Tor Norbye
@tornorbye.bsky.social
I lead engineering for Android developer tools and libraries at Google. Opinions my own.
Android Developers Blog: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent share.google/WxTQV2u9rbbA...
Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster
The IntelliJ documentary is out now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kour... And it also covers the origin of Android Studio!
IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | An origin story
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IntelliJ is turning 25 -- and there's a documentary coming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwMX... Can't wait to see it. I'm really interested in history -- and there are a lot of good books about the tech industry too, but not developer tools!
IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | out now 🚨
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Here's another episode of the ADB podcast! There's been a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about Android's new developer verification requirement, so I spoke with Matthew, Patrick, Raz and Naheed to dig into what it is, what it isn't, and how it works. youtu.be/A7DEhW-mjdc
Android developer verification
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Compose 1.9 is now stable! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what... On top of the many new features, there are significant performance improvements (which you can configure further, see the prefetch API for LazyList), and for debug builds, you can turn on richer stack trace information!
What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release
The Jetpack Compose 1.9 release introduces features like advanced shadow modifiers, new visibility modifiers, and enhanced rich styling capabilities.
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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...
Autofill in Compose
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We have a new episode of the ADB podcast up -- I'm chatting with Siva Velusamy and Sandhya Mohan about the new features in Gemini in Android Studio -- the new agent mode and the upgrade agent! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlh6...
Bot to the future: Two years later
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The new agent in Android Studio is enabled in yesterday's canary build! This build doesn't have all the tools hooked up that I showed in the I/O demo last week (agent here: youtu.be/KXKP2tDPW4Y?...), such as the Gradle awareness -- and it also doesn't have the Upgrade Agent yet. Hopefully soon!
My favorite "hidden" feature on Android is turning on the screen zoom by long pressing both volume keys. I use it all the time to read tiny text when apps don't properly support or limit zooming...
Our annual "What's new in Android Developer tools" presentation is now online! Most of these features are already available, but though the upgrade agent and the general agent are baking a little bit longer, should be out very soon if all goes according to plan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKP...
What's new in Android development tools
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We have some great new library updates for Android developers: navigation 3 android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno... and -- look at all these Compose improvements: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/what...
Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3
Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers to build robust experiences.
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Here's a sneak peek at the upgrade agent, just demoed by @florinam.bsky.social in the Google I/O developer keynote! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubyP...
Agentic Experiences: Version Upgrade Agent
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Gearing up for Google I/O next week. The team is super hard at work putting the final touches on things for @jamaleason.bsky.social and I to present. Hope you can tune in! io.google/2025/explore...
We have a new episode of the ADB podcast up, this time covering KMP -- Kotlin multiplatform. Yigit Boyar (@yboyar.bsky.social), Dustin Lam and I discuss library support, developer experience and a lot more. I found it fascinating, but Yigit's dog fell asleep... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7O...
Kotlin Multiplatform: Have your code and eat it too
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There's #JetpackReleaseNotes for *40* new releases today, headlined by bug fix releases in DataStore 1.1.4 (corruption fixes!), Benchmark 1.3.4, Camera 1.4.2, and Graphics Core 1.0.3, Compose 1.8.0-rc02, and a brand new Biometric API in its 1.4.0-alpha03 release developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...
Recent Release Notes | Android Developers
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Forgot to post about this last week, but we have a new episode of ADB up where we delve into Compose performance with @intelligibabble.bsky.social and @chuckjaz.bsky.social (and of course @romainguy.dev ) There are a lot of cool optimizations on the way! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr_e...
The traffic on the freeway this morning was so slow that Google Maps concluded I must have stopped at a nearby business.... 😂😭
Our social team has created a "Meet the Android Studio" blog series, and I got to participate! Here's my interview: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/02/meet...
Meet the Android Studio Team: A Conversation with Engineering Director, Tor Norbye
Tor Norbye, an Engineering Director at Google discusses the evolution of Android Studio, the impact of AI, and the importance of community feedback.
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Our new ADB podcast episode covers the ten year anniversary of Android Studio, where @ducrohet.bsky.social and Jamal Eason joined us to look back at the early decisions and highlights over the years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhP4... (J had to leave early so missed the thumbnail photo at the end)
Happy birthday, Android Studio!
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Hello, World! 🌍 IntelliJ IDEA is now on Bluesky. We’re here to share coding tips, provide updates, and stay connected with you. 📢 Follow us, tag your dev friends, and help spread the word!
Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is now stable!! Along with a brand new IntelliJ IDE version and various other features, this now includes the custom code transformations Gemini feature, generate commit message, etc etc. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/andr...
Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is Stable!
Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop (2024.2.2) introduces Gemini AI assistance for coding tasks, debugging improvements for Wear OS Tiles and more.
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Today marks the ten year anniversary for Android Studio! 🎉 We released version 1.0 on the morning of December 8th 2014: android-developers.googleblog.com/2014/12/andr...
I hate it when restaurant servers take orders without writing them down. Instead thinking the service is top notch and feeling flattered that my order is important enough to be committed to memory, I'm just stressed on their behalf that they're going to forget something...
None of us are very excited about turkey, so our tradition is tri-tip (which apparently is a California thing -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-tip). The plan is 4 hours sous vide and then finish on the grill!
Kotlin 2.1 is out! kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsne... I'm excited about better dollar substitution in raw strings! In lint's test DSL there's a workaround for it. Look at the screenshot -- unescaped $'s? But how? If you look carefully, it's a lookalike! cs.android.com/search?q=%22...
The latest episode of ADB is out! @tornorbye.bsky.social and I had a chat with Shai Barack about system health and performance tools, including Compiler Explorer from @matt.godbolt.org. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXW...
Rules about performance tools - Android Developers Backstage
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