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Fabien Sanglard @fabinou.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I took part to Android Developer podcast, with @romainguy.dev and Tor Norbye. We talked about ADB, ADB Wifi, and Quake! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIw...

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From Android to QuakeCon: What 90s Game Engines Teach Us About Extreme Optimization

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 15/09/2026

I was in the United States on OPT until the Trump administration wrongfully denied my STEM Extension request. Charging my institution (*not* the employer) $100,000 per head is disturbing and basically ends all forms of legal immigration unless you're Polish, Hungarian, or white South African

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Nicolas Roard @camaelon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We had a fantastic time at #DroidKaigi (as usual!) -- thanks to all the work done by the organizers! It was great chatting with a lot of developers. I'm really impressed they published the video of the talk so quickly -- so here it is! @hoford.bsky.social #RemoteCompose

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Huyen Tue Dao @queencodemonkey.dev · 04/09/2026

#DroidKaigi has grown so much since we last attended in person but from 10 years ago to now, it remains a wonderfully organized, impactful event. From the content to the operations, everything is so high-level and it is easy to see and experience the care and dedication of the staff. 本当にありがとうございました！

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Nicolas Roard @camaelon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The clouds lifted up at the right time -- always an amazing sight

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 30/07/2026

ITS TODAY!!! 🎂 Jetpack Compose 1.0 is turning 5, and we’re throwing a livestream birthday bash to celebrate! Join us as we look back at how Compose completely changed the Android UI game and answer your questions live. 🗓 When: July 30 @ 13:00 UTC / 6 AM PT 📺 Where: goo.gle/4fxMBLj

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 27/07/2026

Fascinating optimization work done by the R8 and Compose teams to optimize coroutines: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/how-...

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How R8 made Kotlin Coroutines on Android 2x faster

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Nicolas Roard @camaelon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The video of the #RemoteCompose talk @hoford.bsky.social @schimke.ee and I gave at #AndroidMakers is now available! Check it out, it's a good overview, and I'm glad we're finally able to communicate more about it -- that's what I've been working on this last 3 years! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-u...

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Shipping "Smart UI" with RemoteCompose - Android Makers by droidCon 2026

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Rahul Ravikumar @rahulrav.com · 21/05/2026

My talk from Android Makers on the new Jetpack Multiplatform Tracing 2.0 library is now on YouTube! 🚀 🇩🇪 PS: I’m at KotlinConf this week! If you’re using the library (or curious about tracing / app performance), please say hi. I’d love to meet you and hear your feedback. youtu.be/d9Ya_YgDLOg

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Zero* Cost Observability: A Deep Dive into the Jetpack Multiplatform Tracing Library

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Nick Butcher @nickbutcher.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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...

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Android UI Development is Compose First

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 27/04/2026

Metro reaches 1.0! It's the proudest work of my career and I strongly feel this is how dependency injection in Kotlin should be. Thank you to everyone that's contributed and helped this project get to where it's at. Metro wouldn't be where it is without you. www.zacsweers.dev/metro-is-sta...

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🚇 Metro is Stable

Metro 1.0.0 is out now and stable. This means that its runtime APIs (runtime, MetroX artifacts, Gradle plugin, etc.) are now API-stable unless annotated with an experimental annotation. This is an ex...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/04/2026

EFF’s Associate Director of Technology Policy and Research, @cliffbraun.bsky.social, gave testimony at the CA Assembly to urge the rejection of AB2047, a bill that claims to keep Californians safe, but will surveil and harm people with no interest in creating firearms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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P-Y @p-y.wtf · 13/04/2026

Is there interesting technical content on leveraging LLMs to help with root causing production issues? Beyond just "we pasted all the logs in context & asked to solve" E.g. log compression, algorithmic investigation, exposing tools & methods, etc..

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Christophe B. @bladecoder.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It was nice to see @camaelon.bsky.social and John Hoford back on stage at Android Makers in Paris, this time teaming up with @schimke.ee to talk about the intriguing RemoteCompose #AndroidMakers

From left to right: Yuri Schimke, John Hoford and Nicolas Roard on the Android Makers main stage.

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Matt McKenna @mmckenna.me · 24/10/2024

Made an #AndroidDev Starter Pack! Please let me know if I missed anyone so I can connect with them as well 😁 go.bsky.app/Etd57t6

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The IntelliJ documentary is out now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kour... And it also covers the origin of Android Studio!

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IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | An origin story

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rob pike @robpike.io · 18/03/2026

That 16% has been revised upwards, as it included a cohort that included those with the older, much less effective vaccine. For those vaccinated with Shingrix, the reduction of dementia diagnoses downstream may be well over 50%. The data are still coming.

