My fav new feature in the latest Android release is "Connected Displays".🖥️
You are able to plug in your phone to a big screen, and benefit from all the extra space that the screen provides 🤯
This means you should *really* ensure your app works on diff screen sizes.
To demonstrate how the various new FlexBox properties affect layout behavior, I created a little visualizer experiment: sanbeiji.com/experiments/...
Try adding items, messing around with the property values, etc., to see how things change! Example code changes appear at the bottom.
Nice! I'm curious what kinds of things you did that led to the response
Our lead visual designer wrote about the complexity of designing for transparent screens. Learn how we approached building Jetpack Compose Glimmer, the design language for Glasses experiences on Android XR.
design.google/library/tran...
Photo of a green headed Android vinyl figure in a red costume holding a brown hobby horse. Toy created by Andrew Bell
And we're off to the races! The Year of the Horse Android figures I designed are now up in my shop! shop.deadzebra.com
Happy 🌝 New Year everyone! #ArtToys #Android #AndroidDev #LunarNewYear
It is the year 2026, people are still confused about compileSdk and targetSdk. (e.g. you can have targetSdk that is higher than compileSdk)
www.liutikas.net/2026/02/13/R...
Maybe this will explain it a bit more.
#android
The new major version of androidx.tracing is now available on Google Maven. We’ve spent the last year optimizing it, so it's extremely low overhead.
The documentation is available at: developer.android.com/topic/perfor...
Happy Tracing!
It was such a cool event! It was an honor to help with judging, and it was great to see folks bringing their creativity and talent to build experiences on #AndroidXR with #Gemini
Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
I'm seeing more and more instances of "we don't look at compiler output, so when LLMs generate code, we don't need to look at the output"
LLMs are not compilers. With a compiler, you provide a highly detailed spec and know exactly what you are getting.
👀 Want to see a preview of what's coming up in #JetpackCompose?
We heard you that debugging shared elements is tricky. In 1.11.0-alpha03, a new composable LookaheadAnimationVisualDebugging was added.
Wrap your SharedTransitionLayout to add visual cues to track down those hard to debug issues. 🐛⤵️
If you live in the US, and you want to contact your representatives about this topic, the link makes it very easy. You can probably be done in under a minute or two
Engage 🚀
All of the technical sessions from the event are available online now.
Take a look and let us know what you think 💚
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
We released Developer Preview 3 of the #AndroidXR SDK, opening augmented experiences development for Al Glasses.
To help you build for Display Al Glasses, we are releasing Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design language and UI Toolkit for augmented experiences.
Navigation 3 sets the stage for navigating with scenes!
Be sure to tune in to @codewiththeitalians.it at cwti.link/twitch now to see @donaldturner.bsky.social and myself experiment with Navigation 3!
New blog post on how to detect tap on arbitrary shapes with Jetpack Compose, and in general how to easily check if a given set of coordinates is contained inside a path.
www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/a...
Quick reminder that the Nav3 engineering team will be live in 1 hour answering questions. Ask anything you like about Nav3 using #AskAndroid. Livestream is here: www.youtube.com/live/JsugLEM...
Every day this week we're publishing content to help you get started with Nav3. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/lear....
Got questions? Post them using #AskAndroid and we'll answer them live at 9am PST on Friday here: www.youtube.com/live/JsugLEM....
In case you want to become a benevolent Gradle overlord, I've got you some tips
Recording:
youtu.be/o99f54pYGgc?...
Slides:
speakerdeck.com/aurimas/the-...
#gradle
It's always exciting when we can share more of what we've been working on. Be sure to tune in to the Android Show for a special XR Edition next Monday if you can goo.gle/TAS-XR
We're hosting a live Ask Android session to cap off Performance Spotlight Week at 6PM CET / 9AM PT today. Tune in and bring your questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMnZ...
A screenshot of a phone showing green text with different text formatting.
A screenshot of a phone showing buttons with different text styles.
See me turning the first screen into the second one, live at @devfest-berlin.bsky.social #android #python
That's pretty cool, maps.google.com seems to be using Filament now. I found its symbols in the WASM file used by the site.
A fun talk on handling fun Unicode bugs in your app by @vladimirj.dev
One of my first bugs in Chrome was due to Turkish letters "i" and "ı" that need special handling when changing to upper vs to lower case.
youtu.be/CHRgrgCLaOE?...
#android #unicode
Thanks @androidweekly.bsky.social for featuring my recent article, 'Understanding the native SDK wrapper pattern in Kotlin Multiplatform', this week!
In this article, we’ll explore how RevenueCat’s delegation pattern wraps native Android and iOS SDKs.
www.revenuecat.com/blog/enginee...
If you weren't able to attend our talk on Android XR live at droidcon London 2025, the recording is up now. Check it out and let us know what you think
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkbU...
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