I migrated to the Android Screenshot Plugin, and I suddenly miss the Kover's code coverage. Here's the fix: hrach.dev/posts/androi...

I built a tiny IntelliJ IDEA plugin for something that had been bothering me for years github.com/saket/intell...

It's interesting how clearly Google vs Apple shows up in something as small as virtual devices frames. iOS simulator: sharp, natively rendered Android emulator: transparent PNG, rough corners with jagged edges

In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster

hasUAVisualTransition landed in Firefox 149, making it available across all major engines. As well as having a very catchy name, it lets you avoid doubling up on page transitions. Here's how it works:

What happens to Square / Block Android OSS projects post layoffs? Let's start with some context OSS at Square is mostly a happy accident. Jack hired Bob, who's job was attracking world class engineers, and he did that through talks & OSS.

2022: We need to figure out a way to stop AI from wanting to kill humans 2026: We want AI to kill humans

Nav3: fix Lifecycle for overlaid nav keys - a bugfix for you if you're already on nav3. hrach.dev/posts/nav3-f...

A bit of my Nav3 experience - first ModalBottomSheets hrach.dev/posts/nav3-m...

I want to use Kotlin 2.3 because of certain features. To use it, you need AGP 8.13 to avoid R8 issues and thousands of build warnings. But if you use IntelliJ IDEA like me, no luck, buddy. It supports only 8.12 for now.

Want to re-raise this banger of an article, which really helped frame the differences between atproto and bluesky, and turned me into a convert for atproto bsky.app/profile/dana...

The Kotlin ecosystem might not choose a strict 'SemVer' notation (and it's gonna be fine!) blog.sellmair.io/the-kotlin-e...

👀 Want to see a preview of what's coming up in #JetpackCompose? We heard you that debugging shared elements is tricky. In 1.11.0-alpha03, a new composable LookaheadAnimationVisualDebugging was added. Wrap your SharedTransitionLayout to add visual cues to track down those hard to debug issues. 🐛⤵️

I think we should aim for both. Modern hardware should reasonnably be able to create a graph with hundreds of thousands of nodes in milliseconds. Of course that doesn't work if there's IO in between but this is where we need Gradle strict mode.

The iPod shuffle turns 21 today!

GraphQL scalar specification just got LocalDateTime. Love it! 😍🎉🎄 github.com/graphql/grap...

New GraphQL scalar specification contributed by Jakob Merrild: `Long` scalars.graphql.org/jakobmerrild...

The release candidate for Nextras ORM 5.1 is out! This version is a service pack for the 5.0 branch. It fixes a lot of edge cases and quirks, and also brings a few new features. github.com/nextras/orm/...

CSS text-decoration-inset landed in Firefox 146! Here's how it works:

@ianlake.bsky.social Please, would you be willing to comment more on the recommendation about AlertDialog not being a separate nav entry? Do you think the same about bottomsheets? Why yes or no? Thank you a lot.

The problem, my dearest Mozilla Foundation, is that donations to you do not fund the development of Firefox, which is the primary reason Mozilla has influence regarding Internet and technology issues. Firefox is the invitation to the conversation and the […] [Original post on alpaca.gold]

Instead of more of OOP (extension functions, default interface methods, overloading)... we get this. PHP goes to a direction I don't wanna follow. (Nothing against functional programming, though).

Nav3's back vs up recipe is up! Great job, I love it <3 github.com/android/nav3...

That Gemini on phone doesn't sync with Google Assistant on my home devices is one the biggest product f*cl ups imaginable. Google punishes you for being in their ecosystem.

Google actually cracked Apple’s AirDrop to add it to Pixel phones. How long until Apple blocks it? www.theverge.com/news/825228/...

Another Android accessibility tip: if you have `indication=null` set to your interactive components, it's likely that you're preventing anyone relying physical keyboard or d-pad for navigation.  This is, of course, if you haven't implemented proper focus indicators, which don't include ripples.

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...

you know it’s a bad Cloudflare outage when it even takes out down detector 😅

KMP detected! @mbonnin.net

I migrated to Hetzner .... after a month, I received an email - German Federal Security Office scans IP addresses and reports them when there is a public-facing MySQL port - WOW. A mistake (default config) on my side. Love this!

GitHub: So, we've noticed you have a large screen. What about removing recent issues first, and then reintroducing them instead of the feed? #progress

Oh yes GitHub, I think 40 comments are enough, feel free to just not show the other feedback I got on my PR.

Navigation 3 question: So I'm trying to create a Scene where the user may drag "down" the screen. Since the drag cannot be driven through predictive handling, it has to be an OverlayScene. So far, so good. To make it work, I'm using a Popup.

Working on more custom options - Compose Stability Analyzer

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

Copy Link to Highlight is finally coming to Firefox 145! Expected release date of 2025-11-11. Viewing text fragments has been supported since Firefox 131, released over a year ago. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1993501 #firefox #webdev

That, along with synthetic back stacks and different handling whether you are on your own task stack or another apps' task stack (which is the only time when back and up differ), is going to be the next PR after this first one.

Deeplink recipe for Navigation 3 is here! github.com/android/nav3...

Gecko: Intent to ship: WebGPU on macOS Tahoe for ARM64

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it. They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers. But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released! ✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline 🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations 🛫 Integrated JFR support 🚟 Kotlin suspend function support 🛑 Support for cancelling test execution ⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher 🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs docs.junit.org/6.0.0/releas...

This continues to sound like an absolutely awful time. The changes give Google unreasonable control over all Android devices and brings everyone closer to the locked down Apple experience. The current Play verifications and warnings for untrusted sources should be enough.

Totally! And they have unfortunately burried a setting to turn it on under advance settings.

With ✨Swift 6.2 ✨, you can now target WebAssembly, including WASI support. Get started here: www.swift.org/documentatio... #Wasm

This! 💯

Another issue, another set of uncomfortable questions. Time time, they are about the proposed Android developer verification program: commonsware.com/blog/2025/08... #AndroidDev

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.

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading 

HTTPS certificates can exist without the CN (Common Name) field. It's not used for validation, instead browsers use the SAN (Subject Alternative Names) field. But if your tool uses CN for anything, e.g. to show a "name" for management purposes, check whether the tool works with CN-less certificates