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Benjamin Monjoie :verified: (@Xzan@androiddev.social)
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#BambuLab is introducing some changes in the name of security that will limit what third-parties can do with Bambu Lab printers:https://www.allaboutbambu.com/2025/01/17/bambu-lab-set-to-introduce-some-authorization-control-mostly-breaking-third-party-integration/ If you own a BambuLab...
on Fri, 4PM
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Mez :verified: :nyanCat: (@mez@androiddev.social)
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Do Boss, by any chance, do a cut back version of the Tube Amp Expander? I want a little bit of what it does (the amp attenuation and effects) but don't need the full bells and whistles. Yes I know other brands exist 👍. #guitar #amp #attenuator
on Thu, 9PM
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Great news for Android developers with personal accounts! Google has quietly lowered the number of people who have to test your Android app before you can release it on the Play Store. Now you only 12 instead of 20 testers. More...
on Dec 20
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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📱The new Pixel Drop also brings a platform update to Android 15 QPR1. Android 15 QPR1 has some exciting new features, including: - Desktop windowing - 80% charging limit - Status bar chips for screen recording And much more that you can read...
on Dec 12
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Márton Braun (@zsmb13@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image This clipping in the Pixel Weather app makes me so uncomfortable. Where's the edge-to-edge support, Google?
on Dec 7
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image Google officially confirms the Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series, & Pixel Fold will get an additional 2 years of OS updates! The company has updated a support page to mention that these Pixel phones are guaranteed 5 years of updates - including 5 years of OS and security updates...
on Dec 6
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Hugo (@botteaap@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image I don't understand why companies think this is necessary or okay...it's a dumb dark pattern. This should be illegal.
on Nov 27
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Aurimas Liutikas :google: (@Aurimas@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image Thanks to Omar in my team cs.android.com now has cross references from non-test androidx Kotlin code 🎉...
on Nov 27
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Source: Google has canceled the Pixel Tablet 2, not the Tab 3 Google is pulling the plug on its next Pixel Tablet, citing fears the product wouldn’t sell very well. More details can be found👇 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-tablet-2-canceled-3502094/
on Nov 21
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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🏠Google is preparing to bring back a beloved customization feature from Android 11 Android 15 QPR2 may let you customize the shape of home screen icons once again on Pixel phones More details + screenshots of the settings page for this can be found...
on Nov 12
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Chris Banes (@cb@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image After what feels like a lifetime of development, I've decided to deprecate and archive Tivi 🫡 https://github.com/chrisbanes/tivi
on Nov 12
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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🐧This is HUGE: Android 15 QPR2 confirms Google is adding a Linux Terminal app, finally The new Terminal app will let developers run Linux apps in a virtual machine on their Android device. More details on how this works👇 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-qpr2-linux-terminal-3498872/
on Nov 12
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Colin White (@colin@androiddev.social)
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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! https://colinwhite.me/post/coil_3_release/
on Nov 4
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Hrafn (@hth@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image Introducing 'adb_helper'! A clean rewrite of the way-too-many individual scripts and aliases that I had accumulated over the last decade and a half, now in one convenient tool! It's focus is on making frequent multi step adb tasks more convenient; permission changes, url...
on Nov 1
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Berlindroid (@berlindroid@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image 🪄✨ Graphic Design is my passion ✨🪄 Jokes aside, next week at GetYourGuide Berlin office, it's time for you to learn * Effortless concurrency w/ Arrow-FX with Stojan Anastasov, and * EU Cyber Resilience Act with @bitpogo@mastodon.social Seats are limited! Sign up here...
on Oct 30
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Sen :androidHead: (@sen@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image I'm getting a happy @drafting@indieapps.space user who moved from iA Writer for Android! 🥰 #AndroidDev #IndieDev #TextEditor #Android
on Oct 23
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GDG Android Munich (@GDGMucAndroid@androiddev.social)
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GDG Munich Android Meetup with talks is happening today! There's still time to join: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/gdg-munich-android/events/303882444/
on Oct 22
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 2 images Breaking: Google just confirmed that the U.S. DOJ is seeking, among other changes, to force Google to split off Chrome and Android. Source: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/doj-search-remedies-framework/
on Oct 9
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pablobaxter (@pablobaxter@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image When I just need that PR approval...
