Introducing Touch Robot, something that has materially changed how I write screenshot tests. We've been using it at Block for ~2 years to catch animation and gesture bugs that static screenshots miss. saket.me/touch-robot/

ShadowJAR demo with @goooler.bsky.social

Android is now Compose-first: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c... It was years in the making, and I'm happy to see it's finally here!

Michael Schumacher ist mein Held #Schumacher #Ferarri #Mercedes #F1

See you next week in Munich! #Kotlin #KotlinConf #JetBrains

Metro reaches 1.0! It's the proudest work of my career and I strongly feel this is how dependency injection in Kotlin should be. Thank you to everyone that's contributed and helped this project get to where it's at. Metro wouldn't be where it is without you. www.zacsweers.dev/metro-is-sta...

Right, this is built on Shadow 😀

It is sadly true - androidx ktx libraries have been killed today and it is all Jake Wharton's doing. Details here: jakewharton.com/an-update-on... #androidx #androiddev

Intellij 2026.1 now ships inspections for Gradle best practices that helped create! www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsne... #gradle

Java 26 / JDK 26: General Availability: mail.openjdk.org/archives/lis... Features: openjdk.org/projects/jdk... Downloads: jdk.java.net/26/ #Java26 #JDK26 #OpenJDK #Java

It’s a bit faster.

If you like what I do, feel free to drop a vote for me.

Jackie Chan leading 'We Are the World' right now. Happy Chinese New Year! 🐎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ei... #JackieChan #MichaelJackson #ChineseNewYear

I added HTTP QUERY method for this version 😀

🎉 Exposed 1.0.0 has finally arrived, bringing: 🐙 R2DBC support 🐙 Stable API 🐙 Performance enhancements Check out the blog post for the full details and migration guide 👇 https://kotl.in/7yl041

You can track the latest JetBrains EAP releases here. github.com/dahlia/homeb...

I want to be there because I want to see Jake Wharton and so many other brilliant developers. #gotokotlinconf26

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 is out! 🎉 What’s new: ✨ Common @​Preview annotation 🧭 Support for Navigation 3 on non-Android targets 🔥 Stable and bundled Compose Hot Reload Learn more: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/01/compose-multiplatform-1-10-0/

Heads up it looks like Sonatype is starting to enforce stricter throttling on Maven Central. If you see 429/403 errors from your runneres, you're not alone. github.com/actions/runn... www.sonatype.com/blog/maven-c...

This is great, native YouTube Music on macOS. github.com/sozercan/kaset

If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from? New blog post on the 'disappearing middle': chrisbanes.me/posts/disapp...

New blog post. Are you taking the pomme? mbonnin.net/2025-11-29_t...

I'm happy to share that I published a new open-source library, Compose Stability Analyzer! This is a plugin that provides real-time stability analysis for Jetpack Compose functions in Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA. github.com/skydoves/com...

Awesome post from @f1xedgear.bsky.social and @autonomousapps.bsky.social about improving Gradle sync times in the IDE engineering.block.xyz/blog/shrinki... #gradle

There's no good reason why people distributing apps outside the Play Store should need to provide their personal data to Google. This is just taking Android into the horrible world of dev accounts and notarization that Apple enforces.

There is an easy way to view AGP sources. I added the version automation based on the great work of @jrodbx.bsky.social github.com/Goooler/agp-...

Shadow 9.0.0 is out! This release is a major update from the 8.x series. The plugin has been fully rewritten in Kotlin, bringing significant improvements to maintainability, performance, and future extensibility. github.com/GradleUp/sha...

TIL, the `buildToolsVersion` of AGP does not default to `compileSdk` but `SdkConstants.CURRENT_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION`, which means even if you are setting `compileSdk = 36`, the `buildToolsVersion` is still `35.0.0`. See: github.com/Goooler/agp-... github.com/Goooler/agp-...

Version 0.34.0 of the gradle-maven-publish-plugin finally comes with configuration cache support. Dropping support for Sonatype OSSRH unblocked us from waiting for Gradle to resolve the underlying issue on their side. github.com/vanniktech/g...

Do you like this, especially for Italians?