iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026

Looks like a very helpful article! But could you make the videos more widely available please? I'm in the UK

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 31/12/2025

Happy new year, from me and my new hat

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 13/12/2025

Getting up late and having cake for breakfast

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 02/12/2025

How do I get rid of these inane AI suggestions? Stupid WhatsApp, I can communicate better than that

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 13/10/2025

Massive @vodafonegroup.bsky.social outage. I guess this about sums it up!

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 10/10/2025

Goodness me, Thessaloniki is already beautiful and I haven't even landed yet ❤️

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 05/10/2025

Ushering in a new period of low productivity

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 02/10/2025

Thanks Google Maps, that really is a highlight

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 03/09/2025

This is me stuck at London Gatwick, instead of enjoying trams in Lisbon 🤣

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 18/08/2025

My version of the same ... it was working a month ago!!

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 17/06/2025

As dictated by my 3-year-old nephew

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 22/05/2025

Thanks for the pointer... but it's not quite ready for the likes of me 😐

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 16/05/2025

Once, before digital photography, photos used to come back with these little advice labels. It was literally someone's job at the processing lab to LOOK THROUGH ALL YOUR PHOTOS and stick them on. The lack of privacy of the analogue era is wild!

Photo quality control stickers from the 1990s

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 17/04/2025

They'll claw at you if you even try

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 11/04/2025

Ahh 😌 home is where there's no R above my network symbols

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 23/03/2025

This photo is from 105 years ago. Unedited, original colour, created by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont using the Autochrome Lumière process. Original in @rijksmuseum.bsky.social Amsterdam

Sleeping girl in oriental clothing by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 23/03/2025

Woohoo, I'm @sessionize.com speaker of the day! 😁😁😁 Need someone to talk about Android or app development at your conference or place of work? Let me know!

My face on a certificate type thing showing speaker of the day

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 22/03/2025

I've written 39 articles over the last few years, on Android, coding and app startups. Finally now all linked in one place on my new site: tomcolvin.co.uk/articles

Scrolling view of the articles page of my site

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 06/03/2025

FINALLY got a complete end-to-end demo of Passkeys working in Android! This has been an very hard task; so much documentation that just falls off a cliff, and weird esoteric error messages. This demo uses Jetpack Credential Manager and SimpleWebAuthn #androiddev

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 18/02/2025

Feels like a never-ending job

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 28/01/2025

My partner's car's satnav reroutes immediately to any location I send it on the app. So I can now send her rude words whilst she's driving.

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 23/12/2024

My favourite advice from a relationship website 😆

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 13/12/2024

DevFest on Discord has just started! It's a whole 12-hour extravaganza of brilliant talks by brilliant people (...and me). Watch here: gdg.community.dev/events/detai... And I'm on at 5pm UK time to talk about creating a camera app in Android using CameraX #androiddev 😀

Mobile @ DevFest poster with my face! Talk title Let's build a modern camera app in Android

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 11/12/2024

My new #androaddev blog on how to use CameraX + Compose is now up on ProAndroidDev and @droidcon.bsky.social proandroiddev.com/lets-build-a...

Flow diagram showing how CameraX use cases and PreviewView fit together

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 10/12/2024

This photo was taken using my CameraX demo app, which shows you how to use Preview and ImageCapture use cases with Compose. Repo here: github.com/tdcolvin/Cam... and full blog write up coming soon! #androiddev

Image of Russian dolls and some game playing pieces

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 08/12/2024

At DevFest Kosova, talking and pointing. Thanks to all who came to my #AndroidDev workshop on building a camera app, I enjoyed it, hope you did too!

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 07/12/2024

Life first: my name on stairs! At DevFest Kosova

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 03/12/2024

Fun fact: the average UK home costs about 20 GB of roaming data in Kosovo, at my provider's rates. One house for 5 HD movies. (I'll be in Pristina this weekend to talk #androiddev !)

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 30/11/2024

Text truncation is a dangerous game

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 29/11/2024

My talk on Android + AI + Gemma involves writing terrible poetry using an offline LLM, title suggested by audience. Here's a particularly good/bad example of the genre

"shopping"

The cashier smiled, I bought a lemon, Now I've got a bag holding no food, just lemons, The cashier said, "That'll be $9.99!" A whole store of lemons? This is insane!

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 27/11/2024

Join me this eve for an online workshop on Android + AI (MediaPipe, Gemma, LLMs, vision tasks). 5pm UK time, 18:00 CEST. Free tickets here: gdg.community.dev/events/detai...

Workshop Wednesdays #7 - maki g Android artificially intelligent

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 21/11/2024

It's all good, I got to see what happens when they de-ice a plane which was new to me! Enjoy Milano

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 20/11/2024

On Lufthansa you get mini Lindt chocolate. I am shallow, and this is more or less enough for me to choose Lufthansa over another airline

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 14/11/2024

Wookey Hole caves - taken years ago on a Pixel 3, no edits. I am a bad photographer, the phone did all the work.

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Tom Colvin @handle.invalid · 12/11/2024

Aaaand relax. I like how easy that was.

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