TIL from colleague....very handy! docs.new - Opens a new Google Docs document sheets.new - Opens a new Google Sheets Spreadsheet meet.new - Starts a new Google meet call slides.new - Opens a new Google Slides presentation

👤🟢 Speaker reveal #5 — Welcome @filipebaptista.bsky.social, Senior Engineer at Volkswagen Digital Solutions! 🎤 🇮🇹 🔎Talk: “Speeding Up on the Highway – MAN Driver App: A story of an app rewrite without Roadblocks Using KMP” 👉🏻 Curious who else is speaking at #dcnit25? → it.droidcon.com/2025/speakers/

open.substack.com/pub/pragmati... 🧵 1/4 This post from @pragmaticengineer.com about 'New trend: extreme hours at AI startups' really shows how rotten our tech industry it is. We went from a model where the mental health of people here priority and 4 weekday work to a model of burnouts

Video of my talk at @kotlinconf.com 2025 now publicly available youtu.be/O0BqoLcRuJI?...

can't wait to not be able to read anything on my iPhone

Google announced Material Expressive at #IO25 and Apple talking about Expressive Material at #WWDC25 😀

Parallel Rendering Mode experimental option when using Compose Multiplatform #KotlinConf

Pretty sure many Android devs are still around on this platform. Reply saying hi 👋 so everyone can find you. This will help people find a big bunch of colleagues to follow 👏👏 RT this for more reach! 🙏

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it! blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-... #gradle

Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of beautiful still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones. These individual artworks are free to download “by individual fans to further enjoy Studio Ghibli films”. [kottke.org]

🤗 Mellum is now open source on @hf.co! It’s a focal model that is small, efficient, and made for one thing: code completion. ⚙️ Trained from scratch by JetBrains. 🌱 First in a growing family of dev-focused LLMs. 🔗 jb.gg/hi_mellum

I was looking for a quick solution to do a before-after demo on some changes for a PR, and discovered that the Running Devices tool panel in Android Studio allows splitting the view just like the code editor. 🤩 What a handy way to do side-by-sides! #android #androiddev

Did you know there's a page showing all the Compose easing options visually, with not just the graphs but also practical examples of offsets, scale, and more? A true hidden gem in my opinion - it's super hard to search for, but well-worth bookmarking! developer.android.co...

Slides if you want them: docs.google.com/presentation...

🎉 Big win for KMP devs! The latest Android Studio Narwhal now supports Compose Preview for KMP projects! 🚀 This makes UI development smoother! 🎨 developer.android.com/studio/preview #AndroidStudio #JetpackCompose #KotlinMultiplatform #ComposeMultiplatform #DevTools #Kotlin #AndroidDev #iOSDev

🚀 Streamline your mobile app development with Fastlane in #KotlinMultiplatform projects! Gustavo's latest post shows you how to automate tasks for both Android and iOS.

🚀 Should you use Kotlin Sequences for Performance? I have always thought that using asSequence() was the way to optimize chained operations in Kotlin. But after benchmarking, the results shocked me: Sequences are often slower! 😱 #Kotlin #AndroidDev chrisbanes.me/posts/use-se...

New post! Why you should use EmptyCoroutineContext instead of Dispatchers.Unconfined. code.cash.app/dispatchers-...

🚨 Major KMP Update: Debugging Kotlin in Xcode with SPM is now possible! Simplify workflows for iOS teams while scaling Kotlin Multiplatform. Read @kpgalligan.bsky.social ’s breakdown:

Big Kotlin Multiplatform update for native mobile teams! With SKIE 0.10.0, and some helpful tweaks from KMMBridge 1.2.0, you can locally browse and debug Kotlin code, in Xcode, using published Swift Package Manager dependencies! touchlab.co/spm-kotlin-d... (cc: @touchlab.co @tadeas.bsky.social )

Use Kotlin's 𝙡𝙖𝙯𝙮 wisely. It's generally not necessary if the underlying value is cheap to initialize. Both codes here are similar except the one on the right does a bunch of unnecessary allocations.

Benchmarking can be tricky! In this blog post, I show an example of how easy it is to get the wrong results and how to fix it: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/y...

I have just published KHttpConstants, a library that provides a set of pre-defined constants for commonly used HTTP headers and status codes. KMP Version coming soon. github.com/kikoso/khttp...

Arrow 2.0 IS HERE!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sfn...

Exciting news! We're publishing free Android Automotive builds for the Khadas VIM3, allowing anyone to create their own affordable developer kit! Grab a VIM3, add a touch display, and you’ll be ready to go! www.snappautomotive.io/developer-kit We can't wait to see what you'll build!

It's unbelievable what a small group of dedicated people can achieve. Couldn't be more proud of my friends and colleagues at Snapp Automotive, and basically the whole Snapp family 🎉🔥 www.snappautomotive.io/developer-kit

This post by @zachklipp.com on how to centre things in Compose is a master lesson on the compose layout system. Really recommended 💯 blog.zachklipp.com/centering-in...

Today seems like a good day for a new blog post. blog.mmckenna.me/a-curious-ca...

I love Kotlin but please don't abuse its features. I regularly see code like in the first function when you can instead write a simple if statement: it's shorter, easier to read, and doesn't allocate an object! Thankfully both functions compile to the same assembly when R8 is turned on.

Uh! Basic support for Swift export! 👀 blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/...

Good Morning #AndroidDev! Last week we realized that Retrofit was slowing down our main thread. Let's talk about it! It all started with an ANR (see screenshot). You can see we're on the main thread and starting async http request with Retrofit by calling OkHttpCall.enqueue(). #perf

I would like to share that I have released the Gradle Plugin of my svg-to-compose project! It is a #KMP project with its own parsing algorithm that parsers both SVG/XML to ImageVector (and, in the future, Canvas and VectorPainter) and it is available on Maven for usage! ⚠️ Long thread ahead.

I spoke to 100+ mobile devs about app monitoring. The pain point? Jumping between tools to find root causes. So we built Measure—an open-source tool that gives you the full picture in one place. Check it out and star on GitHub: github.com/measure-sh/measure #AndroidDev #iOSDev #Kotlin #SwiftLang

Tests are pretty great I went from, "WTF, how did customers end up in that state" to "Oh crap, that's weird" to "Okay I had better consolidate everything in the database and do some transactions" to "Done" in about 12h Also great: observability and databases

Currently at 96 Compose libraries at composelibraries.com Made it super simple to submit your library (you just need a URL) Images are also back to make each one stand out