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

Live now! Come hang out for your weekly Wednesday vibes: twitch.tv/adammc

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...

Live now! More chill #AndroidDev coding: twitch.tv/adammc

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.

Live now! Doing some chill random Wednesday night coding, come hang out for lofi and relaxing: twitch.tv/adammc

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...

Live now! Come hang out and replace some farmers: twitch.tv/adammc

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...

It used to be funny to joke about mentions of AI during the I/O keynote because they would be like "oh this thing also has AI" but so far we've watched an entire hour of strictly AI tools. I hate it here.

Already an AI hater and the keynote hasn't started. Imagine flying to California and the opening is a computer generated video that could have been an email lmao

🎉 The new Kotlin Multiplatform for IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio! ✨ Integrated New Project wizard 🔍 Preflight checks 🔧 Multiplatform run configurations 🧭 Cross-language support 🎨 Compose Multiplatform support 🔥 Compose Hot Reload Learn more blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

New blog post up on UI layer architecture for persistent UI elements like navigation bars, navigation rails, and floating action buttons! www.tunjid.com/articles/ui-...

I'm very excited to show off some crazy things with this talk at @droidcon.bsky.social NYC! #dcnyc25

Live now! Going to spend some time revisiting and cleaning up a sports app side project. Come hang out: twitch.tv/adammc

Stream ideas for tonight? Haven't done much side project coding in a while. Maybe view some Compose 1.8.0 stuff?

Saw sharks for the first time this week!

Going on my first cruise this week! Also first time without internet access in years. I am so ready to disconnect.

🪿 It’s really Goose vs. Goose! 🪿 Matt and Joe go head-to-head in The Great Goose-Off! 🥊 They’ll have the same task, the same time limit, but different prompts, different MCP servers, and different strategies. 📆 April 8, 2025 at 10 am PT/ 1pm ET 📺 linktr.ee/blockopensou... Join us for episode 2!