TIL about android's "time to take action" accessibility setting

Today I’m open-sourcing Dejavu! Testing UI performance in Jetpack Compose is frustrating. We profile and watch tools, yet regressions still creep in. I built Dejavu to make recomposition behavior something you can actually test.

The answer was no, so I'm building this myself as v2 of github.com/saket/swipe. Here's a first draft:

Did Google ever release this swipe component as part of Material Design?

Good thread. OSS at most companies is really just a handful of dedicated individuals that the company loves to advertise but constantly threatens

Please don't boycott OSS... Follow the authors, maintainers, and contributors to them, as many of them will continue to support their projects regardless of the company they go to. Also, if you can, sponsor these individuals too! Many of them have links for sponsorship on their Github profiles.

What happens to Square / Block Android OSS projects post layoffs? Let's start with some context OSS at Square is mostly a happy accident. Jack hired Bob, who's job was attracking world class engineers, and he did that through talks & OSS.

Most of you have heard about Block's 40% layoffs by now, but the numbers are even worse. Engineering was hit harder, we've lost close to 70% of our engineers. Our leadership is plagued by false promises of "intelligence". The company you once knew as a prolific OSS contributor no longer exists.

CSS-inspired media queries in Compose UI 👀 android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/f...

Looks like Compose UI is finally addressing a long-standing issue on Android where the experience of scrolling nested lists hasn't felt as good as on iOS. issuetracker.google.com/issues/26962...

After six beautiful years in Kitchener-Waterloo, we are moving to Seattle. Grateful for the people and memories that made this place home. Hoping it feels like home too.

🪞New blog post about link previews. Which you're seeing as a link preview. Very meta.

I pre-ordered one! Over the weekend I noticed how often I rush to my phone to note down thoughts before they slip away. A recording ring might make my life easier.

I can finally disable background blur on Android 16. Peak 2025 moment! www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel...

I hope that every programmer I know reads and internalizes this pronto. A foundational document for LLMs in engineering practice. Much here should be obvious, but depending on your POV you will find crucial guidance here in one place or another

Time to buy phones from outside India? Sanchar Saathi might be a helpful app today, but forcing every phone to ship with a government app is a worrying precedent.

Ever wanted to try out Jetpack Palette for extracting colors from images? I built a web demo: saket.github.io/palette-demo/

Jesse and Jake were my CN Tower. I only worked with them occasionally, but I always felt reassured just knowing they were around if I needed help. I'm mad our company lost both of them in the same week, and I'm afraid the entire Android OSS community will feel the ripple effect in the days to come.

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Google Sans Flex (formerly Product Sans) is now open source! fonts.google.com/specimen/Goo...

My designer friends at Google, I love you, but this has to be one of your saddest attempts at copying Apple's UX. www.androidauthority.com/android-flas...

Google made the greatest wallpaper set in human history. Then they just… stopped. Anyone know why?

Casey Muratori pretty much sums up how I feel about LLMs for coding: "The AI will always be useless for me. I physically can't get what I want from programming when AI is involved, because what it is doing is robbing me of the experience that I wanted to have and the knowledge that I wanted to get"

2025 in one screenshot: my phone's AI is talking to another AI on a phone call.

The year is 2100. Civilization has colonized Mars. Android Studio still freezes every time my laptop wakes from sleep.

✨ New article on the latest shadow api in #JetpackCompose Recently, I have enjoyed using them to easily create fancy realistic effects Check out the article, and let me know what you build with these new apis 🤗 www.sinasamaki.com/new-shadow-api-for-jetpack-compose/

Step one after installing Android 16: turn off HDR brightness

A very nice side effect of navigation3 is that google is now publishing these building blocks that other libraries/companies have been hand-rolling for years. We were recently writing something similar for Cash App and found ourselves wishing we didn't have to maintain it ourselves.

Anvil is approaching the icebox, long live Metro. github.com/square/anvil...

I'm a simple person. If a game reminds me of Age of Empires, I'm already reaching for my wallet. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

✨New transition in Twine✨

Implicit enum case matching has long been one of my favorite Swift language features. Very excited to see it coming to Kotlin too. kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsne...

These interactions are rad www.spottedinprod.com/blog/any-dis...

Tried to surprise my wife by arriving early in the country, but Bump, an app I use to share my location with her, gave me away even though I had paused it. Turns out "pause" just blocks you from using the app, while it keeps running in the background. Lesson learned!

Foldception?

I'm excited about a new set of spatial geometry types in the latest Telephoto release to solve this problem. Different coordinate spaces have been a long-standing source of confusion, not only for consumers, but for me too. saket.github.io/telephoto/zo...

✨🎬 New video on creating delightful path animations in #JetpackCompose youtu.be/20b_bshZo84 #AndroidDev #Kotlin #ComposeMultiplatform

Building an image cropper? Telephoto 0.16.0 brings several quality-of-life improvements for building croppers, including a new demo in the sample app: github.com/saket/teleph...

Is anyone using Glide anymore these days? github.com/bumptech/glide

A majority of my time working on a large android project is just staring at this popup

California is so pretty. Wish we could move there if it weren't so expensive.

"Netflix has their own physical cellular tower in the lab that the devices are configured to connect to."

Pro tip: you can right-click anywhere on the android emulator to go back

WHERE IS MY SPRING

A palette cleanser for your timeline today: Introducing Metro! Metro is a compiler-plugin-based dependency injection framework that draws heavy inspiration from Dagger, Anvil, & Kotlin-Inject. www.zacsweers.dev/introducing-...

Note to self: never use fun interfaces in public APIs

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