Really nice episode on the history of Kotlin and the future of programming languages by Andrey Breslav & @pragmaticengineer.com https://pca.st/episode/8d6081d6-3419-4e9a-bbf7-332257cf7da2

Yesterday was my last day at Google. What started as a 2-year Green Card journey became 11 amazing years & meeting incredible people. So many great memories from creating Jetpack to adopting Kotlin. 10/10, would do it again. It is time to move on though, try new challenges and learn new stuff!

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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My life, depicted by Frida 🥰

New blog post: Parallelism with Android SQLite blog.p-y.wtf/parallelism-... What started an ANR investigation ended up with a deep dive into Android SQLite's connection pool... #AndroidDev

The Android UI & Jetpack Compose team is building a new team in Bengaluru! Join us in building exciting new APIs for Jetpack Compose as well as the other UI libraries and help us expand to Bengaluru. EM: goo.gle/4gt9dMl SWE: goo.gle/4dQb9w7 PM: goo.gle/compose-pm-in DevRel: goo.gle/3DE8B7T

I try to pack light when possible to travel with a carry on and avoid baggage claim stress. And guess which genius forgot his carry on luggage on the plane 🤦‍♂️

All stars point to improving app performance this season. 🌟 Let Reddit's big Ws show you the way. android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/12/redd...

Reddit improved app startup speed by over 50% using Baseline Profiles and R8

Reddit implemented Baseline Profiles, R8 full mode, and Jetpack Compose, seeing faster startup times, smoother scrolling, and improved user experience

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If you are looking for an interesting movie, try Conclave g.co/kgs/yLdrejt. It is fun, stressful and twisty.

I'm trying to restart using bluesky since the Android community seems to have moved here but getting a lot of allergies due to the default app quality. Which client are people using on Android?