I did some experimenting with the new scoping APIs for ViewModel in the latest lifecycle update saurabharora.dev/posts/per-it... #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose

Beyond the Screen: Component-Level ViewModels in Compose

Until Lifecycle 2.11, ViewModelStore scoping was tied to navigation destinations, activities, or fragments. There was no clean way to scope a ViewModel to an arbitrary part of your UI. The Lifecycle 2...

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I recently got a parking ticket & wondered how to avoid it happening again. A few weekends with Claude Code, & I have an app that automatically detects when I park & sets a "Move Your Car" reminder. If you're in SF & want to try it, shoot me a DM or reply. Otherwise, it's coming to your city soon.

Using Graphite's MCP has really changed my workflow with Claude Code. Now instead of lining up prompts for each "commit" of the feature, I can ask it to build the entire feature and present the plan for stacked diffs 🚀

Emulator snapshots are great for Database migration. Moving from version 2 to 3 and you get a crash during dev? Boot up the version 2 snapshot, make changes and try again; Instead of cleaning cache as then you'll miss the update flow

How is the Android ecosystem changing? The tags in the @droidcon.bsky.social London CfP submissions paint a very interesting picture! (bars represent actual counts, so both years are on the same scale) Some quick analysis in follow-ups

Blogged: why Jetpack Compose bottom sheets don't show in Android Studio previews and how to fix them saurabharora.dev/posts/curiou... #AndroidDev

Curious case of missing Bottom Sheet Previews

While working on a Jetpack Compose project, I noticed my modal bottom sheet wasn’t appearing in Android Studio previews. I could preview the sheet’s contents by extracting them into a separate composable,...

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At Google IO @lojanda.bsky.social mentioned that Compose 1.9 eliminates nearly all jank in their internal benchmarks. And I kid you not, the alpha release is blazing fast. You don't need a benchmark to tell you that. You can just feel the difference. Kudos to the team

Gemini consistently messes up the year for all my calendar appointments. Even if no year is specified, it adds them to 2026 🤦🏻‍♂️

Oh lord! What have we done 😂😂 futurism.com/null-name-tr...

Woman Whose Last Name Is "Null" Keeps Running Into Trouble With Computer Systems

To this day, the last name "Null" totally flummoxes computer systems, much to the chagrin of Nulls everywhere,

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Wasted 4 hours fighting with inline images in a Compose Text. Followed documentation excatly and still didn't work. Turn out there is a known bug, open since 2013. These little things with Compose can sometimes be extremely infuriating #AndroidDev

Google Wallet apps are an absolute mess. In US they need you to use Google Wallet but outside US, they want you to use Google Pay. If you travel overseas, you can't access cards in Google wallet and can't sign up for Google Pay (need a local wallet). Who the hell is taking decisions at Google.

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description

Ben Trengrove@bentrengrove.dev · 2y ago

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description

People coming back from holidays are really going to hate me

When did "Actions on Save" became a thing in Android Studio??? This is awesome! I was using a macro before, this is way more simple to setup. #androidev

This wedding season, the show stopper has been my Meta RayBan glasses. The photo and video quality is top notch. Though it also meant, I am rarely in any photos 😂

Meta's push for AI adoption through WhatsApp is truly a game changer. Saw my mom send a AUDIO message in Hindi to MetaAI, asked it to translate it to English, got the text response in English and sent it over the friends group 🤯

Instead of 100% state fixtures for your Screenshot tests, try using model fixtures, pass it to your VM/Presenters and then use the returned state for screenshot test. Trying this out and have been loving it so far #AndroidDev