I've been "abusing" Gemini's Deep Research feature lately. From researching kitchen ventilation systems in Denmark to latest French political news, it's been giving me great results and within just a few minutes. Deep Research is definitely one of the most useful applications of LLMs so far. #AI

Yay, Swift export now available by default in today's Kotlin 2.2.20-Beta2 release ! #KMP 🚀 kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsne...

I'm happy that my Jetpack Compose library was featured in the latest edition of the jetc.dev newsletter 🎉 github.com/elyesmansour... #AndroidDev

I've released my first open source library, a FloatingTabBar composable that mimics the new iOS Liquid Glass behavior. github.com/elyesmansour... This is my first ever open source contribution and it's been a very valuable experience. I hope you like it and find it useful! #AndroidDev

Is there any best practice for when to remember Modifiers and when not? #AndroidDev

I just had this funny chain of problems and solutions problem A > solution A -> creates: - problem B > solution B -> problem X > solution X - problem C > solution C -> problem Y > solution Y I hope this is the end of the chain 😅 And I don't see any way around solution A. #AndroidDev

Alright, today I progressed a bit in my maven central publishing adventure. I rewrote all the Git history to use the Github no-reply email address. And I finally managed to actually upload an artifact, but now I have validations issues to resolve. At least I got the gradle task to work 😅

Publishing to MavenCentral has a learning curve to say the least 😅 I was about to buy a domain, then learnt that my information would be exposed on whois. Not too long after I learnt that Github Pages exist! Now I'm messing with gradle configurations. Wish me luck 😄 #AndroidDev

Debugging sessions are much more enjoyable when they're performed like steady and calm science experiments rather than expecting fast results immediately then cursing in frustration because my programmer ego is hurt. #AndroidDev #Programming

Coding with AI teaches the discipline of going slower when we can go faster. We still own a 100% of the code. We can't review a 1000 lines of code in one go, but we can review them in small chunks. If we'd like to maintain quality, then we need to slow down the process to a human level. #ai

This is my current iteration on recreating the iOS 26 navigation bar on Android. I hope to release this soon as my first open source project 🤞 #AndroidDev

The shared element transition API in Compose is quite powerful. It allowed me to achieve exactly the custom behavior I need. And thanks to the documentation page below, I was able to understand how to resolve all the visual artifacts I was seeing. developer.android.com/develop/ui/c... #AndroidDev

Claude Code on Android Studio works like a charm. I'm just missing the "Review Changes" button in Cursor to see all the changes made since the last prompt. #AndroidDev #Claude

I just made this prototype for a floating navigation bar similar to iOS 26. Designing the API for this component was a nice exercise. #AndroidDev

🚀 The HTTP Client plugin is now in Android Studio! Generate and run HTTP requests directly from your code, with support for Retrofit, OkHttp and Ktor. Enjoy seamless editor integration, code completion, and more. 🔗 Read our blog for full details! blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/06...

I learnt a bit of Swift today. Two things I found particularly nice are the: - `try? ...` expression which is the same as `getOrNull()` in Kotlin but actually built in the language. - Class de-initializers that can execute some cleanup code when an object is deallocated. #Swift #AndroidDev

Thanks @jetbrains.com for a greatly organized #KotlinConf, and thanks to all the speakers who shared their knowledge with us. The biggest thing I'm excited about is Koog, the Kotlin framework for building Agents. I'm already getting my hands dirty with it. #Kotlin

A few thoughts I had today on how to select the right software engineers during the age of AI. medium.com/@elyesmansou... #AndroidDev #Hiring #Software_Development

TIL the Surface composable consumes touch events because internally it's using an empty `.pointerInput(Unit) {}` modifier. #AndroidDev

We stayed away from the Gemini assistant in Android Studio because it lacked a privacy policy for businesses. Now it's finally here 🎉 android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/04/gemi... #AndroidDev

It was a thrill giving a talk at the GDG Meetup in Copenhagen. The topic was about how to create an advanced PDF reader in Android with Jetpack Compose. I've gained a lot of appreciation for PDF readers after making one myself. The amount of complexity hidden inside it is surprising! #AndroidDev

I was trying to solve the issue of having to recompose the whole tree when the value in `staticCompositionLocalOf` changes, by propagating the `State` object itself. Then I found we can simply use `compositionLocalOf` instead to only recompose the scopes that are using the value 👌 #AndroidDev

Thank you Compose team for making this `VelocityTracker` class that calculates velocity based on touch events 🙏 #AndroidDev

I tried Cursor for the first time today and it blew my mind. I managed to build a Slack bot and deploy it to a Cloudflare worker, which is something I've never done before. It feels so good to jump on a new tech and build something simple without having to go through a steep learning curve.

