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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 25/09/2026

🚨🎉 There's a new security skill in town! 🎉🚨 Released earlier today, the android-permission-security skill can be used to audit and apply best practices surrounding permission handling You can check it out here or install via the Android CLI: github.com/android/skil...

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skills/security/android-permissions-security at main · android/skills

Contribute to android/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 18/08/2026

🤫 We all have secrets, and some are certainly better kept that way! In my latest blog post, I discuss how to keep your app's secrets, just that - a secret sp4ghetticode.medium.com/redacted-how... #AndroidDev #MobileSec

sp4ghetticode.medium.com

[REDACTED] — How to keep your mobile app’s secrets, a secret!

Introduction

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 28/06/2026

Been experimenting with using Gemini via Antigravity to help improve the UI in a small Android app I have been building The results have been impressive! What do you think? #BuildWithGemini

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 25/06/2026

🚨 There's a new skill in town 🚨 The android-intent-security skill, part of the Android skills suite, scans your app and ensures you follow best practices for Android Intent security You can install this skill to your project (or globally) using the Android CLI #AndroidDev #GoogleIOConnect

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 21/06/2026

Any friends in Berlin this coming week for I/O Connect? 🙏

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 19/05/2026

Totally 100% not jealous of all the Google I/O attendees at all. No sir. Not one bit. But if I was to start with the puppy-dog eyes today, do you think I'll get an invite for I/O 2027? 🥺

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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

androidessence.com

Leave Me Behind | Android Essence

Simplified Android Development

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 19/04/2026

I've just blogged about my feelings surrounding the changes coming to add encryption to DataStore, how it works behind the scenes and whether the new functionality is for you 💪 You can check it out here: sp4ghetticode.medium.com/whats-new-in... #AndroidDev

sp4ghetticode.medium.com

What’s new in AndroidX DataStore 1.3.0-alpha07: Encrypt your DataStore

Welcome back EncyptedSharedPreferences, long time no see!

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 16/04/2026

Welcome back EncryptedSharedPreferences, long time no see! This wasn't on my bingo card (Blog post coming soon)

Data store release notes for AndroidX version 1.3.0-alpha07

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 10/04/2026

Truly devastated to have learned about the tragic passing of Xavier I met Xavier at my first Android Makers and his kind words, advice & excellent talk still remain with me Seeing him at conferences was a highlight. He was a wonderful person & a great community figure May he rest in peace 💚

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David Blanc @speekha.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Next up is right up my alley: "Going beyond obfuscation" by @spght.dev. Basically the session I've been looking forward to the most. #AndroidMakers26

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Renaud Mathieu @renaudmathieu.com · 09/04/2026

Amazing @spght.dev on stage!

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Ian Lake @ianlake.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉 Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...

android-developers.googleblog.com

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable

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

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 17/11/2025

😂 An opportunity to write about one of my all-time favourite developer war-stories has appeared! Very excited to share this when the time comes ✨

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 06/11/2025

Sometimes you've got to celebrate the small wins. Android Studio project wizard will add distributionSha256Sum entries to gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties to make reduce your chances of getting a malicious Gradle distribution! issuetracker.google.com/issues/26963... #gradle #security

issuetracker.google.com

Google Issue Tracker

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 03/11/2025

I just sponsored @skydoves.bsky.social After seeing (and briefly meeting) Jaewoong @ Droidcon London, his open-source work is by far some of the most impressive & important in our space right now I highly recommend supporting his continued work if you can ❤️ github.com/sponsors/sky...

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Sponsor @skydoves on GitHub Sponsors

Hi, 👋 I'm an Android/OSS Engineer. I have created and contributed more than 70+ open-source libraries related to Android & Kotlin that are used all over the globe. I'd love to give positive effect...

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · 31/10/2025

8 steps to success with Gemini in Android Studio by @joebirch.bsky.social joebirch.co/android/8-st...

joebirch.co

8 steps to success with Gemini in Android Studio | Joe Birch

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 31/10/2025

Thanks so much for coming to my #dcldn25 talk! It's always fantastic to see so many people wanting to learn more about mobile security ✨🔐 My slides are now available via my website Hope to see you at another Droidcon soon ✌️ 📽️: spght.dev/talks 📸: @tomcolvin.co.uk

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 30/10/2025

I'm so grateful for the Android community. I've seen so many old friends at Droidcon London this year and even made some new ones too What a wonderful thing to have been a part of! 💚🤖 #dcldn25

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 28/10/2025

✅ Booked hotel for the wrong days ✅ Arriving a day earlier by accident ✅ Can't find train tickets The standard travel experience with me See you at @droidcon.bsky.social London (I hope) 💪

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 27/10/2025

Made the classic mistake of checking who I clash with at Droidcon London this year 😂 Of course, it's @zacsweers.dev with the main talk I wanted to catch 🙃

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 26/10/2025

GDE Pin Board update 📌 Very grateful to be an Android GDE for another year #GoogleDevExpert #AndroidDev

A Google Developer Expert branded pin board covered in multiple pin badges

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Dinorah Tovar @ddinorahtovar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Time for a revamp! 🍃🍂 My new serie Master Class on Security is now available in my blog, we will focus on: ✅ Encryption (Part 1 is available) ✅ Passkeys ✅ Credential Manager ✅ Keystore and library migration paths ✅ Integrity and Network security medium.com/knowing-andr...

medium.com

Master Class on Security (part 1)

For Android Developers — from Encryption to Passkeys and Keystore

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sinasamaki @sinasamaki.com · 11/10/2025

✨ New article on how to create futuristic, cyberpunk glitch effects that's overused in sci-fi movies, right in #JetpackCompose www.sinasamaki.com/glitch-effec... This approach uses regular canvas functions, so no need to dip into shader code... yet. #ComposeMultiplatform #AndroidDev

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · 03/10/2025

Reminder that Compose Multiplatform (www.jetbrains.com/compose-mult...) is Stable on iOS, Android and Desktop....and now in Beta for Web.

