There's a weird and arbitrary limitation in Dalvik, and the Facebook guys needed to work around it. The author makes it sound like it's some horrible sin. How about shaming the Google developers who thought 65k methods was enough for anyone? Wouldn't be good proper either, because they probably had a good reason for it.
Software development isn't always stacking neat abstractions on top of each other. Sometimes you have real hardware and real legacy and you just got to deal with it, one way or another.
Software development isn't always stacking neat abstractions on top of each other. Sometimes you have real hardware and real legacy and you just got to deal with it, one way or another.