I'd like to share a talk where I shared how I'm starting to see the emotion of fear differently. Instead of running the other way when we feel fear, we could consider instead that it might be pointing us towards weaknesses where we can grow. youtu.be/dthDY7gkqYo

Shout out to the team maintaining Media3/ExoPlayer. I was about to create a custom preloading logic, and then I found out they added a built-in PreloadManager that does a lot of heavy lifting. And the cherry 🍒 on top is its good documentation 👏 developer.android.com/media/media3... #AndroidDev

In this talk, I cover how to create a production grade Compose PDF reader with no 3rd party dependencies, that achieves simultaneous page zooming. We also cover many Compose basics, as well as advanced topics like performance, re-composition, and accurate zooming. youtu.be/joKLvMwzJx8 #AndroidDev

We just released Jetpack Compose 1.10 with new features and a number of performance improvements. What's your favourite thing in this release? I 💚 the improvements to shared elements. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/what...

Published a new article, 'RemoteCompose: Another Paradigm for Server-Driven UI in Jetpack Compose'. You’ll explore RemoteCompose, understand its core architecture, and discover the benefits it brings to dynamic screen design with Jetpack Compose. skydoves.medium.com/remotecompos...

I saw a useful post online on how to make the Logcat window open up besides the emulator instead of underneath which requires reducing the emulator's size. Source: Qamar A. Safadi www.linkedin.com/posts/qamar-... #AndroidDev

Is this Dynamic Island look alike Pixel specific or available in stock Android as well? I don't see anything about it in the new Progress Centric Notifications introduced in Android 16. #AndroidDev

Man it's so easy to get sidetracked by implementing things "properly" instead of focusing on what actually moves the needle. I have to figuratively slap myself out of it sometimes 😅 Not arguing for doing things sloppily though. It's a balancing act depending on the circumstances. #AndroidDev

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

Cursor 2.0 was just released and it brought a lot of changes. Here are some highlights: - Multi-agents execution - Composer - its own coding model - Embedded browser - Sandboxing - similar to Claude Code - Team commands There are many more changes. You can read more here cursor.com/changelog/2-0

I was just reading the Material 3 design system docs, and I saw this snippet where they're explaining motion and citing iOS directly as an example. Pretty cool that they're openly acknowledging a competitor. #AndroidDev

Had a great time yesterday presenting at the GDG meetup in Copenhagen. I talked about my experience building my first open source library. Someone came up to me at the end, and told me it felt more like standup comedy. The best compliment I could wish for 😁 github.com/elyesmansour... #AndroidDev

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