Which is a good reminder that we do not necessarily need a new device each year. And that there always will be refurbished ones which I'm any case will remain cheaper

Always a pleasure to return to Berlin. This week it's a business trip, but next week it'll be I/O Connect ❤️🔥

Hi! I mailed out jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #318! @eevis.codes on acessible links! RemoteCompose! Cross-platform barcode scanning! Blueprints in previews! And... we seem to be short a BOM?!? jetc.dev/issues/318 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

Just in case you were wondering why I was a little quiet the last two weeks. That's because Moni and I had an incredible vacation in York. Absolutely fabulous place

Fancy local content over cloud streaming but have no idea how to easily sync from macOS to your Android device? MarvinSync just requires ADB and an USB connection or wireless debugging being set up codeberg.org/tkuenneth/ma...

Happy weekend. Did I ever mention my vibe-coded macOS app MarvinSync here? Anyway, let me remind you: dev.to/tkuenneth/fr... Doing some nice updates... ❤️

I love the fast paced app development using AI. Seriously. But being an old-school guy I take joy from thoroughly reviewing the code. And it still is a mess often, regardless of the model. Anyone claiming that we can leave reviews to AI, too, is either ... [censored]

Be nice, my take on modern launchers for #Android, received a couple of nice updates. Get it on Google Play, F-Droid, or directly from codeberg.org/tkuenneth/be...

Finally we got the first trailer ❤️❤️❤️ youtu.be/mm88-0uuvdw?...

I released the inaugural 0.1.0 of Knosh yesterday. Knosh is a Kotlin NO-SHell coding agent harness (hence, "Knosh"), designed for "one-shot" requests. It supports supplying a full prompt or having Knosh and your chosen model perform more structured tasks, like updating KDocs in specified files.

Thank you very much @androidweekly.bsky.social for sharing my article "Adaptable Apps on ChromeOS: A Post-Mortem" in issue 728 of Android Weekly

Latest Android Weekly Issue 728 is out! androidweekly.net/issues/issue... #AndroidDev #Kotlin

Be nice has a transparent app window so that the system wallpaper can shine through. Unless on #ChromeOS, that is, because there Android app window background is quite a mess. Therefore, Be nice 2.1.2 can now show custom backgrounds

Google pushes us to build adaptive apps. I’d like to remind them to build an OS that actually recognizes the effort 💡. I spent a week trying to clear the ChromeOS "designed for mobile" warning. The platform failed us 🤦‍♂️ dev.to/tkuenneth/ad...

Koin Compiler 1.0 is here. 🎉 Live from @KotlinConf.com DI safety moves from runtime to compile time: broken dependencies caught at build, full-graph checks across multi-module projects. Kotlin 2.3.20 · Koin 4.2.1 #Koin #Kotlin → github.com/InsertKoinIO/koin-compiler-plugin/releases/tag/1.0.0

Happy weekend. Met with my brother and enjoyed a wonderful sunny morning

Thank you very much ❤️ @dev.to for awarding me the "top Android author of the week" badge for my article "Building a custom launcher for ChromeOS". This is greatly appreciated dev.to/tkuenneth/bu...

Android Halo looks incredibly sexy, but I don't get making so much noise about a feature that 99.9% of apps can't even use until Google actually releases the APIs for third-party support. Yes I get it, later this year 😂

10,000 ⭐ on GitHub. 🎉 Koin is one of the biggest Kotlin frameworks powering Nike, McDonald's, Santander, Claude, Waze, Volkswagen, Just Eat, Decathlon, Canal+, and more. 250M downloads/year. Almost 9 years in. Thanks to everyone on the journey. github.com/InsertKoinIO/koin

Reminds me to re-share the article I did not too long ago. Looking forward to doing a follow-up based on the latest news dev.to/tkuenneth/ag...

My take on what we saw yesterday? Too much, impossible to grasp, too many coming soons. I so much wish we could stop this flood of unfinished stuff praises and instead get the news once it's there. Yea, the glasses are cool, though.

Android is now Compose First, we recommend you build all Android UI with Compose and `android.widget` is now in maintenance mode. #GoogleIO #AndroidDev android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/andr...

So sad I won't be able to join KotlinConf this year, particularly it happening basically at my door step. I started a new role in February, so I couldn't squeeze it in 😭 Send me hugs

Thank you very much @androidweekly.bsky.social for sharing my article about building a custom launcher for #ChromeOS in issue 727 of Android Weekly

I continued working on the dock. You can now also add folders. And unlike Google's launcher, Be nice allows you to have a custom folder emoji

Happy weekend. Be nice continues to receive awesome features. This will land soon: adding an app pair to the dock ❤️ #Android #Launcher #JetpackCompose

🎈 TestBalloon reaches flight level 1.0.0 🎉 The Kotlin test framework built from the ground up for today's ecosystem is now stable, with a powerful and concise DSL-based API, robustness at scale and first-class support for all platforms. infix-de.github.io/testBalloon/... More at KotlinConf!