on Oct 9
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image Breaking: the Judge in the Epic v Google case has just issued his final ruling, which states that Google must open up its Play Store catalog to 3P app stores and distribute those 3P app stores within Google Play. The judge also ruled that Google can't require Google Play app...
on Oct 8
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@polotek@social.polotek.net also my experience is folks who complain about this often don't realize they're not left alone because they aren't trusted because they haven't demonstrated they can be trusted, and often have demonstrated they can't be trusted..
on Sep 30
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I learned about dominators from reading the Android Studio code, and how it computes retained size. An easy def is that a dominator D of a node A is a node that if removed would make A unreachable. Hence why if you sum up the size of all the nodes that a dominator dominates, you get the...
on Sep 23
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Sepideh (@sepdroid@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image The talk on color contrast was great. #dcnyc24 Can someone add some text in thread for the image? I am not doing all that on the phone.
on Sep 21
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Raul Portales (@Sh41@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 2 images My new #MSX game: I-LOGIC, will release on September 19th. Get ready for a new platforming adventure!
on Sep 18
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Ryne Hager (@ryne@androiddev.social)
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Tesla stans are marketing driving from Florida to Canada in the summer as an "arctic expedition." I am in tears, this is so dumb. Gonna have to go to an arctic expedition to the downstairs bathroom for tissues to wipe my eyes, here....
on Sep 17
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Chris Horner (@chrishorner@androiddev.social)
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My talk from Friday is already up on Youtube! Thanks again to the #DroidKaigi staff for such a great conference. Check it out if you want to see how I recreated the in-game messaging app from Persona 5 with Compose UI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDthP0oUKc
on Sep 15
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image Oh wow, I did NOT expect Google to launch this yet! Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 enables desktop windowing support, and it runs directly on tablets just like I said it might! More details here:...
on Sep 13
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image The Files by Google app added a built-in PDF reader some time back. It's pretty barebones & only appears if you don't have any other app installed that can handle PDFs, though, so most people won't ever see it. A native PDF viewer app in AOSP would be nice to have, though...
on Sep 9
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Ian Lake (@ianlake@androiddev.social)
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Not to be outdone by #Android15, #JetpackReleaseNotes for today include Compose 1.7.0, Compose Material3 1.3.0, Compose Material3 Adaptive 1.0.0, Navigation 2.8.0, Wear Compose 1.4.0 plus bug fixes in Activity 1.9.2, Fragment 1.8.3, and Lifecycle...
on Sep 5
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Everything is not OSOM: The company born from Essential's ashes is shutting down OSOM is effectively closing up shop later this week and laying off most of its employees. My condolences to the employees who will soon be out of a job 😔 https://www.androidauthority.com/osom-shut-down-3478302/
on Sep 4
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Márton Braun :androidHead: (@zsmb13@androiddev.social)
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We have opened Kotlin Developer Survey #3, which is one of the best ways to provide your feedback around all things related to Kotlin! Please take the time to fill it out, it really helps a lot in focusing our efforts. https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/Kotlin-developers-survey-3-md
on Sep 3
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Harsh Shandilya (@msfjarvis@androiddev.social)
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#GooglePlay has started forcing a new account verification flow on developers and during the whole thing they've somehow managed to decide that I, as a publisher of exclusively free apps, make money on Google Play and thus need to doxx my full home address on every store listing of my apps....
on Sep 2
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Geoffrey Métais (@geoffrey@androiddev.social)
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@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Can you pease fix duplicated tabs? I love Vivaldi for 6 or 7 years but I'm about to switch because it's becoming unbearable :( Cf: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/86466/duplicate-tabs/52
on Aug 29
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 2 images Never thought to try reverse wireless charging an electric toothbrush...but it might actually work lol. Also neat: Just found out you can use the cover screen of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 while you're wirelessly charging another device!
on Aug 24
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Do Not Disturb mode is being supercharged in Android 15 Google is preparing to bring back Priority Modes in Android 15, and they're much more customizable than DND mode. Full details and screenshots can be found in my latest article for Android...
