Aurimas Liutikas

A pretty interesting graph https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector

I'll be talking about "Just One More Cache" at Droidcon London 2026. I hope I'll see you there!

If you release frequent updates to your Android app (more than every 2 weeks), please set up robust baseline profile pipeline otherwise most of your users will have poor app performance (see developer.android.com/topic/perfor...)

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

The amount of shoulder shrugging when folks give Muse their email and other account access is depressing. "How bad can it be? Meta knows everything already" is such a defeatist take. Especially disappointed by @theverge.com podcast, people trust your opinions.

✨ New Video on how to create a ribbon modifier in Jetpack Compose that you can add to any Composable www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTA2...

There is something really fantastic when a city has trains to the airport every 4 minutes.

Not every day I get to create a PR to Gradle on an issue found by my team that speeds up the Square Android project by 33% for some benchmarks. github.com/gradle/gradl...

A piece of Gradle groovy magic and I am both most proud and ashamed at the same time. www.liutikas.net/2026/09/29/B... #gradle

A neat use of statistics to reduce memory usage, although I have to admit bits of this post are hazy. https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/

Make them angry and keep them with their own kind.

If you ever wondered what it takes to wire up Android Lint in Gradle, here is what the bare minimum integration looks like: gist.github.com/liutikas/e23...

I wish more apps put effort for this kind of UX polish ❤️

It looks like I'm coming to London in December! I'm excited to tell you about even more catching that you could be doing!

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.

Kotlin's success has made its support of producing binaries only 3 minor versions back too rigid. I wrote a post about it and I would love your input. www.liutikas.net/2026/09/15/K... #kotlin

It hits you really different when a mentor sees a problem round the corner and helps you develop that sense yourself as well. https://endler.dev/2026/why-i-still-believe-in-mentorship/

Tony knows his way around infra.

There is something so incredibly satisfying in reading a well crafted human authored article on a topic the author is passionate about.

A fun 2+ hour talk on the context of the often misunderstood phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil". Well done @cmuratori.bsky.social https://youtu.be/hpj6r6CjJf8?si=y9A-aJ5bi9e-7qfK

A neat set of memory optimizations that lead to huge savings for Cloudflare DNS https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/

How many alpha releases are too many releases for a library?

Android 17’s better HTTPS privacy is rad. I’m proud that OkHttp 5.5 makes it easy to adopt.

A post about finding your way through CI failures by leaving yourself breadcrumbs www.liutikas.net/2026/08/26/C... #gradle #build #android

Social media designed to be addictive? definitely not, also here is 16.7B to stop asking questions

Later this week, a new and very special video is coming out on ChromaDial ✨ If you are not caught up, here is my earlier video introducing the library, so that you will be ready for what's coming next ⏱️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DGy...

A short post on how to keep your Gradle tasks lazy. www.liutikas.net/2026/08/25/C... #gradle #build #android

👀 Compose 1.13.0-alpha01 introduces a new CapturedAnimatedVisibility composable: It instantly disposes child content on exit, animating a static GraphicsLayer snapshot instead of keeping UI nodes alive. Our testing has shown: ⚡ ~8% faster exits 📉 ~7% fewer recompositions

Here's a 3D spin animation triggered by a long press, to celebrate the completion of a task. What do you think of it? #shipaton #buildinpublic

Properly and Casualty Insurance companies are making record profit as they continue to blame the environment. I'd love our government to have our back here. https://youtu.be/cr9TQI1mCk8?si=KrdBzAsDVfF9az5h

The steps to get started with debugging Gradle in Android Studio / Intellij are really quite simple. You don't always need to println debug. #gradle #intellij #android

``` Upon reflection, I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it. ``` This rings very true https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/

Excited to see @alllex.me and team get Isolated Projects to incubating. Now it is a race to stable!

I wrote a post about what happens when you press the elephant button in Android Studio. https://www.liutikas.net/2026/08/03/What-Are-You-Syncing-About.html #gradle #intellij #build

Another 🔥-talk by Scott Jenson on things we could change in desktop UX. I especially liked the clipboard-like thing that remembers where that copy came from, I can see myself using it as anchors to jump back to when doing research. https://youtu.be/-IOLRcFC6OY?si=jk5g9Lk1Bbl_Kn0_

Congrats @androiddevs.bsky.social on 5 years of Compose 🥳 And lots of thanks for the mention, I'm beyond excited ✨🙇‍♂️🙏 android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/five...

We recorded a special episode of Android Developers Backstage to celebrate 5 years of Compose! youtu.be/HEqXwUm6vd0?...

It is hard to believe it has been 5 years since Compose 1.0.0! Amazing to have been a tiny part of this journey. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/five-years-of-jetpack-compose.html

It is awesome when you find a company really stands behind their word. I bought a PeakDesign backpack in 2016, last week a zipper broke, reached out to them, and they send me a new bag as each bag has a lifetime warranty. That is just awesome! I wish there were more companies like that.

How about NO @bsky.app ! You really don't need my birthday information to work.

I am very very excited that Gradle Isolated Projects feature is finally marked as incubating. It is time for folks to try it out and see what breaks :) docs.gradle.org/9.7.0-rc-1/r...

What really grinds my gears is folks who sign their artifacts, but every release it is a new signing key. WTF!?>!%!

"A change is not cheap just because the code was cheap to generate. It’s cheap only if a human can confidently review and own the result." github.blog/engineering/...

androidx.tracing 2.0.0 is now beta01. Updated documentation is at: developer.android.com/topic/perfor... Release notes is: developer.android.com/jetpack/andr... Happy tracing !

My talk about the "Moments When Things Go Wrong" is up! It is a tale about debugging various Gradle related issues including race conditions in Kotlin Gradle Plugin. youtu.be/bavxLLEGX4w?... speakerdeck.com/aurimas/mome... #gradle #kotlin #debugging

I've written down a few thoughts about the attention pyramid. Curious if you agree? www.liutikas.net/2026/07/12/A...