Using those sweet drop shadows for a glowy slider, with some extra interactivity when it's at 100% ✨ www.sinasamaki.com/glow-slider/

Anyone got good book recommendations for learning more about OpenGL shading language or shading languages in general?

🧊 back to experimenting with cubes again. There's something magical about faking 3d elements 🪄✨

My talk: The Busy Android Developers Guide to Perfetto is now up on YouTube ! Root-causing problems is a lot of fun. Once you start you can't stop 😜 Happy Tracing !!

Playing around with custom shapes and shadows in Jetpack Compose. Nothing fancy, but it's kinda fun and interesting.

Playing around with custom shapes and shadows in Jetpack Compose. Nothing fancy, but it's kinda fun and interesting.

Back at it again! New Twine update rolling out now ✨v2.9.0✨ - Improved featured section and color extraction - Support XKCD comics - New font for featured and reader title - Support media groups and thumbnails - Dynamic color caching - Improved reader content parsing

It has been such a fun few days. Got to hangout with some amazing folks!

My talk on Navigation 3 from #dcldn25 is live (very impressive publishing from the droidcon team!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Oi...

It was such a fun day at Droidcon London yesterday. Meet a lot of amazing people and interesting conversations. I haven't taken any photos though yesterday, hopefully I will remember to take a few photos today 😅

Woohoo! Finally visiting London. Can’t wait to meet bunch of folks 🙌🏾

rememberGraphicsLayer() is amazing! 🤩 Using it, I can split a Composable into multiple slices and animate them separately, like in my glitch effect. www.sinasamaki.com/glitch-effec...

Back home for few days, I can finally work on Twine again over the weekend. Want to explore using Navigation 3 and improve large screen support for the app 👀

Designers when an android engineer ask to just use the system back arrow: “our custom back arrow is an expression of our brand, we cannot yield to looking like a Google app” Designers when Liquid Glass looks like shit everywhere in their app: “LEROY JENKINSSSSSSS”

Time to switch back to using Android fulltime. It's been a while, gonna miss some nice indie apps from iOS though.

Brand new day, brand new role. Joining Google as a UX engineer for Android Developer Experience. One more goal achieved 🙌🏾

Twine now allows users to save entire articles for offline access. Open the reader view, and it will automatically download the content. Hopefully I can add a setting in next update to preload content. github.com/msasikanth/t...

✨ New Twine update rolling out ✨ In case you're wondering what the perf changes are, it's handling unnecessary recompositions because of dynamic theming I had implemented 😅

New Pinnit update rolling out with bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements. play.google.com/store/apps/d... play.google.com/store/apps/d...

TIL, there is `retryWhen` extension function for Kotlin flows. That's neat!

@sebastiano.dev it looks like LookAheadScope and animateBounds is enough to animate the LazyVerticalGrid cell changes. Obviously the transition isn’t perfect but I think adjusting animation timings and playing around with fade spec for other items should improve it.

Let’s go! Finally we can match shadows from Figma properly without drawing them on canvas (at least that’s what I did in the past 😂)

This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Nowhere close to done, but finally starting to setup Fresh RSS Google Reader API integration for Twine 👀 github.com/msasikanth/t...

Oh god! Not another trauma filled story from night city 🙃 www.theverge.com/news/698579/...

This is a nice addition to Android Studio/Intellij Idea. I can just quickly test out all my API calls without having to switch to a different app. www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/ht...

It’s been a little over 2 years since me and @pratti.bsky.social started working on Twine. v2 of Twine is now available on App Store and Play Store - Updated designs - New layout modes - Improved performance across the app - Unread posts widget - Reader customisations links 👇

Well that took a bit of an effort. Time to work on shared element transitions next. github.com/msasikanth/t...

One more important change in the next version of Twine. There is no reason to update all feeds at same interval. So, essentially ranking them based on their update freq and updating each feeds refresh interval. github.com/msasikanth/t...

✨New transition in Twine✨

Added first paid feature of Twine. I should be able to release an update by end of today or tomorrow.

Few shows I have been watching lately that I like - Lazarus (Anime) - Nine Puzzels - Clarkson’s Farm - Murderbot

Any remote Android engineering roles available? 👀

All my free time is consumed by this game now, not particularly good at it though yet 😂

It's not yet available on the Play Store. However, Twine now offers three distinct viewing options for the home screen. If you dislike having the carousel displayed at the top, you can turn it off or choose a simple layout with no images, displaying only the titles.

Time to finally catch up on Android sessions from Google IO. Starting with this 👀📝 youtu.be/80qkStdDWXQ?...

Finally pre-populating few feeds when creating database for the first on Twine. For now adding kottke, HN, NYT and TheVerge, got any other suggestions? 👀 github.com/msasikanth/t...

I thought I could just pass initialKey to the Paging library and it would just load pages starting from that index, but that didn't work when using it in a HorizontalPager. So, I guess I am stuck with this code 😂

🌀🎉springy paths wrapped around ui elements

New update rolling out for Twine. - Better dynamic color integration & more colorful image blurring for light and dark modes - Brand new reader screen design - Bug fixes and improvements Slowly building up for v2 release 👀 github.com/msasikanth/t...

Woohoo, Twine made a very brief (one frame 😂) appearance when Compose iOS stable is announced at KotlinConf 2025 🙌🏾🙌🏾

Woohoo! Twine is showcased in the real world Compose Multiplatform for iOS apps.

Thanks to @chrisbanes.me adding support for unbounded content blurring in Haze. I can finally use it in Twine 🙌 github.com/msasikanth/t...

Slowly converting my PC to a home server where I can self host content. Need to get more RAM and storage.

Finally mango season 🥭

Reading RSS content is a worthwhile but skillful activity

Weekend game sorted out 🎮 Played a bit on my PC and I loved it! The soundtrack is 🤌

Managing a local plex server seems much more easier lately 😂

Well my Linux desktop is finally stable without crashing after removing a faulty RAM. Downside, I am stuck with 16GB of RAM now 😅

I should've gone for a non-tempered glass computer case, another shattered panel 🥲