Creating and releasing an application

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Creating and releasing an application

I love sim racing, so I thought it would be an interesting exercise to create an application that makes use of Assetto Corsa Competizione (ACC) telemetry.

The basic operation is this:

The client sends a registration message to ACC
ACC replies and starts sending telemetry messages

This is all done over UDP.

ACC messages

The first step was to create a library that could parse the message byte streams. There is a little bit of documentation in the way of some C# code and a ServerAdminHandbook.pdf that can be found in the ACC installation.

Sharing gradle configuration

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Source code for this project is available at https://github.com/prule/gradle-sample

When setting up multimodule gradle projects, we often need to share configuration - such as java toolkit version, plugins, junit platform etc…

Previously I would have used the allprojects or subprojects block to do this, but now we have convention plugins. These are locally defined plugins which contain the configuration we want to share. The submodules can then apply those plugins without needing to copy and paste the configuration - this makes it easy to selectively choose which plugins to apply to which module.

Gradle on Pauls Blog

Creating and releasing an application