Gemini 3 Flash feels way too human for its own good. The following attempt was labelled "Final Verification and Documentation-FINAL-RETRY-4". I swear you can't make this shit up

@androidstudio.bsky.social Panda Panda Panda Panda Panda Panda Panda Panda canary is out! Happy holidays everyone! 🐼🎄

Navigation 3 isn’t just a version bump — it’s a mindset shift. Alex Vanyo and Don Turner walk us through the how & why. VOD → youtu.be/I9Ws2Lxv0dw

Android Studio Panda in Canary now! 🐼

Screenshot buddies :)

PSA — go and click that refresh button to get Gemini 3 Flash ;)

One of the most fascinating reads about the history of a software product I've ever read. Grab a copy if you haven't read it yet. You also get Chet Jokes as a bonus! And if you have read it, pick up "Show-stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft"

Exploring more Dial interactions with overshoot animation included #JetpackCompose

Tomorrow we're chatting with Don Turner and Alex Vanyo about the hottest new AndroidX library of 2025 — Navigation 3, which recently became stable. Join us for the last stream of the year: usual place, usual time!

The "values" section of Jake's hire me page is the best thing I've read in years. Clear, honest, principled, and ethical. Tech would be a much better place with more of this and more people like Jake. jakewharton.com/hire/ mastodon.jakewharton.com/@jw

Today’s the last day to submit a talk for @kotlinconf.com. Go submit one! Teaching something is a great way to deepen your understanding of it.

New blog post on how to render beautiful soft shadows projected by the user's finger with Jetpack Compose. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/f...

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

KotlinConf 2026 tickets are 20% off for Black Friday! This is your best chance to grab them at a discount.

At droidcon London @ajeshr.bsky.social and I presented on "low effort, high impact app performance". We explored how you can improve app performance and then measure these improvements. youtu.be/t7djyOWymJQ?...

Pebble going fully open source is a big win for hardware preservation. ⌚️🔓 But for mobile devs, the real story is in the repo. The new app is a pure KMP + Compose Multiplatform rewrite. 230k lines (Legacy Java/ObjC) ➡️ 37k lines (Kotlin) Shipped in 6 months with just 2 devs 🔥

Tomorroooooowwww

if you aren't following @sinasamaki.com, you're missing out on some of the most exquisite and refined jetpack compose animations; I'm constantly surprised/amazed by some of the things they pull off !

Navigation3 is really a turning point for the whole Architecture Components team as we look to work closely with the Compose team and think more holistically about what it takes to build an Android app. So if you're an ~L4 engineer who wants to help, I'm hiring! www.google.com/about/career...

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉 Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...

✨ New article - Let's create the fake CRT effect from the latest Sweeper theme, in #JetpackCompose using graphicsLayer www.sinasamaki.com/creating-a-crt-screen-effect-in-jetpack-compose/

Congrats, NYC

Here's the slides for our #dcldn25 talk on #RemoteCompose speakerdeck.com/camaelon/dro... Thanks to everyone that attended, it was great to finally share this project :) Kudos to the droidcon organizers, this was a really smooth event, and it was neat to see old friends! @hoford.bsky.social

If using Gemini in Android Studio is not your cup of tea, you can now use whatever model you want via API key! Now available in latest canaries developer.android.com/studio/gemin...

The companion blog post for my @droidcon.bsky.social London talk on shaders is now live! blog.sebastiano.dev/shaders-are-...

Oh, Heathrow, one day you'll manage to deliver luggage within half an hour of landing. One day. I want to believe

The Android team is diving into what's new in Android development to help you build excellent apps across devices. Tune into The Android Show on October 30 to learn more → goo.gle/tas-oct25

I'll be answering your #AndroidXR developer questions this Friday, make sure to get them in! www.youtube.com/live/VcP8Zz4...

Quando inizi la giornata con quello che è sostanzialmente un audio di @francescocosta.bsky.social @nicolaghittoni.bsky.social rimettiti presto 🤗

The things one does for a slide deck

SPOILER ALERT! For my talk next week at @droidcon.bsky.social London. IYKYK

I turned a leak investigation into a post on the Block eng blog to share a method that works well! It's a bit long... I had to show how to encode code knowledge to automate leak investigations, and dig even deeper with YourKit Java Profiler. engineering.block.xyz/blog/the-lea... #AndroidDev

It's now available at plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/28758...

I did a thing that I suppose could be useful to others in the lead up to @droidcon.bsky.social London :) tl;dr adds an extra copy action that removes the background and sets a different font size, ready to paste into Keynote. See also www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/se... github.com/rock3r/copy-...

Super excited to be speaking at Droidcon London 2025 very soon!

imagine writing this last sentence and not thinking "lol this is weird maybe we shouldnt"

Viva the cartoonist theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Kicking off DevFest Milano 2025 with the speakers' dinner. This year we organized something pretty special: a pizza-making cooking class! Thanks to all the speakers who attended and will definitely help us making tomorrow event a special one!

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...

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 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.

Looking for a DI solution that doesn’t fight KMP? 🚨 Meet Metro — from the mind of Zac Sweers We’ll talk about how it works, what problems it solves, and how to use it. 📆 Oct 8 — LIVE on Twitch

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Designers when an android engineer ask to just use the system back arrow: “our custom back arrow is an expression of our brand, we cannot yield to looking like a Google app” Designers when Liquid Glass looks like shit everywhere in their app: “LEROY JENKINSSSSSSS”

OVpay: "We updated the app, you need to change the password" Me: 🤨 have y'all been hacked OVpay: "Oh yeah, possibly unrelated but this app is made in .Net MAUI" Me: lol can't tell if incompetence or what

When the GitHub CI log for the current step you've just added is so large it crashes the tab

I don't know who I am nerd sniping with this, but: would it technically be possible to have motion blur in Compose UI? ...maybe with a custom renderer? Damn. Would be real nice with @bnorm.dev's github.com/bnorm/storyb...

Just a few more weeks for our DevFest Milano 😎 It's gonna be the 11th of October and we have some amazing speakers coming! The final agenda is now live at

I am human (but also, thanks dev console)