. However, there is a critical component missing which I would have thought essential to provide the a default from which we could inherit our styles: Widget.AppCompat.Button. Sure, there's Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionButton, but that doesn't actually inherit from Widget.ActionButton, which does not inherit from Widget.Button, so we might get some unexpected behavior using that as our base button style, mainly because Widget.ActionButton strictly belongs in the ActionBar.

So, if we want to have a decently normal default button style related to AppCompat, we need to make it ourselves. Let's start by digging into the Android SDK to see how it's doing default styles.

Digging In

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import com.android.tools.lint.checks.StringFormatDetector
import com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.LintDetectorTest
import com.android.tools.lint.detector.api.Detector
import com.android.tools.lint.detector.api.Issue

class StringFormatDetectorTest : LintDetectorTest() {
    override fun getDetector(): Detector = StringFormatDetector()

    override fun getIssues(): MutableList<Issue> = mutableListOf(
        StringFormatDetector.ARG_COUNT,

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package com.pixite.pigment.testing

import android.app.Activity
import android.app.Instrumentation
import android.content.Context
import android.content.Intent
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment
import androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity
import androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager
import androidx.lifecycle.Lifecycle

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package com.pixite.pigment.testing

import android.app.Activity
import android.app.Instrumentation
import android.content.Context
import android.content.Intent
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment
import androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity
import androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager
import androidx.lifecycle.Lifecycle

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def propertiesFrom(filename) {
    def properties = new Properties()
    def file = rootProject.file(filename)
    if (file.exists()) {
        properties.load(new FileInputStream(file))
    } else {
        System.out.println("[WARNING] Properties file ${filename} not found. Returning empty properties.")
    }
    return properties
}

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signingConfigs {
        debug {
            storeFile rootProject.file("signing/debug.keystore")
            storePassword "android"
            keyAlias "androiddebugkey"
            keyPassword "android"
        }

        release {
            def keystoreProperties = propertiesFrom("signing/keystore.properties")

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task copyApks(type: Copy) {
    ["debug", "release"].each { type ->
        from "build/outputs/apk/${type}/"
    }
    into "apks/all-${AppVersion.fullVersionCode}-${gitSha}"
    include '**/*.apk'
    rename { String filename ->
        filename.replace("app-", "").replace(".apk", "-${AppVersion.fullVersionCode}-${gitSha}.apk")
    }
}

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/**
  Copyright 2019 Joshua Kovach

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software