Obligatory example: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/r...

R8 is effectively free performance optimizations. A little work for an incredibly high ROI.

We're just starting a Spotlight Week on Performance. So get yourselves ready for some g-R8 content.

Navigation3 reaches API stability this week with the 1.0.0-beta01 release! There's a few important bug fixes in this release as well, but this beta means we're only a few weeks away from rc01 and then stable! If you run into any issues, please let us know ASAP developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

I made plot-benchmarks (a tool to view and compare AndroidX Benchmark Results) public. androidx.dev/benchmarks/p... Simply drag and drop the benchmark JSON to the page, and you can start plotting and comparing ! The souce code for the app is here: cs.android.com/androidx/pla...

Since we're doing this... I'll be giving a quick introduction to shaders and how they work. It's a topic that really excites (and scares, a bit) me, lately. I hope it'll get y'all excited too :) But not scared. Even though it's halloween.

I will be presenting at Droidcon London this year to talk about Tracing, and Perfetto ! If you are interested in Perfetto, or App performance in general - this talk is for you. If you would like me to cover something specific, please let me know and I promise to try.

My ex-Apple colleague used Nano Banana with the prompt: "Restore the person in the photo into the Apple Ecosystem".

Happy 79th Birthday 🇮🇳 🎈

We have a new episode of the Android Developers Backstage podcast up -- this time @chethaase.com and I are talking to Melba Nuzen and Ralston Da Silva from the Compose team about Autofill! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb6b...

I finally get to delete the AlarmManager based implementation for work scheduling in WorkManager (after the minSdkVersion update to 23). This was the first _big_ task when I joined the UI Toolkit team in 2018, so it feels like end of an era. android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/f...

Okay, I'm never building a calculator app. chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...

Been working on a new experimental Kotlin Multiplatform Tracing library capable of emitting Perfetto compatible traces. Currently supporting Android and JVM with the goal of eventually supporting other platforms. Here is the README if you want to try it out. github.com/androidx/and...

The Android UI & Jetpack Compose team is building a new team in Bengaluru! Join us in building exciting new APIs for Jetpack Compose as well as the other UI libraries and help us expand to Bengaluru. EM: goo.gle/4gt9dMl SWE: goo.gle/4dQb9w7 PM: goo.gle/compose-pm-in DevRel: goo.gle/3DE8B7T

That feeling when you solve a problem using Coroutines Intrinsics 😍. Can you introduce subtle bugs that corrupt the Coroutines state machinery ? Absolutely. But, when things work it feels pretty great. I still find it funny that Intellij downright refuses to add imports for them automatically.

This is so true. You build so much tenacity chasing random rabbit holes that soon it becomes second nature. Soon everyone thinks you are a wizard but it's all just hard work.

A new blog post about a contribution I made to Wire (github.com/square/wire) recently. rahulrav.com/blog/mutable...

Who needs Advent of code when one can rewrite all those style sheets that used Material Design 2 in the process of rebuilding their blog. 😭 At least it looks nicer now I think. (rahulrav.com/blog)

Android XR was unveiled today! You can download the preview SDK today and start using the Compose and Material Design APIs. I'm also excited that Filament (github.com/google/filam...) powers the experience. developer.android.com/develop/xr

Today marks the ten year anniversary for Android Studio! 🎉 We released version 1.0 on the morning of December 8th 2014: android-developers.googleblog.com/2014/12/andr...

Advent of code - Day 2: The stdlib API I wish I knew existed for a brute force solution (kotlinlang.org/api/core/kot...).

In case you are looking for folks working on Android at Google, here is your starter pack go.bsky.app/Qo41HVG

🎇 After announcing project 'firework' aka. #compose #hotreload, I promised to document the journey. This video will explain the first attempt at implementing Hot Reload: ClassLoaders (why it is great, but not the currently used approach) youtu.be/whUy3JfOX9w

The latest episode of ADB is out! @tornorbye.bsky.social and I had a chat with Shai Barack about system health and performance tools, including Compiler Explorer from @matt.godbolt.org. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXW...

Let me introduce myself. Hi I am Rahul 👋. I work on the Android Toolkit team at Google. I have worked on libraries like: 👷WorkManager - Background processing on Android. 🔘Jetpack App Startup