I am having hard time believing there is no way to cleanup this temporary system files without doing factory reset! Constantly trying to delete my pictures gets old pretty soon! Does anyone know cure to this? 😞 #Android #StorageBloat

Looking forward to doing nothing this weekend! 😌

Wow, this is great news for OSS community! 🎉 Also checkout Jake's post on this jakewharton.com/the-lysine-c...

New release of Compose Syntax Highlight now has custom dom parser and is up to ~1 ms faster and APK size will be ~100KB+ smaller! 🚀 github.com/hossain-khan... #SyntaxHighlighting #AndroidDev

O oh! I already uninstalled copilot from every place! Subscriber graph must look like reverse hockey stick 📉 Free you say? 🧐

Looks like I spoke too soon about the Android developer verification process 🥸 When I tried to register my app, the eligible key is not what I use to sign release build anymore! So, the one I use now is not eligible!? 🤦🏽‍♂️ #GooglePlay #AndroidDeveloperVerification

I recently learned about Zensical from Zac's Metro project which migrated from MkDocs to zensical.org based site. I also tried to use it for my recent experimental project. Not having full Kotlin syntax highlighting was bothering me, so I applied client side shim to re-highlight using Shiki.

The recent syntax highlighting experiment on compose worked really well. So, I thought why not use the engine to also add support for simpler editor use-case? 🤔 It did work nicely, once engine is initialized, roundtrip to highlight is under 5-15ms #AndroidDev #SyntaxHighlighting

Noticed this new banner in the Google Play console today about Android developer verification. I guess this is happening despite real friction in the community.

Desktop Mode idea on Android is great - however to make great use, need to support better output quality. I am using 4K monitor with 1080p and max size and I see pixeletted icon & images + not so smooth texts. Nevertheless great dev article: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/andr...

Official Kotlin support in VS Code has graduated from experimental to alpha! yay! This is big! Now, Firebase Studio can be great for Android dev ;-) marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... #Kotlin #VSCode

Watching the #KotlinConf keynote during the weekend. This slide made me proud even though I know the app list is in random order! 😆

Wait! what's going on? 45GB of temporary Android OS files? What are those? On device LLM models? Usually gemini nano is under 10GB. #Google can we cleanup these OS files that are not needed anymore please? it's eating up my ~40% space of Pixel. #GooglePixel #Bloat

Yes! 🥲

Thanks for featuring my new library that supports syntax highlighting for modern compose apps 🙏 It uses old tech in interesting way that modern AI chat apps use today. github.com/hossain-khan... #AndroidDev #SyntaxHighlighting

Copilot is definitely out the door with the new changes coming in few weeks. Need to figure out new token provider! 😂 bsky.app/profile/hoss... #GitHub #Copilot #👋🏽

This is definitely a welcoming structural change for KMP projects blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/... Wondering if Amper (github.com/JetBrains/am...) would be able to support the same structure! 🤔 #Kotlin #KMP #Amper

I am sure this has special code name and meaning at @github.com - I would love to know! I feel like it's losing its value gradually! 🥲

Thanks Android Weekly for featuring my article last week on some investigative work I was doing related to adding syntax highlighting support on Android, specifically Compose 🙌🏽 #AndroidDev #SyntaxHighlighting #no-sync

Quick investigation revealed that modern AI chat apps like Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity etc uses an unique technique to do syntax highlighting on Android devices. The idea is simple - run Highlight.js in a hidden WebView and convert the output to native AnnotatedString. #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose

All I want is go back in time! 🫥 Much much less things to worry about.. even better go back enough where mom and dad only worries not me! Good old times!

Well well well, it looks like GitHub just dropped the ball on subsidized LLM token usage via Copilot. Now, you have to abide by pay-per-use model, easily costing 2X-10X or even more based on your usage! 💸 Good luck from June 1st! 🙃 #GitHub #Copilot

This is a huge milestone for Metro! and also for the Kotlin community 🚀

I wrote about using hybrid solution to bring syntax highlighting to Android about 6 years ago! Since then I did not find any great solution that does syntax highlighting on compose natively, until very recently I found `kotlin-textmate` that bring full power of TextMate grammar based highlighting 🎨

The cost of pay-per-use AI tools has gone down over time - this upscaling be recraft-ai only took one cent! 🖼️ Combining multiple sources of AI tools can definitely give you super power to create what you want! :-) 🤖 Replicate is my one stop shop to try out different AI tools on-demand.

