Sam Edwards

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

Thank you @androidweekly for featuring my latest post! handstandsam.com/2026/01/07/how…

@JorgeCastilloPr Convert the video to a GIF and tell Gemini in Android Studio to do it? Wonder if it would/could figure out a way.

Yet another beautiful animation that could look neat on Android too. Another Compose challenge for the new year 🔥

📢 Kotlin 2.3.0 is out! Here are some of the highlights: ✅Language: More stable and default features, unused return value checker, explicit backing fields, and changes to context-sensitive resolution. ✅Kotlin/JVM: Support for Java 25. ✅Kotlin/Native: Improved interop through Swift export, faster build time for release tasks, C and Objective-C library import in Beta. ✅Kotlin/Wasm: Fully qualified names and new exception handling proposal enabled by default, and new compact storage for Latin-1 characters. ✅Kotlin/JS: New experimental suspend function export, `LongArray` representation, unified companion object access, and more. ✅Gradle: Compatibility with Gradle 9.0 and a new API for registering generated sources. ✅Compose compiler: Stack traces for minified Android applications. ✅Standard library: Stable time tracking functionality and improved UUID generation and parsing. Learn more: ➡️ kotl.in/2-3-0

Some nice Kotlin/Native related updates: - Improved interop through Swift export - C and Objective-C library import is in Beta - Faster build time for release tasks (up to 40% faster) #KMP

One more Nano Banana Pro generated infographic! #KMP #CMP

@joreilly This is amazing. The spelling is correct and everything. Next level.

Had another go at creating an infographic using Nano Banana Pro....this time "'Create an infographic showing architecture of a Compose Multiplatform application" #KMP #CMP

@joreilly It's nice to have it be so official! 😁

Kotlin Multiplatform docs have officially moved to kotlinlang.org #KMP

Say hello to hot reloading compose resources, supported from CMP 1.10.0-alpha01 🔥 One of the first feature requests from @zsmb13 and @Cypressious Thanks to Nikita Lipsky 😇

i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human 🧵 what led up to this breaking point

@joreilly Another: github.com/zillow/auto-mo…

@joreilly Another: github.com/takahirom/arbi…

Building an Agentic AI Mobile Tester with Koog and Kotlin maikotrindade.com/ai/kotlin/andr…

gpt-oss is out! we made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!) (and a smaller one that runs on a phone). super proud of the team; big triumph of technology.

We're having a great time at @droidconNYC and we're excited to see Maestro highlighted on stage by @HandstandSam ! We love seeing the community spreading the word on testing better and faster. Reminder: if you're around NYC, we're hosting a casual happy hour meetup tonight starting at 4:30 PM — join us: eventbrite.com/e/maestro-happ…

Got plans? Cancel them 🚨 @HandstandSam & Brian are speaking #dcnyc25! Learn how Block built Trailblaze, an LLM-powered mobile test framework that runs natural language #Android tests at scale. Get your #AndroidDev tickets before it's too late: nyc.droidcon.com/speakers/sam-e…

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1 ❤️ Model Context Protocol blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/05/i…

i love kotlin

Just got our first tariff bill. We imported $167k of floodlights and then paid $255k in tariffs. That’s more than any of our founders were paid last year. 😅😅😅