Ed Holloway-George 🍝

Hello X users 👋 I am also available on other (good) platforms! 🔗 linktr.ee/sp4ghetticode Hope to also see you there! #AndroidDev

The first alpha of Room 3.0 is here! Room 3.0 includes big API changes: ✅ Kotlin-only code gen ✅ KSP-only (Goodbye, KAPT!) ✅ Coroutines-first APIs ✅ JS & WASM support Get ready to migrate → goo.gle/4sJZaZ5

An update since I checked last... 😂

Tis' the season... 🎄

Thanks again to @droidconLondon for letting me speak and getting the videos out so quickly ✨

🚨 My #dcldn25 talk is now LIVE 🚨 Going Beyond Obfuscation: Advanced Techniques for Protecting Android Apps 🔗: youtube.com/watch?v=carU3F… #MobileSecurity #AndroidDev

@mrousavy @shibasis0801 I don't have really any NDK experience, so perhaps you are right and the support for that is lacking behind the standard JVM dev experience In any case, if you are experiencing issues I hope you are raising bug reports! Would suck to experience issues and not have them addressed

@mrousavy @shibasis0801 Thanks for explaining, it sounds like performance and UI seem to be your main gripes? I suspect because you are using it in a _slightly_ less common way FWIW, JetBrains Toolbox is a great way of managing Android Studio installs. So you can check that issue off by using that 😁

all JVM languages (Java or Kotlin) are honestly such a pain to use and feel outdated and slow, prove me wrong. - The IDEs suck, constantly have bugs and have the worst DX of all dev environments - There's no stack-allocation for structured types (even a simple struct like Point{x,y} needs to be heap allocated) - Null-safety was slapped onto it because everything is heap allocated (some Kotlin APIs promise non-null, but then it's null - looking at you, camera2) - There's hundreds of ways of doing concurrency - non-interopable (Executor, Handler, Coroutines, Thread, ...) - There's no preprocessor (if DEBUG) - Garbage collectors suck imo

@joreilly 😂 That little bird's passport must be as thick as an encyclopedia by this point!

Aww, I just noticed that Owlie makes an appearance in picture below 😀🦉

@mrousavy @shibasis0801 Interesting, is that with KMP/Android native projects or projects that use frameworks like React Native? Curious to why your experience seems so different Anecdotally, having been both an Android/iOS developer & now working in KMP, Xcode is painful in so many frustrating ways!

@Sp4ghettiCode @shibasis0801 I've been using Android Studio a lot for the past 6 years.

@mrousavy @shibasis0801 Respectfully, I highly doubt you have used JetBrains-based IDEs extensively from that assessment of XCode

1. Xcode is much smoother and feels like a complete product, whereas Android Studio feels like features have been bolted onto it and issues have been duct-taped to fix it. I agree that AS has more features, but the experience is way worse 2. Valhalla will be a long time before it can actually be used, and will likely never be a thing on Android because they built their own ART. Also, Project Panama sounds cool (actual working FFI instead of crappy JNI), but that also won't be a thing for Android, ever. 3. / 4. Many Android APIs take Executors (eg CameraX ImageAnalysis), many take Handlers (eg ImageReader, which ImageAnalysis uses under the hood btw and just does an extra Thread hop from Handler -> Executor, super stupid imo), and some have Coroutine APIs - I've seen equal amounts of all of them, so there's no clear bias. Handler <> Executor is the main problem imo 5. / 6. Agreed!

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@sinasamaki Genuine question, as someone that has pretty limited 3d graphics experience is there a particular book, resource or learning path you'd recommend that focusses on either Android or Compose? I'd love to be able to dive deeper and learn a bunch

🧊 back to experimenting with cubes again. There's something magical about faking 3d elements 🪄✨

Just updated my MBPs to Tahoe and I can't help but feel the same as I did when I migrated from XP to Windows Vista way back when The UI is liquid glass, but hold the 'gl'...

I just sponsored @github_skydoves After seeing (and briefly meeting) Jaewoong @ Droidcon London, his open-source work is by far some of the most impressive & important in our space right now I highly recommend supporting his continued work if you can ❤️ github.com/sponsors/skydo…

I'm happy to share that I published a new open-source library, Compose Stability Analyzer! This is a plugin that provides real-time stability analysis for Jetpack Compose functions in Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA. github.com/skydoves/compo…

Mobile scams are getting smarter. So are we 🧠 New 3rd-party data from YouGov, Counterpoint Research, & Leviathan Security Group is in: Android’s AI-driven safeguards provide more comprehensive and intelligent protection against mobile scams than iOS 🤖🔒 See the data and learn how we keep you safe: security.googleblog.com/2025/10/how-an…

And a legend was born! 💪💚 Working with John at Kraken is a privilege and the wider community is extremely lucky to have dedicated folk like him to learn from

@HHaandr Of course 💪

@Sp4ghettiCode Bonus points if you did it from droidcon

It's Friday, meaning it's time to ship! (Right?!) 🚀 I've just released a minor update to my encrypted-shared-preferences fork This release bumps to tink version v1.19.0 Check it out: github.com/ed-george/encr… #AndroidDev

The #Android libraries available for #KMP (and #CMP)