Really packed post about new agentic tools for #AndroidDev 🤖 A great start to catch up to webdev world and potentially automate me away 🥸 android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/buil...

It's been a while my raspberry pi 4 died which had the pi-hole installed, I missed it for so long. Not anymore, got the cheaper SBC from Libre called 'sweet potato' and the sinkhole is back online! #NoAds 🙌🏽

This whole post is full of wins 📈 ...also love the metro entrance art! 🚇 Metro is nearing 1.0.0 release soon! great time to migrate or adopt for you app! 🚀 #Metro #DI #🚇

After moving away from Medium recently, I have been having lot of fun as I got full control over the blog site. Here is a new post about some fun I have been having on the site along with new og-image ;-) #astro #blog #cloudflare

Wow, Gmail seems to have upped their in-mail ads - now the ads are scattered throughout the email list. Just because it's promo tab doesn't mean you can just flood the list with more promo ads 🤣 Google must be desperate for more money! 💸 #Gmail #GoogleAds #🙅🏽

Just migrated a simple Android app (15k loc) to 🚇 Metro DI. It was almost hands free migration from Dagger 2 + Anvil. I downloaded metro repo, pointed Sonnet 4.6 to the `docs/` directory an boom 💥 30 minutes later it was done. Also, when I downloaded Metro, all of it was only 3.3 MB 🤯

I have been procrastinating to get off Medium for a long time to mainly avoid paying for service and to avoid maintaining another self-hosted service. Now, I feel that management part is now solved 🤖 I shall get on migration this weekend! 💪🏽

Running local model using Ollama is fun idea. However, small and midsize models just doesn't cut it. Also my machine doesn't have capability to go beyond 8-10B param models! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah! I guess I can just relax for few days until it resets! 🥸

Thank god 👓 glasses don't need batteries to operate! 😅

Yes, this is a full website built by Microsoft for Azure portal. It doesn't even start with `<html>` tag! 🤯 Does it work!? yes, it does! 🤷🏽 #Microsoft #Azure

This actually makes sense to me! sure it's a hassle wait 24 hours on my new phone.. however after that it's always available to install APK from non Google Play store source. #AndroidDev #AdvanceFlow

Anxiety of leaving unused monthly token allowance is real! 🔥

This is impressive - a great collection of skills to make website shine ✨ Now I wonder, would all websites built with this be impeccable and look the same? 🧐 impeccable.style

This was a delightful surprise and a great example of craftsmanship in product. I have almost never used customize folder on macOS, until now - then when I opened Fork (fork.dev) app, I noticed the same tag showed up! 🤯 amazing! 🤩 #Git #ForkDev

M5 Macbook Air on-route! 💻

My gripe about no official macOS tool for transferring files from 📱 Android device is over! Found this #open-source tool that does great job at it! Finally at peace again! 🙏🏽 openmtp.ganeshrvel.com

TIL: A tool called Glances. I needed to monitor my windows laptop state using termnil on mac! this fits nicely within my use-case! github.com/nicolargo/gl...

Just saw the horrible news of Block / Square layoff. Always looked up to the amazing people and their open-source contributions. Hoping all the best for the affected people 🙏🏽

Participated in a hackathon event for two days, had lot of fun using AI tool 👨🏽‍💻 Hardest part was making a demo an conveying the idea! 💡

Benchmarks can say all it wants, but #Gemini on Google home is horrible, and the worst part is there is no way to downgrade to classic assistant (easily*) 😑 This was a simple question: what's the time in istanbul now? #GoogleHome #Fail

Added a simple in-memory LRU cache to my image processing pipeline. 453ms → 0.28ms ~1,200x faster ⚡️ Sometimes the biggest wins come from the basics.

After making several #TRMNL recipe/plugins for my need & fun, I made this nifty badge generator for all my open-source recipes! 👨🏽‍🍳 hossain-khan.github.io/trmnl-badges/

Apparently, I am HTML developer based on GitHub stats on all my repos! 🤨🤣

Memory shortage, and how HDD shortage... everything is going downhill from now on! 🤦🏽‍♂️ I was really looking forward to having next gen ROG Ally! Not sure if that will happen anytime soon! 😔