on Aug 23
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Zach Klipp (he/him) 🥥🌻🇵🇸 (@zachklipp@androiddev.social)
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TIL about a new Square tool, Stoic, by @tcm. It's blowing my mind a bit, seems extremely powerful. Basically lets you write your own little debug apps that get injected into your android process 🤯 https://github.com/square/stoic #AndroidDev
on Aug 16
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image The Google Play Store is starting to give users the option of whether they want to update an app installed from another source (ie. apps they sideloaded). User Ayan on Telegram noticed this new "update from Play" button while they were on a listing for an app they sideloaded...
on Aug 13
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Zach Klipp (he/him) 🥥🌻🇵🇸 (@zachklipp@androiddev.social)
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Huh, funny, “a level of safety risk, including extreme threats to the health and welfare of those trapped, that we as a society cannot ignore or allow” is, IIRC, just what the protest was...
on Aug 10
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Zach Klipp (he/him)🌻 🇵🇸 (@zachklipp@androiddev.social)
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I know a lot of American white dudes follow me. There’s an organizing call tomorrow. Pete Buttigieg (and I think Mark Hamill?!!) will be there. http://bit.ly/whitedudesforharris #Harris24
on Jul 29
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Zach Klipp (he/him)🌻 🇵🇸 (@zachklipp@androiddev.social)
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One of the nice things about not being burnt out is having the energy to fuck around with things like GarageBand. I suck at music but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. https://soundcloud.com/elzachster/ho-hey-cover
on Jul 28
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 2 images Navigating with Google Maps on the cover screen of the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 is awesome! It's great not having to unfold the device to see directions. The phone is really compact when folded, so it's easy to hold in your palm while walking with Maps open. A shame it's...
on Jul 11
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 2 images Heads up to any Android developers with apps on Google Play: Google Play's annual target API level ratcheting is coming up. By August 31, 2024: Mobile/Android Auto: New apps and app updates must target Android 14 (API level 34). Existing apps have to target Android 13 (API...
on Jul 5
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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PSA for users with a Pixel 6, 6 Pro, or 6A: Factory resetting your phone seems to trigger a bug that results in your phone (soft) bricking itself. A member of the Pixel support forums' product expert program says that Google is aware of the issue and is investigating. Via The Verge:...
on Jul 1
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Benjamin Monjoie :verified: (@Xzan@androiddev.social)
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#P1S #BambuLab #3dprinting printers seem to have issues; Bambu Lab is actively trying to identify the bug. The solution seems to put the printer in LAN-only mode for now: https://www.allaboutbambu.com/2024/06/27/some-bambu-lab-printers-seem-to-reset-or-stop-during-prints/
on Jun 28
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Sven Jacobs :androidHead: (@svenjacobs@androiddev.social)
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When doing remote work in my office room I usually have my 4K monitor as my main screen and the #MacBook display as a 2nd screen. However when working somewhere else, I only have the MacBook screen. The #notch can be a bit annoying as it hides some menu bar icons. I found this neat little...
on Jun 26
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image If, instead of Chrome OS, you want to run Debian in a VM on your Pixel device, Google now has instructions on how to do that too. Also, Google is working on enabling network support in the VM out of the box. Audio support, including microphone input, are also being worked...
on Jun 26
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image I had a feeling iOS 18's tinted icons feature would push some mobile dev teams to also add support for Android's themed icons feature. After all, properly supporting these features involves supplying a grayscale or monochrome version of the icon that the system then tints.
on Jun 24
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Mark Murphy (@commonsguy@androiddev.social)
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Let's pour one out for Big Nerd Ranch's bootcamps and books: https://commonsware.com/blog/2024/06/11/requiem-for-ranch.html
on Jun 24
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Marco Gomiero (@marcogom@androiddev.social)
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Attached: 1 image TIL that the Apple Watch Series 4 (and onwards till the series 8) is based on a custom 64-bit ARMv8 architecture with 32-bit integers, long, and pointers. And that target on KMP is watchosArm64. 💡 I discovered it when adding more Apple targets on RSS-Parser! I guess I will...
on May 27