It is absolutely bonkers how Flock cameras have such poor security practices. They are all over the US. There is one 100 ft from my house. Thousands of them in the Bay Area (map here deflock.me/map) This is a dream for a hostile actor. youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?... #flock #security

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

To improve AndroidX release binary transparency we have made all of our release branches visible to the world. E.g. collections: ci.android.com/builds/branc... What that means is now you can go from a released version of a library to an exact buildId and the source tree state for that release.

"my configuration time went down from ~1s per project to ~350ms per project." @[email protected] was able to drastically speed up his project's configuration time. mbonnin.net/2025-11-08_g... A goalpost to reach: 100ms per project. Where are you with your projects? #gradle

15 years ago, this happened: github.com/JetBrains/ko... #kotlin

Sometimes you've got to celebrate the small wins. Android Studio project wizard will add distributionSha256Sum entries to gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties to make reduce your chances of getting a malicious Gradle distribution! issuetracker.google.com/issues/26963... #gradle #security

The administration has pulled the plug on IRS Direct File, a tool that helped eligible taxpayers file for free. This decision comes despite Direct File’s immense popularity with its users.

yup it's fully KMP/jpcompose and works great on Android and iOS!! But we're always interested in connecting with more KMP people to get help and tips.

A reason to upgrade to Gradle 9.2 if you are suffering from this issue.

If you are using Gradle and your per project configuration time (total configuration time / number of subprojects) is more than 100ms there is likely something suboptimal in your build set up. #gradle

Some guy got in an argument with me about the impact of AI malware. He cited a MIT paper claiming "80% of ransomware attacks are AI powered". I glanced over it and burst out laughing, but couldn't be bothered to debunk it. My friend on the other hand, could. He roasted it so hard that MIT deleted it

You might have seen CVE-2025-36852 that affects the use of Gradle remote build cache. I wrote a short post of when to use and when not to use remote cache www.liutikas.net/2025/10/28/C... #gradle

🚨 #dcldn25 kicks off Thursday! Don’t miss The Android Show live from London—Gemini in @AndroidStudio, fresh dev news & live #AskAndroid. Also catch the Day 2 Keynote with #Android leaders Matthew McCullough, Tor Norbye, Clara Bayarri & Jingyu Shi. 🎟️ Last chance for tickets → london.droidcon.com

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

It is wild to see that AndroidX repository has 2.6M lines of Kotlin code and 1.1M of Java. Just 4 years ago it was 1:1 and 4 more years before that was ~0 of Kotlin. It is awesome to see similar growth of Kotlin out there in the Android ecosystem. #kotlin #android

Come see @hoford.bsky.social and I in London next week -- we have some cool stuff to show off :-) #RemoteCompose: an #AndroidX framework to project rich, animated #UI from apps or servers onto remote surfaces. #dcldn25

I really enjoyed this keynote as it applies even outside of software

Cooking beautiful and highly accurate graphs for my @droidcon.bsky.social London presentation!

my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*

Despite the confusing name, this runs entirely offline and you don't need develocity license and a server instance to use it. Give it a spin if you want to get a sense where your build is slow.

The recording for my talk from DPE Summit 2025 titled "Gradle: Your Build, Your Rules" is out! Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWx_... Slides: speakerdeck.com/aurimas/grad... #gradle

Awesome post from @f1xedgear.bsky.social and @autonomousapps.bsky.social about improving Gradle sync times in the IDE engineering.block.xyz/blog/shrinki... #gradle

A week ago I learned about largely undocumented GradlePluginApiVersion API. I wrote a post about it! www.liutikas.net/2025/10/15/G... #gradle

Come hear me talk about keeping your large Gradle builds in order at @droidcon.bsky.social London!

It boggled my mind to learn that Meta tracks per character (not line) attribution of AI vs human using their versioning system and tools. For them it is about % of useful (not space/new line/ect) characters written by AI. Not sure many companies can track things like that. dpe.org/sessions/pav...

Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)? Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...

A quick write up of an investigation for a test failure with NoSuchFieldError www.liutikas.net/2025/10/06/N...

Found this website that lets you visualize energy sources and flows between various countries. Awesome to see Lithuania is doing really well with renewables transition! app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fif...

A great talk by @p-y.wtf @ DroidCon on "Embracing the Chaos: Investigating Production Madness". I couldn't agree more that a lot of growth as a software engineer is all about understanding the root cause. So much of my Grade, JVM and other knowledge came from that. youtube.com/watch?v=kOH1...

I've been really enjoying "Java's 1-billion-row challenge" series by Marco Behler (@jetbrains.com) and @cmuratori.bsky.social It is great for JVM devs, but it also widely applies to Android code as well. It reminds me of @romainguy.dev 's performance blog posts www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

From the #Gradle community 👉 👉 👉 Martin Bonnin shares his thoughts on the separation of concerns for your Gradle plugins! https://mbonnin.net/2025-08-24_isolation_101/

If you are using Gradle configuration cache you know that one of the most frustrating parts of the experience is unexpected CC misses. I wrote a post on how to minimize that! www.liutikas.net/2025/09/30/I... #gradle

📢 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