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Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster

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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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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

IntelliJ is turning 25 -- and there's a documentary coming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwMX... Can't wait to see it. I'm really interested in history -- and there are a lot of good books about the tech industry too, but not developer tools!

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IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | out now 🚨

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Here's another episode of the ADB podcast! There's been a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about Android's new developer verification requirement, so I spoke with Matthew, Patrick, Raz and Naheed to dig into what it is, what it isn't, and how it works. youtu.be/A7DEhW-mjdc

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Android developer verification

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Compose 1.9 is now stable! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what... On top of the many new features, there are significant performance improvements (which you can configure further, see the prefetch API for LazyList), and for debug builds, you can turn on richer stack trace information!

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What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release

The Jetpack Compose 1.9 release introduces features like advanced shadow modifiers, new visibility modifiers, and enhanced rich styling capabilities.

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

We have a new episode of the Android Developers Backstage podcast up -- this time @chethaase.com and I are talking to Melba Nuzen and Ralston Da Silva from the Compose team about Autofill! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb6b...

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Autofill in Compose

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We have a new episode of the ADB podcast up -- I'm chatting with Siva Velusamy and Sandhya Mohan about the new features in Gemini in Android Studio -- the new agent mode and the upgrade agent! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlh6...

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Bot to the future: Two years later

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The new agent in Android Studio is enabled in yesterday's canary build! This build doesn't have all the tools hooked up that I showed in the I/O demo last week (agent here: youtu.be/KXKP2tDPW4Y?...), such as the Gradle awareness -- and it also doesn't have the Upgrade Agent yet. Hopefully soon!

Screenshot of the new agent tab in Gemini in Android Studio showing the input prompt and sample queries

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My favorite "hidden" feature on Android is turning on the screen zoom by long pressing both volume keys. I use it all the time to read tiny text when apps don't properly support or limit zooming...

Screenshot of the magnification shortcut setting on Android which is how you can enter a mode where pinch gestures magnifies everything

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Our annual "What's new in Android Developer tools" presentation is now online! Most of these features are already available, but though the upgrade agent and the general agent are baking a little bit longer, should be out very soon if all goes according to plan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKP...

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What's new in Android development tools

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We have some great new library updates for Android developers: navigation 3 android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno... and -- look at all these Compose improvements: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/what...

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Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3

Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers to build robust experiences.

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Here's a sneak peek at the upgrade agent, just demoed by @florinam.bsky.social in the Google I/O developer keynote! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubyP...

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Agentic Experiences: Version Upgrade Agent

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Gearing up for Google I/O next week. The team is super hard at work putting the final touches on things for @jamaleason.bsky.social and I to present. Hope you can tune in! io.google/2025/explore...

Screenshot of the web page for next week's "What's new in Android development tools" talk at Google I/O, airing Wednesday May 21, 2025 at 10am Pacific time.

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We have a new episode of the ADB podcast up, this time covering KMP -- Kotlin multiplatform. Yigit Boyar (@yboyar.bsky.social), Dustin Lam and I discuss library support, developer experience and a lot more. I found it fascinating, but Yigit's dog fell asleep... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7O...

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Kotlin Multiplatform: Have your code and eat it too

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Ian Lake @ianlake.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

There's #JetpackReleaseNotes for *40* new releases today, headlined by bug fix releases in DataStore 1.1.4 (corruption fixes!), Benchmark 1.3.4, Camera 1.4.2, and Graphics Core 1.0.3, Compose 1.8.0-rc02, and a brand new Biometric API in its 1.4.0-alpha03 release developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

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Recent Release Notes | Android Developers

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Forgot to post about this last week, but we have a new episode of ADB up where we delve into Compose performance with @intelligibabble.bsky.social and @chuckjaz.bsky.social (and of course @romainguy.dev ) There are a lot of cool optimizations on the way! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr_e...

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The traffic on the freeway this morning was so slow that Google Maps concluded I must have stopped at a nearby business.... 😂😭

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Our new ADB podcast episode covers the ten year anniversary of Android Studio, where @ducrohet.bsky.social and Jamal Eason joined us to look back at the early decisions and highlights over the years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhP4... (J had to leave early so missed the thumbnail photo at the end)

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Happy birthday, Android Studio!

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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 10/01/2025

Hello, World! 🌍 IntelliJ IDEA is now on Bluesky. We’re here to share coding tips, provide updates, and stay connected with you. 📢 Follow us, tag your dev friends, and help spread the word!

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is now stable!! Along with a brand new IntelliJ IDE version and various other features, this now includes the custom code transformations Gemini feature, generate commit message, etc etc. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/andr...

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Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is Stable!

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop (2024.2.2) introduces Gemini AI assistance for coding tasks, debugging improvements for Wear OS Tiles and more.

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Today marks the ten year anniversary for Android Studio! 🎉 We released version 1.0 on the morning of December 8th 2014: android-developers.googleblog.com/2014/12/andr...

Screenshot of Android Studio 1.0 in dark theme with the source editor on the right, and multi-configuration layout preview on the right showing a layout across a variety of devices.

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I hate it when restaurant servers take orders without writing them down. Instead thinking the service is top notch and feeling flattered that my order is important enough to be committed to memory, I'm just stressed on their behalf that they're going to forget something...

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

None of us are very excited about turkey, so our tradition is tri-tip (which apparently is a California thing -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-tip). The plan is 4 hours sous vide and then finish on the grill!

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Kotlin 2.1 is out! kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsne... I'm excited about better dollar substitution in raw strings! In lint's test DSL there's a workaround for it. Look at the screenshot -- unescaped $'s? But how? If you look carefully, it's a lookalike! cs.android.com/search?q=%22...

A screenshot of a lint unit test with a multiline literal string, seemingly using a single dollar sign in the string. But it's not a real dollar sign, it's a unicode lookalike.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 27/11/2024

The latest episode of ADB is out! @tornorbye.bsky.social and I had a chat with Shai Barack about system health and performance tools, including Compiler Explorer from @matt.godbolt.org. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXW...

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Rules about performance tools - Android Developers Backstage

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Maru Ahues Bouza @maruahues.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

📢 Exciting news for Android developers! 📢 The first Developer Preview of Android 16 is here! 🎉 With a shift towards more frequent API releases, starting with a major release in Q2 2025, bringing faster innovation to your apps and devices. Test your apps and give us your feedback! goo.gle/4fBRcek

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The First Developer Preview of Android 16

The first Developer Preview of Android 16 is available now, featuring faster API releases, new API level constants, an embedded photo picker and more.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 19/11/2024

@tornorbye.bsky.social and I were just discussing one of his new lint checks, and it reminded me that Kotlin lambdas can lead to boxing of primitive types if you're not careful. A non-inline function that takes a lambda will compile down to the generic Function* types and your primitives will box.

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · 12/11/2024

Android Studio Meerkat has arrived! developer.android.com/studio/preview

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I stopped using Twitter two years ago, deleted my tweets and set my profile to private. Maybe I'd return one day? But that appears unlikely now, so I just pulled the trigger and deleted my 15 year old account. Since I've been absent for 2 years, I already know I won't miss it!

Screenshot of "account deactived" screen shown once I clicked to delete my account.

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Huyen Tue Dao @queencodemonkey.dev · 08/11/2024

Re-watching demos from #dcldn24, what Tor was saying last week is sinking in. Journeys are not just a natural language test definition on top of Espresso. But also, the AI is LOOKING 👀 at the UI as you, a human, would for correct behaviors. That's… so powerful. www.youtube.com/live/iKTgKGe...

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Did my part to save democracy!

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

I'll be at droidcon London tomorrow, where we'll be showing off a number of new updates. If you're there in person, I'd love to say hello! If not, we'll be livestreaming the keynote as part of TheAndroidShow - here's how to watch goo.gle/3NuXwrt

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Set a reminder: tune in for our Fall episode of #TheAndroidShow on October 31, live from Droidcon!

The Fall episode of #TheAndroidShow with the latest Android Developer news will be livestreamed from Droidcon in London on October 31st at 10AM PT .

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

We have a new episode of the Android Developers Backstage podcast out! This time @romainguy.bsky.social and I chat with @sebastiano.dev from the Android Studio team (and codewiththeitalians.it) about Compose+Jewel and its increasing use in the Studio code base. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmjK...

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Studio Jewelry - Android Developers Backstage

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