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I've been experimenting a lot with the new navigation events library and navigation 3, and wrote about 3 unique animations and transitions you can create with them: www.tunjid.com/articles/3-u...

The best outcome from all this "developer verification", "age verification", and similar surveillance tools is that maybe, we'll just stop using the internet for everything non-essential and go back to living real lives. Who am I kidding, we're spoiled rotten.

Google product development in 2025

There's no good reason why people distributing apps outside the Play Store should need to provide their personal data to Google. This is just taking Android into the horrible world of dev accounts and notarization that Apple enforces.

Wrote a lot of thoughts on junior developers, AI, and what I strongly feel is going to become the defining challenge of our industry's next generation. www.zacsweers.dev/forklifts-re...

Another issue, another set of uncomfortable questions. Time time, they are about the proposed Android developer verification program: commonsware.com/blog/2025/08... #AndroidDev

To be clear, this article headline is deeply misleading. The real headline: Google is banning sideloading on Android. It's anti-competition, deeply intrusive, and extremely dangerous to those in countries with totalitarian regimes (which Google typically bends a knee to).

Suddenly, Google needs to know the real identities of developers. Do you think malware creators will register their APKs with you before they exploit the OS? If not, then it's clear that you're after individuals who are creating apps that you don't like.

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...

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...

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

Lol had some fun with Goose at MCP hack night in Toronto. Everything's fun when the tokens are free 😅 @iandouglas736.com Thanks for hosting this! #TorontoTechWeek

Safety critical and driving errors on day 1: 1. The Supervised Robotaxi failed to turn left and panicked during Rob Mauer's ride, whipping the wheel back and forth. It then drove on the wrong side of the road, failed to correct itself and continued to drive down the wrong side of the road.

At MCP Hack Night!

Everyone's saying we're more productive with AI now. So we can finally have a 4 day work week then?

I was barely online during KotlinConf 2025, so here's my follow-up now. Thank you so much everyone who joined us, in person or online. It was an incredible experience connecting with the community! ❤️ Here are some highlights of news below, as you've probably missed some! 🧵

Union types + Rich Errors Still not clear to me how union types will work (typescript PSTD), but Im all in for rich errors

I wouldn't mind a future where I controlled my computer over voice to tell some LLM to code different things, wearing AR glasses to glance at what it was doing when needed, while walking in a park during the work day. The pieces are kinda all there, except maybe the AR glasses to peek at the screen.

Anybody tried out @getpieces.bsky.social ? I just tried it and while it's super cool. It gave me "keylogger with an AI" vibes just because it's always screen recording and has all the accessibility permissions. Plus, it didn't help that Local mode didn't do anything on my M1 Mac.

Don't use Gson on Android. Use Kotlin Serialization instead. It relies on code generation instead of reflection. This helps avoid optimization related crashes and faster app performance. github.com/google/gson?... github.com/Kotlin/kotli...

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🔥 Compose Multiplatform for iOS is Stable and Production-Ready! 🔥 Build mobile apps faster with shared UI code, full control over native experiences, and the confidence to ship at scale. Explore all the updates in Compose Multiplatform 1.8.0: 👇 blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

I'm currently looking for a new fully remote, contract role. I have 15 years of Android experience, and plenty more Kotlin, Java , C / C++, and even more obscure stuff

Google and new Google assistant APIs. Every couple of Android versions, there's some new way.

Using a todo app is good. I chuck tasks into the thing and trust I won’t drop ’em. Todoist is an excellent todo app. It’s easy to get started and has scaled really well for me.

Compose 1.8.0 dropped yesterday #AndroidDev - Finally auto-fill in Compose + autofill commit will be called automatically (we’ll see if that works for us though) - Text auto-size - `Modifier.onLayoutRectChanged`. Less overhead than `onGloballyPositioned` 🧵 1/2

🪿 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!

🪿 Which LLMs pass the vibe check? We evaluated Goose's performance with popular closed and open source models — from coding Flappy Bird to creating wiki pages. Here's what we found → block.github.io/goose/blog/2...

Let's build an Electon video conferencing app (Around.co alternative maybe?) with Gemini! #vibecoding www.twitch.tv/afzal____

So those Octopus tablets in the back of Ubers are sneakily taking pics of you to see if you’re watching the ads.

People literally paid with their data here 🙈 www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Been trying to find an alternative to around.co now that it's shutting down and it's insane how many alternatives that were launched within the last 5 years have shut down or been acquired!

🚀 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...

Bug fixes and beta releases headline today's #JetpackReleaseNotes with releases of Compose 1.7.8, Fragment 1.8.6, Navigation 2.8.7, Paging 3.3.6, and Wear Compose 1.4.1 plus Room KMP's first beta release! developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

TIL that Dynamic colors for home screen widgets on #Android change not only based on what the wallpaper is but also where the widget is placed? #AndroidDev

Folks, I see a lot of you recently feeling free to use some variation of the "R" word for mentally disabled, including appending the last four letters as suffix to describe people you don't like. I'm not down with that, so if you do it in my comments, I'm gonna hide that shit at least. Be better.

Cool, then it's not just me holding it wrong. Large context models, like Google's Gemini with a supposed 1-2M context window, are a non-functioning party trick. Aider guy knows what he's doing. In my own work, i found the limit to be 32k tokens, before shit falls apart.

I'm currently looking for a new fit remote, Android development contract role. I have over 15 years of Android development experience, and bring lots of positive energy to the team. Although I'm based in the UK, I'm set up to work for companies based anywhere. I have immediate availability.

New blog post! If you are a Kotlin or Java Android developer, this one should make you go 🤯. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/n... I'm not even sorry.

Wait, what? I was hoping they were adding at least a replaceWith instruction, but it looks like it is only getting deprecated. It would be nice to hear why this is getting deprecated and if it will be replaced with another API. FlexLayouts play a key role in Adaptive layouts!

Ever wanted to make a stacked list of avatars or a fading edge effect in #JetpackCompose? 🤔 Check out the latest #ComposeTips to learn all about how a few tricks with BlendModes can help you get the UI you are looking for 👀 youtu.be/rdS4A2YFBHA?...

I wrote a blog post that's really just an excuse to trick you into watching @worrydream.com's Inventing on Principle talk

Hey #AndroidDev 👋, check the new #ComposeTips video 👇 #JetpackCompose #Android youtu.be/rdS4A2YFBHA?...

You can find the #AndroidDev team on 🦋 in this list.

I love Kotlin but please don't abuse its features. I regularly see code like in the first function when you can instead write a simple if statement: it's shorter, easier to read, and doesn't allocate an object! Thankfully both functions compile to the same assembly when R8 is turned on.

Optimizing blur hash, step by step: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/o...