What blew Jason’s mind at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked. Plus why Google is acquiring HTC VR folks. DTNS with @jasonhowell and @queencodemonkey

https://dailytechnewsshow.com/2025/01/23/google-is-acquiring-htc-engineers-for-android-xr-dtns-4941/

I'm Buddhist but all I can think to say right now is… Godspeed, America.

May the country to which and the values for which my family immigrated 50 years ago endure.

Hey, friends! I have cleaned up the code from my Droidcon talk "Creating Custom Compose Layouts, Step-by-Step" and updated the README to have a walkthrough of the code as I went through during Droidcon London. I did not transcribe the talk, but if you have seen (or do see the talk after the video is published) I hope you can follow along code-wise.

https://github.com/queencodemonkey/creating-custom-compose-layouts

I am having intermittent issues right now with my client and I am too slow with Buffer so any Droidcon London stuff, I'm posting on Bluesky for now. (Also more and more Android fam over there).

https://bsky.app/profile/queencodemonkey.bsky.social/post/3l7sgyx55cb2y

@botteaap Feels like in the last week or so we are getting more and more #androiddev traction FWIW. Sorry not sorry for making you sign up to another network. ♥️

@botteaap It was a super super fun set, friend. ♥️

Consider this a petition to get @droidcon to have @botteaap spin at a Droidcon party (like NYC or London) because 🔥 and also Community DJ, wut?

https://www.twitch.tv/botteaap

Streaming House tunes again, come join me, say hi and do a little dance 👯‍♂️

https://twitch.tv/botteaap

@androidfaithful Just listening to JP talk, it's easy to see his knowledge and enthusiasm for Widgets, not just from a strictly engineering perspective but also as an underutilized surface for engaging with users. It's a crucial skill and something of a superpower to speak to the product/business aspects.

Here's our @androidfaithful interview with Jonathan Petit-Frere, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, joining me and @MishaalRahman to talk about Android Widgets, why they are so hard to build, and what we need to make more and better widgets for our users: https://youtu.be/3eQnL0n6xXc

Check out JP's Droidcon NYC talk here: https://www.droidcon.com/2024/10/17/building-modern-responsive-widgets-with-jetpack-glance/

The all-new OxygenOS 15! 🚀

🎨 Flux Themes with stunning One Take animations
🖼️ AI Photo enhancements, reflection removal, AI Notes
📱 Split notification shade
🔒 Theft detection and offline device lock

https://youtu.be/89IQSt3qL8k

Beta coming to #OnePlus12 on October 30th! 📱✨

My @androidfaithful co-hosts (@jasonhowell, @ronxo, and @MishaalRahman) and I were at Droidcon NYC to do some podcastin' and some interviewin'. We'll be posting to YouTube on our parent channel, @dtnsshow.

Here is the first with the OGest of Droidcon NYers, Kevin Galligan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPhIY-XGsvY

Have you heard Korea has a population crisis? Want to know why Koreans stopped Dating? David Kim breaks it down. No hype. Just facts. https://youtu.be/EKPh1PWibmc

I'll be presenting at Droidcon London on Oct 31st on "Gradle: The Build System That Love to Hate You". If this clickbait talk title does not intrigue you, I don't know what will!

They have tickets available, so you still have time!

#droidconLondon2024

https://london.droidcon.com/aurimas-liutikas/

@bentrengrove You have done more to save me from recompositions than anyone else. My YouTube downloads are FULL of your talks from the last several years about Compose performance, and they STAY in Downloads as a reference. I'm sure I've awkwardly said it before, but I think you're overdue for another THANK YOU.

Just this last weekend, I managed to work through some really funky stuff that I only worked through because of leads from the aforementioned talks.

british people at 3 AM:

@jacobras Oh damn, I am quite late to the party. I'm not sure how but I hadn't seen it till last week.

Just in case you haven't seen the Recomposition State in the AS Debugger yet:

https://youtu.be/wgshEcDgqJ0

UPDATE: Thanks @jacobras for letting me know this feature was introduced back in Hedgehog (November 2023). Not entirely sure how I missed it this whole time, but better late than never.

@gakisstylianos Yes! And same.

I wish I could say something like, "I should have realized earlier why my layout was recomposing," but truly, I needed this tool to help me zero in on the silly things in my code. It made me connect dots I never knew to connect before WRT modifiers, Compose, and even how Kotlin data classes and function types work.

Again, a huge thank you to the Android Studio/Tools team for the work they did to make these things.