✨ Preparing Twine v3.0 release ✨

Posts layout type toggle in Twine ✨

Umm, I got a bit carried away building new stuff for Twine. Here is one more new feature, themes in the reader screen. App now offers 7 themes for the reader screen - Dynamic (match hero image palette) - Sepia - Solarized - Parchment - Midnight - Forest - Slate

✨New Twine feature✨ Not sure which feeds to follow? Twine now has a discovery section you can browse to get started. It will be shown during onboarding, when adding a feed, and in the main navigation if you just want to browse what's available.

Added a heat map in the stats page of Twine. Thoughts?

Planning to ship this in Twine, a native audio player for podcast feeds 👀

Planning to ship this in Twine, a native audio player for podcast feeds 👀

A sneak peek at some of the new features coming in the next Twine update: - Support for Miniflux and FreshRSS (GReader) APIs - A brand-new Reading Statistics page

A sneak peek at some of the new features coming in the next Twine update: - Support for Miniflux and FreshRSS (GReader) APIs - A brand-new Reading Statistics page

New Twine update v2.11.0 rolling out now to Android & iOS ✨ Made some UI changes to improve user experience, and bunch of new features and customisations, along with bunch of bug fixes. If you haven't already, give it a try!

It's amazing how much AI agents for Android dev has improved. Used Junie and Gemini 3 to build an app I need, and it build the entire app in few hours and required minimal amount of manual changes. Used @stitchbygoogle to generate initial designs to iterate on.

Should I ship some new colorful icons for Twine? 👀

Here are some new changes coming to Twine over the weekend. - Compact bottom bar - New filter and sort options sheet - Navigation drawer for switching screens - Navigation rail for foldable and tablet layouts. - Local new articles notifications - Download full article on sync

Time to wrap up the year with a new Twine update. ✨v2.10.0✨ - New amoled theme - Setting to block images in posts list and reader - Change default font to RethinkSans - UI tweaks in home screen and feeds sheet - Hide app bar and bottom bar on scroll in home screen...

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?...