Tail recursion in Kotlin 🌀 A topic not many people is super familiar with. Wrote about it. open.substack.com/pub/effectiv...

I created non-recomposing size modifiers to improve the regular ones that cause too many recompositions due to animations. The code is shared in the gist below. Feel free to copy it :) gist.github.com/elyesmansour... #AndroidDev

Is there a resource where we can track a list of devices supporting the 16kb page size? #AndroidDev

Hey #AndroidDev, are there good resources about conducting a technical interview as the interviewer?

I just went from using animateFloatAsState to Transition to finally Animatable 😅 #AndroidDev

🚀 Should you use Kotlin Sequences for Performance? I have always thought that using asSequence() was the way to optimize chained operations in Kotlin. But after benchmarking, the results shocked me: Sequences are often slower! 😱 #Kotlin #AndroidDev chrisbanes.me/posts/use-se...

What's your take on rebasing and force pushing to solve merge conflicts for a PR with standing comments? Is there a case where it makes sense? #AndroidDev

How do you guys read non-fiction books? Do you stop and take notes and ponder about some points? Or do you just read through and trust some knowledge will stick along the way? #reading

OpenAI o3 Deep Research has just been released, and it seems to be pretty damn good www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H6v.... Paraphrasing from the video, it's great at finding needles in a haystack but it also finds you screws along with that. So basically we still have to double check the output. #ai

I've been sleeping on Severance. Just binged the first season!

Poll shows 85% of Greenlanders oppose joining US. ground.news/article/poll...

TIL that Configuration#screenHeightDp actually returns the app's window height in a multi-window setup not the full display screen height 👌 Quite helpful, albeit a confusing name. developer.android.com/reference/an... #AndroidDev

The first sneak peek into the new headset from Samsung running on the new Android XR OS 🤩 youtu.be/az5QL_NLBvg?...

I just noticed that the Play Store has specific reviews for tablets. #AndroidDev

While documenting wrong implementations of my upcoming article's central feature, I stumbled upon the right one! It's much simpler than my initial solution, but that also means I have to scrap half of the article 😅 #AndroidDev

✨ First video out now! Learn how to create delightful mesh gradients in #JetpackCompose Works on Android and #KotlinMultiplatform If you like the video, you can check out the code that made it, fully open source on GitHub (aka tell me how bad my code is, 😅). youtu.be/C7iq8m2dQOo

I've seen the PdfRenderer.Page size being directly used as the pixel size when converting it to Bitmap in different guides. However if we check the documentation for the size attributes, we'll find that the return value is in points. Here's how to convert its size to pixels. #AndroidDev

Are you guys loving the integrated PR review feature in Android Studio the same as I am? 💯 I just wish it did multiline comments better. #AndroidDev

Random thought I had the other day when picking my new green winter jacket. Does maturity happen when you change from liking blue to liking green? 🤔

Latest Android Weekly Issue 658 is out! androidweekly.net/issues/issue... #AndroidDev #Kotlin

I noticed that DisplayMetrics has both xdpi and ydpi values, but the SDK's TypedValue.applyDimension method only uses the xdpi value for converting pt, inch, and mm to pixels. Any idea why? Or whether there is enough difference between the two values in modern devices for it to matter? #AndroidDev

I've been thinking about this recently. How do we ensure that team debates and differing opinions don't turn toxic but instead help the team bond and thrive? Any tips from your experience? #AndroidDev

I'm feeling proud of my first ever home desk 😊

I came across these Android Quick Guides in the official documentation developer.android.com/quick-guides. They're supposed to be very practical and only take a handful of minutes to be used. Found some interesting ones. I'll write them down in the thread 👇 #AndroidDev

Nice new addition in AndroidX Activity 1.10.0 🥳 developer.android.com/jetpack/andr... #AndroidDev