Saket Narayan

One of the reasons I originally replaced my Pixel Fold with the Samsung Fold 8 was its weight (257g vs 201g). I could finally use it one handed without my pinky tiring out after an hour. I'm curious how people will find the iPhone Duo at 254g.

The visual balance of android's home screen menu feels so off. The icons are heavier than their labels and aren't even optically aligned. Any designer would immediately flag this, so I'm surprised it shipped. You'd rarely see this from Apple.

Every time I use iOS, I miss android's back gesture. Being able to swipe from anywhere on screen to navigate back, with a preview of the previous screen is so underrated.

LFG

It is mildly interesting that the creator of apilevels.com is not even an Android developer.

In good company. Thank you @androiddevs.bsky.social 💚! android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/five...

AI has made me so productive. I'm now abandoning a new side project every month instead of one a year.

Block moved all its documents to Notion two years ago. Huge upgrade over Confluence, but a lot of us still don't love it because it keeps trying to be an operating system instead of just... being a good document editor. www.notion.com/product/ship...

i made a meme

Introducing Touch Robot, something that has materially changed how I write screenshot tests. We've been using it at Block for ~2 years to catch animation and gesture bugs that static screenshots miss. saket.me/touch-robot/

The new Snapseed update is quite nice 🤌 play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Using an on-hover animation for showcasing large screen support is so satisfying. Credits: www.aviate.to

I built a tiny IntelliJ IDEA plugin for something that had been bothering me for years github.com/saket/intell...

After 2.5y of development, github.com/saket/teleph... is nearing ~600 screenshot tests that verify all possible combinations of usages. It's one of the most thoroughly tested UI libraries you'll find for Android. Shout out to my friends at emulator.wtf without whom this wasn't possible!

TIL about android's "time to take action" accessibility setting

Today I’m open-sourcing Dejavu! Testing UI performance in Jetpack Compose is frustrating. We profile and watch tools, yet regressions still creep in. I built Dejavu to make recomposition behavior something you can actually test.

The answer was no, so I'm building this myself as v2 of github.com/saket/swipe. Here's a first draft:

Did Google ever release this swipe component as part of Material Design?

Please don't boycott OSS... Follow the authors, maintainers, and contributors to them, as many of them will continue to support their projects regardless of the company they go to. Also, if you can, sponsor these individuals too! Many of them have links for sponsorship on their Github profiles.

What happens to Square / Block Android OSS projects post layoffs? Let's start with some context OSS at Square is mostly a happy accident. Jack hired Bob, who's job was attracking world class engineers, and he did that through talks & OSS.

Most of you have heard about Block's 40% layoffs by now, but the numbers are even worse. Engineering was hit harder, we've lost close to 70% of our engineers. Our leadership is plagued by false promises of "intelligence". The company you once knew as a prolific OSS contributor no longer exists.

CSS-inspired media queries in Compose UI 👀 android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/f...

Looks like Compose UI is finally addressing a long-standing issue on Android where the experience of scrolling nested lists hasn't felt as good as on iOS. issuetracker.google.com/issues/26962...

After six beautiful years in Kitchener-Waterloo, we are moving to Seattle. Grateful for the people and memories that made this place home. Hoping it feels like home too.

🪞New blog post about link previews. Which you're seeing as a link preview. Very meta.

I can finally disable background blur on Android 16. Peak 2025 moment! www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel...

I hope that every programmer I know reads and internalizes this pronto. A foundational document for LLMs in engineering practice. Much here should be obvious, but depending on your POV you will find crucial guidance here in one place or another

Time to buy phones from outside India? Sanchar Saathi might be a helpful app today, but forcing every phone to ship with a government app is a worrying precedent.

Ever wanted to try out Jetpack Palette for extracting colors from images? I built a web demo: saket.github.io/palette-demo/

Jesse and Jake were my CN Tower. I only worked with them occasionally, but I always felt reassured just knowing they were around if I needed help. I'm mad our company lost both of them in the same week, and I'm afraid the entire Android OSS community will feel the ripple effect in the days to come.

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Google Sans Flex (formerly Product Sans) is now open source! fonts.google.com/specimen/Goo...

My designer friends at Google, I love you, but this has to be one of your saddest attempts at copying Apple's UX. www.androidauthority.com/android-flas...

Google made the greatest wallpaper set in human history. Then they just… stopped. Anyone know why?

Casey Muratori pretty much sums up how I feel about LLMs for coding: "The AI will always be useless for me. I physically can't get what I want from programming when AI is involved, because what it is doing is robbing me of the experience that I wanted to have and the knowledge that I wanted to get"

2025 in one screenshot: my phone's AI is talking to another AI on a phone call.

The year is 2100. Civilization has colonized Mars. Android Studio still freezes every time my laptop wakes from sleep.

✨ New article on the latest shadow api in #JetpackCompose Recently, I have enjoyed using them to easily create fancy realistic effects Check out the article, and let me know what you build with these new apis 🤗 www.sinasamaki.com/new-shadow-api-for-jetpack-compose/

Step one after installing Android 16: turn off HDR brightness

A very nice side effect of navigation3 is that google is now publishing these building blocks that other libraries/companies have been hand-rolling for years. We were recently writing something similar for Cash App and found ourselves wishing we didn't have to maintain it ourselves.