Official mesh gradient support #JetpackCompose is coming soon👀 available in Compose 1.12 alphas at the moment! what other graphical effects do you want?

Android is now Compose-first: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c... It was years in the making, and I'm happy to see it's finally here!

androidx.tracing 2.0.0-alpha04 is now available. Here is the release notes. Happy tracing ! developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

I will be speaking at Android Makers about the internals of the androidx.tracing library and how benchmark driven development ensures low overhead tracing. If you like tracing, profilers and benchmarks - this talk is for you! androidmakers.droidcon.com/2026/rahul-r...

My fav new feature in the latest Android release is "Connected Displays".🖥️ You are able to plug in your phone to a big screen, and benefit from all the extra space that the screen provides 🤯 This means you should *really* ensure your app works on diff screen sizes.

To demonstrate how the various new FlexBox properties affect layout behavior, I created a little visualizer experiment: sanbeiji.com/experiments/... Try adding items, messing around with the property values, etc., to see how things change! Example code changes appear at the bottom.

Jetpack Navigation 3 Skill developer.android.com/guide/naviga...

Our lead visual designer wrote about the complexity of designing for transparent screens. Learn how we approached building Jetpack Compose Glimmer, the design language for Glasses experiences on Android XR. design.google/library/tran...

And we're off to the races! The Year of the Horse Android figures I designed are now up in my shop! shop.deadzebra.com Happy 🌝 New Year everyone! #ArtToys #Android #AndroidDev #LunarNewYear

It is the year 2026, people are still confused about compileSdk and targetSdk. (e.g. you can have targetSdk that is higher than compileSdk) www.liutikas.net/2026/02/13/R... Maybe this will explain it a bit more. #android

The new major version of androidx.tracing is now available on Google Maven. We’ve spent the last year optimizing it, so it's extremely low overhead. The documentation is available at: developer.android.com/topic/perfor... Happy Tracing!

It was such a cool event! It was an honor to help with judging, and it was great to see folks bringing their creativity and talent to build experiences on #AndroidXR with #Gemini

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

I'm seeing more and more instances of "we don't look at compiler output, so when LLMs generate code, we don't need to look at the output" LLMs are not compilers. With a compiler, you provide a highly detailed spec and know exactly what you are getting.

👀 Want to see a preview of what's coming up in #JetpackCompose? We heard you that debugging shared elements is tricky. In 1.11.0-alpha03, a new composable LookaheadAnimationVisualDebugging was added. Wrap your SharedTransitionLayout to add visual cues to track down those hard to debug issues. 🐛⤵️

If you live in the US, and you want to contact your representatives about this topic, the link makes it very easy. You can probably be done in under a minute or two

All of the technical sessions from the event are available online now. Take a look and let us know what you think 💚 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We released Developer Preview 3 of the #AndroidXR SDK, opening augmented experiences development for Al Glasses. To help you build for Display Al Glasses, we are releasing Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design language and UI Toolkit for augmented experiences.

Navigation 3 sets the stage for navigating with scenes! Be sure to tune in to @codewiththeitalians.it at cwti.link/twitch now to see @donaldturner.bsky.social and myself experiment with Navigation 3!

New blog post on how to detect tap on arbitrary shapes with Jetpack Compose, and in general how to easily check if a given set of coordinates is contained inside a path. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/a...

Quick reminder that the Nav3 engineering team will be live in 1 hour answering questions. Ask anything you like about Nav3 using #AskAndroid. Livestream is here: www.youtube.com/live/JsugLEM...

Every day this week we're publishing content to help you get started with Nav3. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/lear.... Got questions? Post them using #AskAndroid and we'll answer them live at 9am PST on Friday here: www.youtube.com/live/JsugLEM....

In case you want to become a benevolent Gradle overlord, I've got you some tips Recording: youtu.be/o99f54pYGgc?... Slides: speakerdeck.com/aurimas/the-... #gradle

It's always exciting when we can share more of what we've been working on. Be sure to tune in to the Android Show for a special XR Edition next Monday if you can goo.gle/TAS-XR

We're hosting a live Ask Android session to cap off Performance Spotlight Week at 6PM CET / 9AM PT today. Tune in and bring your questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMnZ...

See me turning the first screen into the second one, live at @devfest-berlin.bsky.social #android #python

That's pretty cool, maps.google.com seems to be using Filament now. I found its symbols in the WASM file used by the site.

A fun talk on handling fun Unicode bugs in your app by @vladimirj.dev One of my first bugs in Chrome was due to Turkish letters "i" and "ı" that need special handling when changing to upper vs to lower case. youtu.be/CHRgrgCLaOE?... #android #unicode

Thanks @androidweekly.bsky.social for featuring my recent article, 'Understanding the native SDK wrapper pattern in Kotlin Multiplatform', this week! In this article, we’ll explore how RevenueCat’s delegation pattern wraps native Android and iOS SDKs. www.revenuecat.com/blog/enginee...

If you weren't able to attend our talk on Android XR live at droidcon London 2025, the recording is up now. Check it out and let us know what you think www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkbU... bsky.app/profile/pfue...

Happy Birthday Kotlin!

Today I learned you can press F on the chess.com desktop site to rage smash the board when you're mad.

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

Realizing: I'll be in London in a couple of hours! I'm seeing friends and foes from the Android community. And I will be giving a talk about Passkeys and 🎃s! Come, join, let's talk and hangout. #dclnd @droidcon.bsky.social

I ate so many hot dogs for "research" I probably too a decade off of my life. Please play this dimension. Make my sacrifice worth it.

I uploaded jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #285! New Compose BOMs! New Compose Multiplatform alpha! Nav2 -> Nav3 migration! @patilshreyas.bsky.social on keys and lazy containers! Coachmarks! And... do we really want our UI to glitch?!? jetc.dev/issues/285 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

We’re excited to have the official #AndroidDev team back again at #dcldn25 & in an even bigger way than last year! 🚨 Keynote hosted by Matthew J. McCullough & team. Expect office hours, talks, & more, direct from the #Android team at @developers.google.com 📣 Tickets: london.droidcon.com

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.

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'm excited that Jay and I will be speaking at @droidcon.bsky.social London 2025 about Android XR. It would be great to see you there if you can attend!

Want to tune into Design Notes on YouTube? Subscribe here and stay tuned for new episodes 📻✨ music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📢 The androidx.compose.material.icons library is no longer recommended for displaying Material Icons in Compose. We have stopped publishing updates to this library & it has been removed from the latest Material 3 library release, you can still manually reference it if you cannot migrate.

Last chance to get your #T3SummitBerlin ticket! Get a front-row seat to the future of software leadership – don’t miss this exclusive experience. 🚨 www.t3-summit.com/berlin2025

Thanks for having me on stream @peterfriese.dev @nohe.dev ❤️🧡

Your local impact can spark global inspiration at #dcin25 🚀 Take the stage at #India’s first droidcon & show the world what Indian #MobileDevs are doing with #Android today. Gain visibility, credibility, & #AndroidCommunity recognition 🎤 Apply to speak: sessionize.com/droidcon-ind...

We launched the Androidify app on Google Play! Download it now, and create your very own custom Android bot ❤️ I've had loads of fun creating and testing the app - now you can too! play.google.com/store/apps/d... #Androidify

The #AndroidShow is about to begin! Tune in to see the latest updates in the world of Android 💚 maybe you will even see someone familiar 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdpS...

I uploaded jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #278! Compose 1.9.0! Wear Compose RC! Compose Multiplatform beta! Kobweb! Modifier order! String and icon wrappers! And... why is it tough to remember when and how to remember()?!? jetc.dev/issues/278 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev