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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 · 18/06/2025

The math seems to check out - it's 0.1%, which rounded to the nearest whole percent is 0%. Is there a good reason to instead say "less than 1%" ? For 27.2% should it say "less than 28%"? Or "more than 27%" ? (Really asking, I don't understand the ux principle..)

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Sorry, it looks like the bug tracking component itself was misconfigured; that's been corrected now and the bug (and any others in the same category) should now be accessible externally.

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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 · 11/06/2025

Yes! Just file it in the normal android studio category (available from the Help menu) and it should be routed appropriately

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

We've definitely heard the request; nothing to announce yet though.

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

I recommend setting up an API key (check the Gemini settings in Studio); that switches to a model which seems to do a better job with function calls. If not you sometimes have situations like the following :-)

A screenshot showing a snippet of a conversation I had with Gemini in Android Studio where I had asked it to help fix some code, and it asked me to respond with the contents of the file in question -- instead of just reading it itself. I'm reminding it it can do that, which it then proceeded to do.

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

We have a long list of improvements and fixes we're working on (along with expanding the set of available tools of course), but given the strong interest we also wanted to make it available to start experimenting with! I'm already finding it quite useful.

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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 · 28/05/2025

A File is also not a file 😀

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Yep - this is issuetracker.google.com/issues/62121... - we'll have more documentation soon. @ducrohet.bsky.social, want to add anything?

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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 · 22/05/2025

Paging @fabinou.bsky.social , the tech lead for adb who did a lot of the work. Studio isn't enough, I think adb is the most important part, you may need OS improvements too for the standby listening thing; Fabien, what are the minimum versions?

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It only started working properly a few weeks ago so not a lot of experience yet; I deliberately picked very simple examples for the demo to get the point across, but it seems to generalize to larger codebases too (it also has access to grep tools etc). But local codebase awareness needs more work.

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

and here's a Journeys sneak peek at Journeys, also demoed by Florina: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP1t...

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Agentic Experiences: Journeys

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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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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Thanks, I'm looking forward to it!

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I'm using it now; there are still some issues here and there but it's where all the effort is being spent by the Kotlin team so probably the right place to be and provide feedback and stats!

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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 · 20/02/2025

...and here's the whole series, android-developers.googleblog.com/search?q=mee... -- featuring @jamaleason.bsky.social , @parishsu.bsky.social @tjohns.net -- and more in the future!

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I think the Italian friends would say guanciale, not pancetta, right? (But it's harder to find. I drive to Eataly in the South Bay for it.)

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Thanks, I can reproduce it! I've filed issuetracker.google.com/392305442

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

We've also posted a blog post to mark the occasion, with some very nice quotes from our partners (including @hadihariri.com). Again, thank you to everyone along the way -- our users, our partners, and our whole team! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/andr...

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Android Studio’s 10 year anniversary

Highlights from Android Studio's 10th anniversary of its stable release, showcasing its mission to empower Android developers with excellent tools.

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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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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

You could write an IntelliJ plugin which implements an inspection, but your best bet is writing an Android Lint check; these will run both in the IDE as well as from CI, and there's a rich API and pretty decent documentation: googlesamples.github.io/android-cust...

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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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