First stream of 2026! Come hang out for some chill Wednesday night coding: twitch.tv/adammc

If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from? New blog post on the 'disappearing middle': chrisbanes.me/posts/disapp...

Successfully built a widget pulling real data, and a mock preview for the widget picker itself!

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I was watching Jurassic World on my flight, when I looked over and saw the one year old child next to me flipping through a book about dinosaurs. I never actually aged, did I?

Live now! Attempting to revive an app I haven't touched in about two years. What could go wrong? twitch.tv/adammc

I'll be back to live streaming tonight! What if we revived the TOA app from like two years ago? 👀

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...

Today I learned you can press F on the chess.com desktop site to rage smash the board when you're mad.

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

Live on Twitch! Come hang out for some chill Wednesday evening coding: twitch.tv/adammc

I wanted to give an update on the Balatro 1.1 release date: localthunk.com/blog/im-slow TL;DR is that it will not be coming out in 2025, it is still coming out for sure, and I'm sorry. The new timeline is "it's done when it's done" Please read the blog post for more details

Updates to the space station detail screen to view active crew members 👀

Live now! Come hang out with me for some chill Wednesday coding, will be live a bit longer than usual today: twitch.tv/adammc

Hi! I published jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #280! Compose Multiplatform alpha! weight()! Conditional layouts! @adammc.bsky.social on shared element keys! And... composables for audio?!? jetc.dev/issues/280 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

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I wrote something small to celebrate an entire decade since my first blog post. So much of my life has changed since then, and I still have so many ideas for more I can do, but it's nice to just sit and reflect on ten years. androidessence.com/reflecting-o...

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Realized my ten year anniversary of my blog is just a couple weeks away... 🤯

I won a $10 steam gift card. Do I get Balatro for PC so I can play multiplayer mods, or are there other low budget, high quality games I should look into? Thinking in the $10-20 range.

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Navigation3 1.0.0-alpha07 is out today with fixes around saving state (ensuring that SavedStateHandle works correctly), the ability to customize the predictivePopTransitionSpec based on what edge the gesture started from, plus an infinite recomposition fix. developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

Live now! Doing some leaderboard runs on The Farmer Was Replaced: twitch.tv/adammc

Don't have the Androids audiobook yet? Or need a second copy to listen to it in stereo? My publisher is running a 50% off sale through September 5, get yours for $10: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

AI was supposed to make us more efficient. Instead, it’s fragmenting our workflows, bloating our calendars, and burning out high performers. I wrote about the false promise of AI productivity and why we’re actually working harder than ever: afterburnout.co/p/ai-promise...

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My latest crochet project, fingerless gloves. Super happy with the wave-like cable pattern.

Live now! Replacing farmers again: twitch.tv/adammc

Stop calling AI a "junior engineer" blog.mmckenna.me/stop-calling...

New pet peeve is when I ask someone a nuanced question and they respond "Here's what GPT said" I already asked GPT, if it had a good answer I wouldn't have asked you! Gonna need to develop social protocols around this

Live now! Trying out The Farmer Was Replaced: twitch.tv/adammc

Would y'all hang out if I did a coding game instead of an Android stream tonight? 👀

100/10 recommend getting offline and getting into a manual task. Crafting, gardening, woodworking, anything that requires physical interaction. I picked up crochet and when I catch myself doom scrolling I go work on a project and it's a game changer.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Do you want me to do my lesson or not, Duo??

Live now! Exploring navigation3 again, hopefully getting into persisting backstack: twitch.tv/adammc

My team is hiring! We are remote friendly within the US. Lots of info below, but feel free to DM me with any questions about it: careers.airbnb.com/positions/69...

My newest toy arrived!

First impressions: Nav 3 is insane, and the scenes layout is beautiful. I'll have the recording up on YouTube soon

Live now! Exploring Compose Navigation 3, come hang out: #AndroidDev twitch.tv/adammc

I'll be back to stream tomorrow night! And gone next week, but briefly back to take a look at Navigation 3 live 👀

Been thinking about how much I hate AI tooling lately, and a random connection I made was that the boomers were right to criticize self checkout lanes. That was the start of "how can replace human interaction under the guise of making things easier" and we've slowly just been ramping that up.

Interfaces are your best friend. Put wrappers around third party code, especially for data requests. It will be an immense help for testing and for changing data sources over time.

We've done it. We've completed Balatro.

I/O was a blast, & now our Android XR technical talks are live 🎉 Dereck & I presented on 3D content & AR youtu.be/KbTJNK1ALYc Jan & Cecilia presented on Compose & Al on Android XR goo.gle/43ciNOc Grateful to see all the team's hard work coming together, and I'm excited to see what folks build

Delete a letter, ruin a movie: Due

Instead of a presentation, this year I'll be leading one of the roundtable discussions at Droidcon NYC! This is an open and collaborative conversation that anyone can participate in, discussing the current state of Jetpack Compose migrations in 2025, and the work still to be done. Come hang out!

Finished the Shining Revelry set yesterday! 💪

Today, we've released a brand new Jetpack library - Navigation3! A pure Compose, state based navigation library: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...