Halil Ozercan

hackathons are not hitting the same anymore...

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...

I wrote a new post on why brush may behave unexpectedly in an AnnotatedString. #JetpackCompose halilibo.com/2025/styling...

We learned a little bit about font shaping on Android, now is time for font metrics?

1.9.0-beta01 brings addStyle to OutputTransformation. This is just the start btw, more to come soon.

I've started seeing the brown screen of death almost every time I open the bluesky app on my android. What gives?

better late than never but I'm really sad that I discovered raspberry-pi + vscode.dev combo a bit too late.

vibe coding with Gemini 2.5 pro is giving me the chills. You can be as critical and as skeptical of AI but the progress is undeniable.

Pretty sure many Android devs are still around on this platform. Reply saying hi 👋 so everyone can find you. This will help people find a big bunch of colleagues to follow 👏👏 RT this for more reach! 🙏

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For the first time I'm officially a part of Google IO. Listen to us talk about text input in Compose and how it's changing. I promise you will learn something new :) io.google/2025/explore...

Writing documentation with AI assistance is kinda fun.

I tried something new today and it was surprisingly good. However I concede that the work to pleasure ratio wasn't that great.

android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/04/what... and with that, AutoSize requests come to an end...

It's time for a blog post called "you cannot center text vertically because your font file hates you"

I couldn't resist implementing this design I saw on Twitter using shared element API in Jetpack Compose.

#til removeAbcListener functions on ViewTreeObserver name their listener parameter `victim`. developer.android.com/reference/an...

I never got vibe coding but vibe blogging is real. I opened my Jekyll blog on Firebase Studio. I'm just chatting with Gemini and it is creating sections for the post, giving me ideas, proof-reading and rewriting bunch of sections. I'm sold.

Big day today... IDX is now firebase.studio! Learn more @ cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/firebase-studio-lets-you-build-full-stack-ai-apps-with-gemini

IDX + Gemini 2.5 is challenging my views on AI 😬

how is it possible that I still have the muscle memory for exiting a screen instance? I used it only for a year around 2018.

Thanks to @coryzue.com , this post now has Bluesky comments. @romainguy.dev 's invaluable comments directly show up on the page.

halilibo.com/2024/why-tex...

I have this internal document at work that I wrote more than 2 years ago. Almost every ~3 months I keep referencing it to someone new. The doc is about text scaling, rotation, translation animations on Android and why the text sometimes jitters. I should publish it at some point. Any interest?

I sense that the ChatGPT Android app has migrated to BTF2. They are also taking advantage of the receiveContent modifier. Kudos to the team, the implementation looks quite polished.

I finally got around to setting up my raspberry pi adguard at my new home. The modern internet is a hellscape.

syncing to HEAD after two and a half months...

AI confessions; I'm no longer afraid of writing(!) shell scripts.

If you need a private domain whose naming isn't important, [bunchofnumbers].xyz seems to be the cheapest option, including the renewal fee. Is there an alternative? Anything that's better should either let me use actual letters or be literally free.

Oh wow, I don't know when it happened but it seems like the Reddit Android app finally works in split screen. It used to just freeze.

translation; Average Youtube user grew up, got themselves a TV and overall Youtube content is better fit for TV anyway.

I was kinda getting hopeless about Europe's future but thanks Trump, you showed me that things can go wrong catastrophically in a much much shorter amount of time.

Fuck anxiety

This is the longest I have seen Mark Cuban be silent here lmao

A relic from the bygone days

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If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

8 yil once lojmandaki ev arkadasimin bu bardagi gece gece altima sicirmisti. 🔊

Today's 5 minute accomplishment; writing an app to re-route WOL magic packet from usb tethered device to the rest of the network. Now I just run an adb command so that my app can broadcast the request to the LAN.

Termux + X11 + proot + Debian + xfce4 + openjdk + Android Studio + aarch64 build tools. Not a ground breaking thing but it turns out that modern mobile CPUs are really good. No fans, no warming. Android Studio indexing and building the project has been a smooth experience.

I don't think this is what Compose Multiplatform's supposed to be 😅 Termux, Termux X11, proot debian, xfce4 desktop. IDEA works very well and is quite responsive. Next up; compiling compose-richtext and actually running the android app on the phone.

My Pixel Fold's inner screen couldn't make it to 2 years. A bright line appeared towards the bottom of the screen. It was a test unit so no harm done. Honestly I would have gotten the new pixel fold at full price, only if this exact thing didn't happen :/ Time to go back to regular phones...

I have seen this happen in few Reddit threads in the last year. Someone writes a fact in a comment. Somebody else comes in and corrects them. Usual Reddit, right? But recently I started seeing apology comments along the lines of "sorry ChatGPT's mistake". The guy doesn't even do a simple fact check.

Released compose-richtext 1.0.0-alpha02 github.com/halilozercan... Highlights; - Kotlin 2.0 - Compose Multiplatform 1.7.1 - Custom Markdown Block rendering - Migration to LinkAnnotation

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