Gérard Paligot

Thanks for the invitation, it was a pleasure to give my conference at the Paug meetup, discuss with the android engineers from paris and troll a little 🤏

Me on stage at Android Makers!

Gave a talk at Android Makers 2025 about integrating #JSONForms with #KMP.

Slides now online:
speakerdeck.com/gerardpaligo...

First SNAPSHOT of the jsonforms-kotlin lib is out!

Try it: github.com/GerardPaligo...

Replay coming soon.

#GDE #AMxDC25 #AndroidDev #Kotlin

For me, it is always stressful at the beginning because you think you don't have enough to say and at the end because you have too many things to say.. 😅

The @droidcon.bsky.social London keynote recording with @sebastiano.dev is out! Check out how Compose is being used to sparkle Android Studio UX ✨ www.droidcon.com/2024/11/22/p...

My talk "Why is adaptive layout a nightmare?", given at @droidcon.bsky.social London 2024, is now online!

🎥 Watch the replay: www.droidcon.com/2024/11/22/w...

📄 Slides: speakerdeck.com/gerardpaligo...

Let me know what you think!

#AndroidDev #GDE #JetpackCompose #AdaptiveLayout

KotlinConf 2025: Call for Speakers KotlinConf is an official conference by JetBrains. It is devoted to the Kotlin programming language and is the place for the community to gather and d...

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Pose toi plutôt la question : Pourquoi rester sur X ? :)

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It's easy to think every #dev should maintain a blog, contribute to open source and have multiple side projects on the go.

You can be passionate about tech without doing any of those things.

As a father, husband and full-timer, I barely have time to brush my teeth sometimes, let alone all that

🚀 Speakers wanted for 2025! 🚀

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🎤 Ready to take the stage and share your expertise at #AMxDC25 in Paris?

Submit your talk ideas and explore the selection process here ➡️ sessionize.com/android-makers… #AndroidDev

On est heureux de pouvoir soutenir les projets open source que nous utilisons !

Building for multi-form factor devices in Android: The optimal architecture This article is inspired by a talk I gave with David Ta in 2024, entitled “Why is Adaptive Layout a Nightmare?”. During that presentation…

🚀 Just published a new article where I dive deep into a modular component architecture to simplify building adaptable Android apps across various form factors.

Give it a read if you're looking for improving your app's adaptability and maintainability!

#AndroidDev

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Conclusion: Fleet shows potential and could become a strong alternative to AS. For now, we still need to switch between three IDEs: AS for Android-specific tasks, Xcode for iOS-specific tasks, and Fleet for KMP.

This is probably an essential point to work on to improve the developer experience.

Plugins: Currently, plugins aren’t supported, which makes it impossible to work with SQLDelight (from my opinion, a key library in the KMP ecosystem) or to use GitHub Copilot. While JetBrains AI is available, I find it less relevant for my needs compared to Copilot.

Previews are quite basic. I haven’t found a way to inspect outlines for internal components, interact with them, or view animation previews, and I suspect there may be additional limitations.

Less productivity: Fleet makes development feel slower. It does nothing to help create source sets, Kotlin files, and detects automatic imports after copy-paste. It also seems like the autocomplete is much slower.

I finally gave Fleet a try. It’s promising! I’m glad to have component previews back, but it still feels early in development.

Main key observations in 🧵👇

I was in the room during the demo made by @tornorbye.bsky.social and even if technically, it is very impressible, I've still so many questions.

Mainly: how do we make sure that the results are reproducible from one run to another, using the same model or a new one? And how to debug tests run by AI?

Coil 3.0 is out now! The main feature of this release is full Compose Multiplatform support, but there are tons of other smaller improvements. Check it out! colinwhite.me/post/coil_3_...

Why is adaptive layout a nightmare? Dive into the captivating realm of Android UI development in this session where we will share in-depth expertise on designing versatile user interfaces.…

🌟 What an incredible experience presenting at Droidcon London! I’m so grateful to the organizers for selecting my talk and to my co-speaker, David Ta, for sharing the stage with me. 🙌

If you missed it, you can check out my slides here: speakerdeck.com/gerardpaligo....

#AndroidDev #AdaptiveLayout