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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got a relatively calm day, fixed several things in mellow, out in github.com/Malinskiy/me...

Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New emu version: - live view for multiple concurrent devices - better tooling for foldables with hinge overlay support - high refresh rates support (120hz?) - copying network req/res bodies - huge perf optimizations and more. Check out the blog post for more: blog.marathonlabs.io/blog/emu-mul...

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This required graphical pipeline optimization to handle the frames efficiently with high framerates. I also tried to implement the zero-copy rendering which improved the feel of the UI significantly especially on desktop nvidia GPU, but it has too many tradeoffs

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Multi-device is coming soon to emu. Lots of technical hoops along the way, but opens up the use-cases such as paired wearable devices or multiple agents working with different devices concurrently

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For the past 10 days I've been dogfooding emu by building a native @jellyfin.org music client for android blog.marathonlabs.io/blog/dogfood...

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Small details make the experience so much better. Had fun choosing interpolators

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm dogfooding emu: building a native jellyfin client for music. One of the key features I need is android auto integration. After trying to figure out how to even do this locally, I understand why most apps don't have support for android auto. But now there's a better way

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There is no such thing as AI slop. You either don't have taste and/or too lazy to iterate to make it better

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is what ~20hr of real-life flaky Android Espresso tests packed into 15min looks like. up to 200 devices per run, no infrastructure maintenance. Just build the artifacts and get results for each PR/commit/local change before finishing your lunch

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A big part of day to day job for mobile SWEs and SDETs is installing applications and managing permissions. With emu you can easily test your app under different conditions i.e. what happens if the user revokes notification permission

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

MCP integration is not an important part. Domain-specific knowledge implemented as code is. MCP or GUI is just a view onto the same code, if it is useful then MCP/GUI is useful

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

One of the usual problems when dealing with bugs is not recording screen at the right moment. Emu records everything you do including semantically, so capturing bugs is just one button away. Examine screen or actions later, send it to colleagues. And LLM can capture these too. And reproduce issues

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

What is a native desktop app? Is it something that has to use specific UI framework or just be natively compiled? If I don't use WinUI/SwiftUI is the app still native or half native? The distinction is very clear on mobile but on desktop it's a different story

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Several years ago I got frustrated with Android's emulator tooling — the UX felt stuck in 2015 while everything else moved forward. so I built emu emu.marathonlabs.io?utm_source=b...

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