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KotlinConf @kotlinconf.com · 11/03/2026

Dan Kim's KotlinConf'25 session showed how far you can go with a fully Kotlin‑powered web app: rapid development, type‑safe database access, a Vaadin UI, and full CRUD – all without leaving the Kotlin ecosystem. See you at KotlinConf'26! ➡️ kotlinconf.com

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 04/03/2026

A chat with Alan and @queencodemonkey.dev about AndroidX, API design, and Kotlin youtu.be/HdlAlN_u_-Q?...

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API Design at Google: Building Android Libraries

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hi friends I just got laid off along with 40% of Block. No idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Almost all of Cash Mobile Engineering was laid off today. None of us have any clue what their rubric was for choosing who stayed and who went, but whatever it was, I'm on the job market again!

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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 24/02/2026

If you've built an Android app in the last decade, you've almost certainly shipped Jesse Wilson's code to your users. 🎙️Our newest Beyond the Noise episode with @swank.ca just dropped – tracing the open-source decisions that shaped modern Android! 🎧 Listen today:

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beyond the noise - Jesse Wilson: From SourceForge to OkHttp, and Why WebAssembly Beats the AI Hype

Matt Klein sits down with Jesse Wilson, one of the most influential engineers in the mobile world, to trace the open source dominoes that shaped modern Android—from pre-GitHub SourceForge projects to…

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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Yuri Schimke @schimke.ee · 18/02/2026

I'll be speaking on RemoteCompose: Building for remote surfaces with Compose kotlinconf.com/schedule/?day=2026-0…

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Cédric Champeau @melix.champeau.me · 18/02/2026

Today, @maxandersen.xam.dk and I are happy to announce TamboUI, a terminal UI framework for the Java ecosystem! melix.github.io/blog/2026/02...

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Cédric Champeau's blog: Announcing TamboUI

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Yasmine Evjen @yasmine.is · 18/02/2026

Our lead visual designer wrote about the complexity of designing for transparent screens. Learn how we approached building Jetpack Compose Glimmer, the design language for Glasses experiences on Android XR. design.google/library/tran...

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How to Design for Transparent Screens - Google Design

Behind-the-scenes of designing the next generation of interfaces for AI glasses with displays—including Jetpack Compose Glimmer, the newly launched design system for Android extended reality (XR) expe...

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KotlinConf @kotlinconf.com · 17/02/2026

📣 The full #KotlinConf26 schedule is now live on our website! Explore the talks, workshops, and speakers, and start planning your agenda today. Check it out: kotl.in/conf26-schedu

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Yiğit @yboyar.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Really nice episode on the history of Kotlin and the future of programming languages by Andrey Breslav & @pragmaticengineer.com pca.st/episode/8d6081d6-3419-4e9a-b…

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Fabien Sanglard @fabinou.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate: fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_op...

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How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I really urge you to not just shake your head at the headline of this but to read each word, to imagine each step these kids took, to sit with the terrible dilemma of the mother, to imagine the principal driving toward Whipple.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

NATO did not "stay a little back, off the front lines." Danish, British and Estonian troops served in Helmand, and Canadian forces in Kandahar - the two most dangerous Afghan provinces. Denmark, UK, Estonia & Canada suffered amongst the highest per‑capita soldier death rates when defending the US.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/01/2026

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 16/12/2025

One of the most fascinating reads about the history of a software product I've ever read. Grab a copy if you haven't read it yet. You also get Chet Jokes as a bonus! And if you have read it, pick up "Show-stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft"

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Yasmine Evjen @yasmine.is · 12/12/2025

We released Developer Preview 3 of the #AndroidXR SDK, opening augmented experiences development for Al Glasses. To help you build for Display Al Glasses, we are releasing Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design language and UI Toolkit for augmented experiences.

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 08/12/2025

You shared that androidx libraries are constantly in alphas and we listened. In the past two years while adding a ton of new libraries we actually increased the percentage of libraries that are complete or actively developed. The combo of these two groups went from 64% to 76%. #androidx #androiddev

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 07/12/2025

New blog post on how to detect tap on arbitrary shapes with Jetpack Compose, and in general how to easily check if a given set of coordinates is contained inside a path. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/a...

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Nicolas Roard @camaelon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Yep there's a lot of work left depending on what you want to achieve -- we are focusing on widgets a lot for now. But the good thing is it's all in androidx, and we welcome feedback very much so :-)

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