📢 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.

I cannot describe how bad this is for tech companies. Not the $100K fee on *new* H1Bs, but that their software engineers currently abroad can be turned back (or detained?) at the border with ZERO notice! It brings uncertainty to running a business in the US. Plus (cont’d)

I could really relate to the passion of writing software. The assessment of AI as unethical theft of everyone's work was just cherry on top.

Properly tracking Gradle properties in configuration cache is a long awaited feature! No more cc invalidations when running with a different -Pfoo=bar if those properties are read through provider API and read at task execution! #gradle

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

A fun read on difficulties of currently code-highlighting Kotlin code flofriday.dev/posts/50-sha...

California SB 1043 (The Accountability in Children's Treatment Act) is a recipe to create honeypots of highly sensitive information for hackers to go after. It also massively curtails the privacy of all Californians. Please each out to Gavin Newsom and plead him to veto it! www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

A nice talk by @skydoves.bsky.social on the basics of building Android libraries youtu.be/0K_X4uNbU8U?... I would only note that metalava is a lot more powerful than Binary Compatibility validator, it can tell if your changes are safe, not just that it changed.

From the #Gradle Community: "Parallel Bits - Which Parts of Gradle Run in Parallel", from the knowledgable @liutikas.net 🫶 www.liutikas.net/2025/07/29/P...

I've seen a number of folks working on Gradle plugins struggle with writing a plugin that builds on top of another Gradle plugin, so I wrote a short post that talks about some of the gotchas in that work. www.liutikas.net/2025/09/04/G... #gradle

This codelab is really good! I'm going to comment on a few things, but other than those, this is a way better than what I've seen before! #AndroidDev

I have capacity for maybe 1 casual mentee. If you are a junior dev in Android/Build/Tooling space and you are serious about wanting some advice/tips, reach out!

Since everyone is talking about LLMs I wrote a short post on how to put some bumper rails up for them. www.liutikas.net/2025/08/18/L...

I will be presenting at @gradle.com hosted #dpesummit2025 in SF in September. I'd love to chat there if you'll be attending! dpe.org/sessions/aur... #gradle

Jetpack Compose 1.9 is out and comes with a lot of great new APIs: outer/inner shadows, new visibility modifiers, a new prefetching behavior to improve scrolling performance in lazy layouts, etc. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what...

A perk of working on a diligent team is digging into odd failures in various tools. Today we found that a change of @Deprecated to @Deprecated(level = HIDDEN) will incorrectly reuse build cache entries. I am very proud of finding this bug youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-80126 #gradle #kotlin

Gradle 9.0.0 is finally out. It took 2.5 years since 8.0. I really hope the cadence gets faster for 10.0.0. docs.gradle.org/9.0.0/releas... #gradle

Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town/vibe-code

A recent discussion has led me to realize that many folks do not fully grok the parts of Gradle that can be made parallel. By default almost all of Gradle runs in a serial way. So I wrote a post about it www.liutikas.net/2025/07/29/P... #gradle

I wrote about new Gradle phases added by the configuration cache feature and how the cost of them can be minimized. www.liutikas.net/2025/07/24/N... #gradle

Hey @kotlinconf.com, isn't it time to ditch that X field or replace?

Ain't that the truth. Although Linus is maybe not the best person to compare against.

Playing around with the UI for fun. Designing such micro-interactions and animations is a breeze thanks to Compose. P.S. If you didn't catch it, a full vinyl rotation takes exactly 1800ms. That's 33 RPM 🎶💿

Just submitted a talk proposal. I hope you do too!

"Nations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction." - Why Nations Fail

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

A great breakdown by @mbonnin.net on why you should avoid the "kotlin-dsl" Gradle plugin. Just write your binary plugins using a normal "org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm" plugin mbonnin.net/2025-07-10_t... #gradle

I wrote a post about how JUnit4 continues running tests when some of the test methods fail: www.liutikas.net/2025/07/02/E... #junit #android

It is kind of hard to stay optimistic about the future of the US. It feels like there are new regressions to minority rights, immigrant rights, support for science, the environment, and health. 😔

New from 404 Media: Flock has cut off cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia from national lookups after our investigations and others based on our reporting. Comes after we revealed cops doing lookups for ICE and an abortion case. Massive changes to this tech www.404media.co/flock-remove...

A fascinating talk by @sellmair.dev about the journey in creating the Compose Hot Reload. I highly recommend it! youtu.be/UebhKUdO2sQ?...

In case you were unable to attend KotlinConf, the recording of the talk "APIs: How Hard Can They Be?" is now up: kotlinconf.com/talks/779171/

Pulling back on employee power, hard

It's a fine balance between promoting your valuable work or just generating spam for a community.

💯 I definitely still struggle with this

I put down my thoughts about .pom files used by Maven artifacts. I feel like we've reached their End Of Life. What do you think? www.liutikas.net/2025/06/12/P... #gradle #maven

Looks like a fun compose challenge

A post about appreciation for the craft of a proper thorough fix for a problem. endler.dev/2025/paolo/

Flags as far as the eyes can see by @mbonnin.net #kotlinconf2025

I am looking forward to KotlinConf 2025. I hope to see you there. Do drop by for the talk by @alanv and I on "APIs: How Hard Can They Be?" #kotlinconf

There is something really satisfying when you are able to continue using a gadget for 10 years and there is not really a good reason to replace it. Garmin Edge 1000 has been there for me through rain and shine. The only other gadget that has been in use for as long is my Canon 6D DSLR.

Keep builds maintainable, updatable, and efficient with these Gradle best practices 🌟 → https://goo.gle/430vueV Gradle’s flexibility is both a strength and a challenge. There are many ways to configure a build, but not all paths lead to long-term stability and

6 years ago today Jetpack Compose was announced at Google I/O! What a transformative technology it's been....firstly for Android and then extending to more platforms (and of course we had Compose Multiplatform for iOS stable release yesterday!)

Excited to see more folks adopting this!

If you are debugging Gradle tasks and you need a bit of help, check out my post about some techniques for it www.liutikas.net/2025/05/01/E... #gradle

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it! blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-... #gradle

I found myself doing a lot of nodding when reading this post pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/s... It feels so true that as a tech worker it has become harder and harder to prevent enshittification.

I couldn't resist implementing this design I saw on Twitter using shared element API in Jetpack Compose.

There is a new version of gradle-lint checks! developer.android.com/jetpack/andr... Give it a spin and share any feedback you might have! #gradle