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 15/07/2025

I am really enjoying using Warp as my daily Terminal I never thought AI and the terminal would mix, but it's definitely helped improve so much of my workflow 🚀 Highly recommend giving it a try if you haven't already!

app.warp.dev

Your invite to Warp—the agentic development platform

Warp is an AI agent platform that lets you run multiple agents in parallel to complete any development task.

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 28/09/2025

Been sick this weekend, but I am feeling marginally better and now very excited about my talk tomorrow night in Leeds Please come along, if not just to see what my fever-fed slides contain 😂 (See pic attached)

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 26/09/2025

I've been losing my mind for the last few evenings trying to figure out how to write a KMP compatible Gzip decompression method JVM & Android were easy but iOS was driving me crazy with zlib C interop and alloc calls! TIL it turns out Okio can do it all, in two lines of code 😂

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Dinorah Tovar @ddinorahtovar.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

As many of you know, I wrote Modern Security in Android a couple of years ago. It's time for a well-deserved refresh It's time to talk about some new practices that you may want to follow It will be available at the same link this Sunday 👩🏻‍💻✨🥸🍊 medium.com/knowing-andr...

medium.com

Modern Security in Android (part 1)

A fast guide to be safe

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 13/09/2025

Wrote a quick blog post about the newest AndroidX library 'androidx.text:text-vertical' 📚✨ Learn about the cool functionality this provides and why this is important, particularly if you read Japanese newspapers 🇯🇵📰 Read more: www.spght.dev/articles/13-... #AndroidDev #AndroidX

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Whats new in... 'AndroidX Text - 1.0.0-alpha01' | Ed Holloway-George | Android Developer | Android GDE

A quick look at one of the latest additions to the AndroidX suite of libraries

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 04/09/2025

One of these Droidcon London featured speakers is not like the others 😂 (It's me, the others are Android legends)

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 01/08/2025

One of the cool things I am *really* enjoying at work right now is being able to write both the backend and frontend mobile code for particular features It's made testing locally and the prototyping process so much faster 🚀

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 27/07/2025

Got into Android completely by accident. When I left uni, I had no intention of becoming an Android developer until a recruiter called to say he'd seen my CV, we had attended the same university, and he wanted me to meet some people Those people were the founders of bopple.com The rest is history

bopple.com

Digital menus, ordering, and tools for restaurants and cafés

Try Bopple's digital storefront free. Start, run and grow your café, restaurant or hospitality brand online.

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 27/07/2025

Just released v1.1.0 of my fork of 'encrypted-shared-preferences' 🚨 This version introduces a breaking change for API 21/22 users due to Tink's latest version bumping the minSdk to 23 🚨 Check out the release notes for more info github.com/ed-george/en...

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Release 1.1.0 · ed-george/encrypted-shared-preferences

What's Changed WarningDue to changes introduced in Tink version 1.18.0, this version raises the minSdk for the library from API 21 (Android 5.0 - Lollipop) to API 23 (Android 6 - Marshmallow) For a...

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 24/07/2025

My guy is 5 today 🥳🎈🎂

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 21/07/2025

Hours lost today due to Python not being able to parse 'true' as an environment variable until it is written as 'True'? Several 💀

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 15/07/2025

app.warp.dev

Your invite to Warp—the agentic development platform

Warp is an AI agent platform that lets you run multiple agents in parallel to complete any development task.

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 13/07/2025

I know it's not that important or close to impressive for most people out there, but I just ran my first 5k in under 30 mins! I'd never imagined 6 weeks ago I could do that 😭😭

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 06/07/2025

Made it home after 2 weeks away I've finally had time to update my pin board with all those I collected at this year's #GoogleIOConnect ❤️💙💚💛 Thank you so much to @developers.google.com and the GDE program for helping me learn so much, meet so many people and be a part of the community

A Google Developer Expert pin board with dozens of custom pins on

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 05/07/2025

Back from holiday and testing out on-device Gemma 3n & MediaPipe capabilities! Extremely rough around the edges, but here's a working prototype of a "Rate My Doggo" app, featuring my dog 🐕👑 #BuildWithGemini

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 27/06/2025

NYC Droidcon looked ace (but a little warm) - Will have to make it over there at some point 🍎🗽

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 27/06/2025

After dragging my feet a little, I have finally taken my first step into learning about AI I have built a very rudimentary MCP service to connect to LimitlessTCG and serve insights into recent Pokémon online tournaments! Really enjoying learning this new tech ✨

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 26/06/2025

Excited to be part of the #GDESummit once again! So many great people in one room ♥️

A presentation with slides saying Google Developrr Experts EMEA Summit 2025

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