About a year ago, I started a new Android project. It's called lrkFM and it's original goal was to be a simple file manager for Android. I started the project together with @nsueper as part of a challenge. Since then, I put a lot of work into it....
I sometimes stumble upon Java libraries that are not available in Maven (or Gradle which seems to use the same ecosystem). To have to most convenient way of developing (ie. contributors should not have to download dependencies for themselves) I use my own Maven repository for hosting these....
I found out, how to create a Greenfoot game without having to use the Greenfoot IDE. I'm programming using IntelliJ and building using Maven. It works like a charm and it's a lot more convenient to use this over the Greenfoot IDE....
When you write a Java application, you'll get a `.jar` file in the end. If you launch this file on a mac, you'll end up having the default java icon and you are unable to save the application in the Dock. Fortunately, there is a Maven plugin to package a .jar file into a native .app file....