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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

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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

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

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 29/06/2026

Congrats on the new role, Zac! Really excited to hear more from you and the team on your learnings from working in that space 🎉💪 Metro is fantastic, and I am sure it will fast become the de facto DI choice in the community. It's benefited hugely from your time off, so a huge thank you from us all!

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

Been using Gemini to help play with AGSL shaders too These came out incredibly well 😱 #AndroidDev #BuildWithGemini

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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

Finally, shoutout to @florinam.bsky.social and @anomiss.bsky.social who demo'd this flawlessly at #GoogleIOConnect today! I love seeing security skills getting airtime 💚

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

If you want to see more, learn about the skill's capabilities or snoop at the source code, check out the skill in the official repo github.com/android/skil...

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

Once installed, give your AI agent a prompt similar to: "Audit the codebase for component and intent security, and document any changes" Make a coffee, sit back and watch the skill do its thing!

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

Crushed it. So well articulated and thoroughly relatable

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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...

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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

No spoilers, but it was better than that 🤣

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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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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 10/12/2025

Drop me a message with an address and I will have a word and see what I can do... (no promises!)

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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 10/12/2025

That might be the best post I've ever seen. Genuinely

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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...

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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

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Google Issue Tracker

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

That's on me as well. Really pleased you made it over and I also promise I'll catch you at the next one

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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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Ed Holloway-George 🍝 @spght.dev · 01/11/2025

Nah can't be, I don't work Sundays 🤪

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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

I'm not saying you should skip my talk to go to his, but I will be speaking at 1.5x speed to catch the last 20 mins of his talk 😂😉

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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...

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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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