OK, I released jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #298! Compose Multiplatform 1.10! 🎉 Compose Hot Reload! @eevis.codes on bottom nav bar accessibility! Responsive tab rows! And... a no-Chromium desktop WebView?!? jetc.dev/issues/298 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

Looking back, I've mostly spoken at events abroad and in Turku, so I'm happy to share that I will be speaking at #ScanAgile26 in Helsinki in March! This time, my POV on accessibility is not the most technical, but how teams should value progress over perfection when fixing accessibility issues.

Font scaling is important, but what if UI elements can't scale? I’m borrowing a concept from iOS to build an item previewer in Jetpack Compose. It ensures small icons/labels stay accessible via item previews. Read more: eevis.codes/blog/2026-01... #A11y #AndroidDev

Issue #2 of Inclusive Android Apps is live! 🚀 This one tackles how to build gender forms that don't force binary choices. The practical solutions include multiple options, custom fields, and opt-out choices. Read it: buttondown.com/inclusive-an... #AndroidDev #InclusiveAndroidApps

Issue #2 of Inclusive Android Apps drops Tuesday 📬 This one's about gender selection in forms, why binary male/female choices exclude users, and how to build forms that actually work for everyone, with practical code examples. Want it in your inbox? Subscribe: eevis.codes/newsletter/ #AndroidDev

Compose-tip: When building reusable components, avoid unintentional nested clickable/selectable/toggleable elements, such as a `Column` with `clickable` that wraps a `Button`.

Compose (or Android) tip: Test your app with both button and gesture navigation to avoid breaking the user experience. When not testing with button navigation, it's easy to forget to leave enough padding for the buttons, which, in turn, can make some elements unusable at the bottom of the screen.

First issue of Inclusive Android Apps is live! 🚀 This one's about how Row layouts break when users increase text size - and why FlowRow is a good fix. Read it: buttondown.com/inclusive-an... #AndroidDev #AndroidAccessibility #a11y #InclusiveAndroidApps

Less than a week until the first issue of the Inclusive Android Apps newsletter! The response to the newsletter has been amazing, and I am so excited about it. I already have so many different ideas for the upcoming issues, and just can't wait to launch them! Did I already say I'm excited?

Compose tip: When you create either custom toggleable and selectable components (like switches, checkboxes, or radio inputs), or when you associate said native components with their labels and wrap them with, for example, a `Row`, use `toggleable` and `selectable` modifiers instead of `clickable`.

Android and Compose tip: Don't set a fixed height to components unless it's absolutely necessary. And even then, double-check if it is actually required, and test with large font sizes, such as 200%.

I've been testing different AI tools for generating Android apps and running accessibility tests on them, and now I've finally written my wrap-up of those tests. In short, from an Android accessibility perspective, I don't believe AI will replace developers anytime soon.

So I'm launching a newsletter about Inclusive Android Apps in December! Inclusive Android Apps is a monthly newsletter about making Android apps more inclusive. I cover accessibility, LGBTQ+ inclusive design, internationalization, and other considerations for apps to not accidentally exclude users.

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.

Another Compose tip: If you use `clickable`-modifier, or for example, a Button-component, you don't need to add `focusable`-modifier to that component. If you do, the component gets added twice to tab order, meaning users using assistive technology for navigation would focus twice on that component.

My talk from droidcon London is out! I share about creative coding, and some examples of what it can be.There's also live coding with Jetpack Compose Canvas  🤩 And of course, there are some ghosts 👻 #AndroidDev #Android #Kotlin #Canvas

An Android (and Compose) tip: Use IconButton-component instead of building own, clickable component from an image with modifiers. The button works out of the box with different input methods (touch, keyboard, Switch access, screen reader etc.)

I had a nice chat with in Berlin, and here's the recording, in which we discuss Android community, accessibility, debugging focus issues on Android, and other things. Let me know what you think! #dcbln25 #droidcon #AndroidDev www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO83...

I sent out jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #288! Material3 Adaptive! Cahier! @eevis.codes on font scaling tests! Data tables! And... will Compose work remotely?!? jetc.dev/issues/288 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

While testing Android apps for a11y, the biggest problems I see are with larger font sizes. I'm also often asked for how to write automated tests for accessibility, so I wanted to share tips on testing large font size related problems. eevis.codes/blog/2025-10... #AndroidDev #AndroidAccessibility

Only a couple of days and I'll be in London, talking about Creative Coding! #dcldn25 youtube.com/shorts/b1qnt...

I gave a talk today at droidcon Berlin (It's All About Focus - and Accessibility) and promised to share a link to the blog post with code samples - here it is: eevis.codes/blog/2025-07... #dcbln #dcbln25

Lately, I've been learning about Wear OS development, and naturally, accessibility has been a part of that learning journey. In the blog post, I share my learnings from supporting Talkback to Magnification. eevis.codes/blog/2025-09... #AndroidDev #AndroidAccessibility #A11y

I've been blogging for a while, and there is a thing or two I've learned about making blog posts more accessible. In this post, I share some of those things, from sharing code as text (instead of an image) to considering adding a summary in the beginning of the post. eevis.codes/blog/2025-07...

