"Introducing the Googlebook Linux Terminal Preview: A VM-Backed Environment for AI and Development" by Cyrus Stoller via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/10/goog... #androiddev
Harri Kirik
Harri Kirik
@harri35.bsky.social
Software engineer, gamer and a bookworm. From Karksi-Nuia, living in Tartu, Estonia.
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"Build your way: Use any AI agent of your choice in Android Studio" by Matthew Warner via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/09/buil... > New Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) feature
"Introducing the AndroidX Security State Libraries: A Unified View of Device Security" by Maunik Shah, Alec Garcia and Joseph Yong via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/09/intr... #androiddev
"Land your apps on Googlebook with adaptive development" by Fahd Imtiaz and Loryn Hairston via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/09/adap... #androiddev
"One flag stops the Compose 1.12.0 keyboard flicker" by Luca Fioravanti medium.com/@lucf15/one-... #Androiddev
"Introducing Fast and Reliable Wireless Debugging with Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Wi-Fi 2.0" by Steven Jenkins, Sherif Eid, and Fabien Sanglard via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/09/wire... #androiddev
"Emulator control for adaptive app development" by Rob Orgiu via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/emul... #androiddev
k-detect - An On-device OCR + native-style text selection for Jetpack Compose - copy text straight out of images and paused video. github.com/konvenant/K-... #AndroidDev
"AAOS SDV - Secure by Design" by by Markus Vill Istvan Nador via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/aaos... > The current trend of consolidating Electronic Control Units (ECUs) into a single chip reduces isolation by running multiple domains side-by-side. #androiddev
"Inside Android Skills - Built for deprecation" by Jose Alcérreca via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/andr... > Why are there so few official skills? > ..
"Inside SubcomposeLayout: Jetpack Compose’s Most Misunderstood API" by Shreyas Patil blog.shreyaspatil.dev/inside-subco... #androiddev
"Android Studio Quail 2 is Stable: Multi-task with the Android Studio AI agent" by Amman Asfaw via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/andr... #AndroidDev
"Evolving how LLMs are measured for Android: the next era of Android Bench" by Zoe Lopez-Latorre via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/andr...
"The Wrong Abstraction" by Sandi Metz sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/... > duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction
"Jetpack Compose Just Got Styles, Grid, and CSS-Like Media Queries" by Md Jamilur Rahman dev.to/jamilxt/jetp... #androiddev
"Expanded billing choice and lower fees on Google Play" by Paul Feng via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/play... #androiddev
"Building a Mixed-Reality Tour Guide with Android XR, the Geospatial API, and Gemini" by Coco Fatus and Alon Hetzroni via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/andr... #androiddev
"Top 3 updates for Android developer productivity" by by Simona Milanovic via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/andr... #androiddev
"Kotlin Multiplatform in Production: Two Real-World Use Cases from Booking.com" by Diego Gómez Olvera medium.com/booking-com-... #androiddev
"Prioritizing Memory Efficiency: Essential Steps for Android 17" by by Alice Yuan, Ajesh Pai and Fung Lam android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/prio... > .. If an app exceeds those limits, Android will kill the process with no associated stack trace. #androiddev
"The Hidden Problem with Theme Switching in Jetpack Compose" by Dani Mahardhika medium.com/@danimahardh... #androiddev
"What's new in the Jetpack Compose April '26 release" by by Meghan Mehta via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/jetp... #androiddev
"Streamline User Journeys with Verified Email via Credential Manager" by Niharika Arora and Jean-Pierre Pralle android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/stre... #androiddev
"Android skills" github.com/android/skills > Android skills are a dedicated repository of AI-optimised, modular instructions and resources, to help LLMs better understand and execute specific patterns that follow the best practices. #androidev
"Level up your development with Planning Mode and Next Edit Prediction in Android Studio Panda 4" by Matt Dyor android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/andr... #androidev
"Find components for your Compose apps" via composables.com #androiddev
"Change App Language in Android (Jetpack Compose) — Runtime Locale Switch" by Sagar Maiyad www.suridevs.com/blog/posts/r... #androiddev
"Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent" by Adarsh Fernando & Esteban de la Canal via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/buil... #androidev
"The Fourth Beta of Android 17" by Dan Galpin via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/the-... #androiddev
"Exploring CompositionLocal API internals in Jetpack Compose" by Shreyas blog.shreyaspatil.dev/exploring-co... > In this post, we are going to dive deep into the internals of Composition Local API of Jetpack Compose.
"Get inspired and take your apps to desktop" by Ivy Knight, Senior Design Advocate, Android android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/Get-... > .. major updates to our design resources, giving you the comprehensive guidance you need to create polished, adaptive Android apps across all form factors!
"Go from prompt to working prototype with Android Studio Panda 2" Matt Dyor via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/go-f... > .. enabling the agent to create an entire working application .., and allowing .. to automate the .. work of dependency updates. #androiddev
"Android devices extend seamlessly to connected displays" by Francesco Romano, via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/andr... > .. connected display support has reached general availability with the Android 16 QPR3 release! #androiddev
"Trade-in mode on Android 16+" by Rachel S via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/01/http... > Android 16 offers an easy way to access device information on any factory reset phone or tablet via the new tradeinmode parameter, accessed via adb commands. #androiddev
"The Embedded Photo Picker" by Roxanna Aliabadi Walker and Yacine Rezgui via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/01/http... #androiddev
"Once Upon a Time, there was a podcast. A parable about podcasting and bureaucracy." by Chet Haase chethaase.medium.com/once-upon-a-... Having occasionally been a producer myself, I greatly enjoyed this parable. Thanks! #androiddev
"LLM flexibility, Agent Mode improvements, and new agentic experiences in Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop" by Sandhya Mohan and Trevor Johns via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/01/llm-... #androiddev
"Build smarter apps with Gemini 3 Flash" by Thomas Ezan via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/buil... #Androiddev
"Brighten Your Real-Time Camera Feeds with Low Light Boost" by Donovan McMurray via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/brig... #androiddev
"Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop is stable!" by Sandhya Mohan and Trevor Johns via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/andr... #androiddev
"Tap Detection on Arbitrary Shapes with Compose" by Romain Guy www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/a... #androiddev
"What's new in the Jetpack Compose December '25 release" by Nick Butcher via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/what... > Our internal scroll benchmarks show that Compose now matches the performance you would see if using Views #androiddev
"Finger Shadows in Compose" by Romain Guy www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/f... #androiddev
"Android 16 QPR2 is Released" by Matthew McCullough via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/andr... #androiddev
"Use R8 to shrink, optimize, and fast-track your app" by Ben Weiss via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/use-... #androiddev
"Android developer verification walkthrough" video www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEAT... #androiddev
"Raising the bar on battery performance: excessive partial wake locks metric is now out of beta" via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/rais...
"High-Speed Capture and Slow-Motion Video with CameraX 1.5" by Leo Huang android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/10/high... #androiddev
"Understanding retain{} internals: A Scope-based State Preservation in Jetpack Compose" by Jaewoong Eum proandroiddev.com/understandin... #androiddev