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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Everyone’s watching Davos - so we’re talking about some of the other European news. This week: potatoes in Berlin 🥔, a leaked “Made in Europe” proposal, and an interview with a sitting UK cabinet minister on the UK’s “reset” with the EU. www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes...

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.

🚇 Metro 0.10.0 is out! - @Inject is now optional for most @Contributes* annotations! - KMP Milestone: FIR hint/top-level function gen enabled by default in 2.3.20+! - Perf: Sharding and switching providers support - Lazy maps - LOTs of fixes and improvements github.com/ZacSweers/me...

Giving it a shot

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...

Sharing the Resonant Computing Manifesto I just signed: resonantcomputing.org, I agree with the vision it outlines. Check it out, and if it resonates with you - join me in signing it.

Canada stands with Ukraine. Our new loan guarantees and financing will support a just and lasting peace — and help the Ukrainian people rebuild and recover.

It makes no sense to me that the shutdown button for an iPhone is located under General Settings.

Metro 0.9.0 is a big performance release focused on optimizing generated graphs! github.com/ZacSweers/metro/re...

Jesse and Jake were my CN Tower. I only worked with them occasionally, but I always felt reassured just knowing they were around if I needed help. I'm mad our company lost both of them in the same week, and I'm afraid the entire Android OSS community will feel the ripple effect in the days to come.

Cash Android has recently switched to Metro, a new, fast dependency injection framework built for K2. That was a fun project and we're really happy with the results! Sharing details on how we approached the migration to help teams adopt Metro: code.cash.app/cash-android...

I'm surprised how bad Gboard's predictions still are in 2025, especially in languages that are not English. This feels like an area where LLMs surely would shine, but apparently not? Or Google just doesn't care enough about Gboard?

In a highly modularized codebase, typing full Gradle task names can be tedious. Gradle supports task name abbreviation: just type the shortest unique prefix. If ambiguous, Gradle suggests candidates. ⚠️ Use locally for speed, but keep codebase references explicit for readability!

🚇 New episode coming in hot! We’re talking Metro, Zac Sweers’ new Kotlin Multiplatform-first DI library. Fast, focused, multiplatform magic. 📅 Oct 8 on Twitch

Things that make me grumpy: - Friends who send five one-word messages vs one five-word message. - Mobile operating systems that don't batch notifications and have no problem buzzing me five times within five seconds.

📣 The KotlinConf'26 Call for Speakers is OPEN! Share your Kotlin expertise with the world – server-side, web, desktop, mobile, AI/ML, and more! Submit your proposal and get a chance to speak at the year's biggest Kotlin event! 👉 https://kotl.in/conf26-submittalk 👈

Video is already up (!!) youtu.be/jVfmtVKa604?...

Really enjoyed presenting my talk called "Communicating Effectively as an Engineer" at droidcon Lisbon today - thanks for attending! Slides are up on my blog! #dclx25 www.egorand.dev/communicatin...

Thanks for joining my @droidconLisbon talk on visual testing for adaptive layouts! Here are the slides: speakerdeck.com/alexzhukovi...

Here are the slides from my talk at Droidcon Lisbon 2025! Thank you all for attending! ❤️ docs.google.com/presentation... #dclx25 #AndroidDev

Don’t have a ticket yet? 🎟️ Use code GDG_DC_LISBON at checkout for 30% off! Big thanks to droidcon Lisbon and the #GDG community for making this possible! 👉 pretix.eu/droidconLisb... See you all on Thursday! 🖖

Hello #AndroidDev #FlutterDev 👋 Who's ready for #dclx25? It starts next Thursday! 🗓️ Two days of talks in the beautiful city of Alcochete, just across the bridge from Lisbon. So you'll have plenty of time to explore and fall in love with the city. I've gathered a couple of suggestions together 👇

Metro 0.6.0 is out now with revamped graph extensions, lazier validation, a bunch of improvements to Dagger interop, and a ton of bugfixes! The biggest change here is graph extensions are no longer detached and wired much more like dagger subcomponents now. github.com/ZacSweers/me...

Video + slides here: publicobject.com/2025/06/25/c...

Stop calling AI a "junior engineer" blog.mmckenna.me/stop-calling...

🪿📱Introducing Goose Mobile An exciting new experimental project in the goose ecosystem! Goose Mobile is an open agent that runs directly on your Android device, designed to maximize automation of your everyday tasks. github.com/block/goose-...

Trailblaze got some new updates today! There's an official yaml spec defined in the trailblaze-yaml module. The examples will be updated by the end of this week. There's also new memory tools available so the agent can remember screen state for later assertions. github.com/block/trailb...

Remember the marble diagrams used to explain RxJava? My brilliant colleague Kostya 🧙‍♂️ has made an interactive explainer for Kotlin Flows to match! Find the magic here: terrakok.github.io/FlowMarbles/

I wrote a blog post re-introducing Paparazzi's accessibility snapshots, highlighting the many recent updates they have gone through! code.cash.app/paparazzi-ac...

Super excited to be speaking at droidcon Lisbon this year, and it's a topic I've wanted to explore in more depth for a long time. See you there!

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You can now watch the recordings from KotlinConf on the website - and they're also in the app, in case you quickly wanna find the recordings of sessions that you've bookmarked earlier! kotlinconf.com/talks/

I'm really sad that Pocket is shutting down, I've been using it for many years to track my technical reading. Can anyone recommend any similar alternatives? Thanks!

A pattern is only useful until it gets in your way. Over the years I’ve seen way too many devs defending ideas only because they were written in a book. Be open minded.

KotlinPoet 2.1.0 is up - our first release since 2.0 and first in 2025! 🎉 github.com/square/kotli...

Stealing a robot's job before it steals mine!

It's finally out! 😅 Catch my Kotlin 2.1 feature video on guards on the 'tube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsKC...

New blog post: Parallelism with Android SQLite blog.p-y.wtf/parallelism-... What started an ANR investigation ended up with a deep dive into Android SQLite's connection pool... #AndroidDev

TIL macOS has a built-in speedtest/network quality analysis tool: networkQuality

💥 I did an explainer about how Android rendering works! This is part of a series on rendering, I’ll be showing how each platform renders so that people can learn and compare/contrast

I came across these Android Quick Guides in the official documentation developer.android.com/quick-guides. They're supposed to be very practical and only take a handful of minutes to be used. Found some interesting ones. I'll write them down in the thread 👇 #AndroidDev

Really enjoyed recording this episode of The Developers’ Bakery with @cortini.co, thanks for having me! thebakery.dev/93/

🎧 new episode #253 is out! logcat - a new look at logging with @p-y.wtf from Square. Listen here: fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/253/ #AndroidDev #Podcast

I really love my Fitbit tracker, can easily hit my hourly steps goal by washing a few dishes!

I wrote a blog post that's really just an excuse to trick you into watching @worrydream.com's Inventing on Principle talk

Spiritbox's latest singles are absolute kick ass, would really love to see them live!

Drumroll please 🥁 #dcldn24 videos are LIVE! Rewatch all your favourite #Android talks & reexperience the fun of our #AndroidDev event here 📼: www.droidcon.com/content/?fil...