I just sent out jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #273! Android Makers! @eevis.codes on accessibility focus *and* keyboard focus! FABs and FAMs! PWAs! jetc.dev/issues/273 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

I've seen so much confusion around focus in Compose (TalkBack and keyboard), so I wrote a blog post about their differences, how to make components focusable, move focus programmatically, and change the traversal order for both of them. eevis.codes/blog/2025-07... #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev #a11y

Check out this week's Top 7 featured posts on DEV! Insightful reads from @eevis.codes, and @liztormato.bsky.social, plus five other fantastic authors. #Android #AI #RakuLang #CyberSecurity #DevOps dev.to/devteam/top-...

The next AI tool I've tested for how accessible Android code it generates is Cursor. The accessibility issues I found were similar to ones I've found with Gemini and Junie. While these tests are already painting a picture, I'll do one more round before writing a summary. eevis.codes/blog/2025-06...

I'm continuing on the theme of "Do AI-tools create accesible code", and this time, I tested Junie from JetBrains. The results were pretty similar to those with Gemini before - both test apps I generated have accessibility issues. eevis.codes/blog/2025-05... #a11y #AndroidDev #Junie

After some exciting things taking a lot of time, I finally had the time to publish my newest blog post, in which I discuss the accessibility problems text truncation can create, if it's not done right. I also offer some solutions to these issues. eevis.codes/blog/2025-04...

I just published a new video: Draw a Planet with Jetpack Compose Canvas - Silent Coding!

I just published a new video: Draw Saturn with Jetpack Compose Canvas - Silent Coding!

I just published a new video: Animate Text Colors on Jetpack Compose Canvas - Silent Coding!

Does Gemini provide accessible Android code? 👀 I generated two apps with Gemini and tested how accessible the app is. Result: the first one had multiple issues and the second one had less. I'll test other tools for comparison, so stay tuned! eevis.codes/blog/2025-03... #a11y #AndroidDev #gemini

I might have found the "No ARIA is better than bad ARIA" of the Android world: "No contentDescription for non-graphical elements is better than bad contentDescription". Folks (and especially generative AI), having content description attached to a Button or Text is usually a bad idea.

I just published a new video: Add Text with Custom Fonts to Jetpack Compose Canvas - Silent Coding!

First (half) week back at work done after five weeks of burnout sickness leave. These three days have felt like three years 😅 but I guess it's always like that after longer absence.

I just published a new video: Add Interaction to Heart Candies on Jetpack Compose Canvas - Silent Coding!

So I'm writing a blog post about generating a simple app (UI, not functionality) with Gemini and testing how accessible that app would be. And oh my... When I added the requirement of the app being accessible to the prompt... Let's just say, it did pretty much the opposite. This is going to be fun.

A stark look at the challenges that still face many minority tech workers. A submission for the #WeCoded Challenge by @eevis.codes 🌈 #diversity #DEVCommunity Full post: dev.to/eevajonnapan...

Our (first-ever Mimmit koodaa award winner) @eevis.codes, has created their own YouTube channel featuring coding tutorials and other tech-related content. 🤩 Highly recommended – go check it out and subscribe to the channel. ♥️ #MimmitKoodaa

I just published a new video: Draw Multiple Heart Candies on Jetpack Compose Canvas - Silent Coding!

🚀 Despite much progress, tech inequality persists! 🌍 Many still lack access to crucial technology. Let's bridge the gap and create a more inclusive digital world. A submission for the #WeCoded Challenge by @eevis.codes #InternationalWomensDay 📱💻 dev.to/eevajonnapan...

I just published a new video: Echoes of the Past - WeCoded 2025!

Every time I visit Tampere I'm so ready to move back. I studied here my first masters degree, and when I moved away, I thought I'd never want to move back. But here I am, staring at morning traffic from the hotel and thinking that it would be great to live here again.

I just published a new video: Add Text to Jetpack Compose Canvas - Silent Coding!

I just mailed out jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #255! Viewmodels and previews! TV Compose! @eevis.codes on a safer marquee! Server-defined UIs! And... do I have a right to be forgotten?!? jetc.dev/issues/255 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

I just published a new video: Draw a Heart Candy on Jetpack Compose Canvas - Silent Coding!

So I also created a video about making basicMarquee modifier more accessible. In this video, I'll provide one way of making the basicMarquee-modifier more accessible for Remove animations-setting-users with a custom modifier and CompositionLocal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g50... #AndroidDev #a11y

I have a problem with horizontally scrolling texts, often called as marquees. There's this `basicMarquee`-modifier in #JetpackCompose, and it doesn't respect the Remove animations accessibility setting, so I wrote a blog post how to make that modifier more accessible. eevis.codes/blog/2025-02...