Ever thought about building a custom launcher for ChromeOS? I did 🤪. Here's a nice weekend piece I did over at @dev.to dev.to/tkuenneth/bu...

We have a public holiday today, here in Germany, so enjoying a very relaxed morning. #NowSpinning Fallen Angel by Uriah Heep. While I love and appreciate that bands want (have to) evolve, still get more excited about the earlier progressive pieces. That's not to say, though, this isn't great music ❤️

Why are people so obsessed with using AI for things like "ordering my regular at the coffee shop"? Heck, we are humans, don't we _want_ to communicate with others? Don't believe that story of _having to become as efficient as possible_ - have fun

Two new features for Be nice. Arrange favorites by simply dragging and dropping them (including niiiice haptic feedback), and a slick open source licenses view. Kudos to @mikepenz.dev and @calvin.sh #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose codeberg.org/tkuenneth/be...

My friends know that I've always been a Deep Purple die-hard 😅 so I'm pretty excited that with their new album they may return to true Hard Rock 🎸 youtu.be/SoSr0sStFaE?...

We sat down with Sameer Samat, President of the Android Ecosystem, after The Android Show: I/O Edition.We asked him the questions the show didn't answer: Chromebook's future? Apple cooperation? Who owns it when an AI agent messes up? Watch/listen: buff.ly/iBcCLB4 #android

It may only be me, but "coming later this year" feels like a constant in the Android Show. That's not necessarily bad but, on the other hand, why not just waiting until things are ready? Still, quite some pretty exciting things upcoming

OK, I uploaded jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #314! Compose BOMs! Stable TV Compose! Form validation! ViewModels! Stylus support! Scrolling! jetc.dev/issues/314 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

I certainly won't spam you with everything I did during my absence 😂 but this one 👇 I ❤️ very much: dev.to/tkuenneth/re... Jetpack’s evolution from an Android-only rescue kit to a cross-platform powerhouse #Kotlin #KMP #CMP

🪦android.hardware.fingerprint And no, this isn't terrible news, was just browsing the API difference report and looking for strange changes that make for good social media posts 😂 For context, the FingerprintManager API was officially deprecated in API Level 28 👋 #Android17 #AndroidDev

🫧 Android 17 "Bubble Up" Explained Beyond the UI, I've analyzed the technical orchestration of Android 17’s new windowing engine—from TaskView reparenting to the "Secondary Display" pitfall. Get ahead of API 37: 🔗 dev.to/tkuenneth/bu... #AndroidDev #Android17 #GDE

Today updated TKBirthdayReminder to target #Android 17. The floating apps feature (Bubbles) is pretty nice. Since my apps are good citizens across form factors anyway, no changes needed. Curious to see if Play Store reviews complain about READ_CONTACTS. Well, it's a birthday reminder, after all 🤪

Among the most iconic records ever published, Hotel California #NowSpinning #Vinyl

Happy Sunday ☀️ What are you planning today? I guess I'll have fun updating TKBirthdayReminder to Android 17. Given the changes to how (which) contacts data is returned, not sure what will happen 🤪

Version 2.3.3 of TKWeek is available at github.com/tkuenneth/TK... and shortly on @f-droid.org.web.brid.gy - support #OpenSource and #KeepAndroidOpen. FWIW, I pulled TKWeek from the Play Store earlier because of how they handle sensitive permissions

Today I asked Cursor to add a tabletop mode to one of my apps, TKWeek. The result works nicely - but if poor tin can had checked earlier that I have been using Material 3 Adaptive, it could have saved itself - and me - from a lot of unnecessary code 😅

Hey @developers.google.com @androiddevs.bsky.social Did you know that my #OpenSource #Android launcher Be nice allows the creation of app pairs beyond foldables? Honestly, I don't know a cooler way to use split-screen on any Android device supporting split-screen play.google.com/store/apps/d...

During my absense here, I moved some of my #OpenSource projects to Codeberg. ... Code...what?!? Glad you've been asking. I did two articles about this on @dev.to dev.to/tkuenneth/se...

Another article I did recently: Agentic interaction using AppFunctions dev.to/tkuenneth/ag... We recently got alpha09, looking forward to see what changed, and likely doing a follow-up during the weekend 😍

About a month ago, I wrote an article about my learning from vibe-coding a native macOS app. Hope you like it 🤩 dev.to/tkuenneth/fr...

Good morning 👋

Curious to see a slick, fast, modern, lean #OpenSource #Android launcher written entirely in #Kotlin and #JetpackCompose that works great across form factors and device categories? play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Hello #Android #Kotlin #JetpackCompose enthusiasts 👋 I had been around earlier and then decided to leave. Turns out that may have been a bad idea 🙊 So, I decided to return.