Ahmed El-Helw

I wrote a blog post about 3 different ways to get a MapLibre map rendering on Android Auto - helw.net/2025/11/16/m... #androiddev

From Vim to Zed After around 20 years of using Vim, in December last year I switched to Zed as my main editor.

zed is amazing - this article sold me some time back - registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/from-vim-t...

still haven’t ventured to try the kotlin lsp with it yet though.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says Israel has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide and says they are justified as self defense. It is fighting a case at the International Court of Justice.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says.

There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

wrote a short post about how to use `ComposeView` when you don’t have an `Activity` context - helw.net/2025/08/31/c... #androiddev

Seven common tropes used to deny Gaza’s famine, debunked by an expert www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

GitHub - BeehiveInnovations/zen-mcp-server: The power of Claude Code + [Gemini / OpenAI / Grok / OpenRouter / Ollama / Custom Model / All Of The Above] working as one. The power of Claude Code + [Gemini / OpenAI / Grok / OpenRouter / Ollama / Custom Model / All Of The Above] working as one. - BeehiveInnovations/zen-mcp-server

nice tips! one useful thing i recently started doing is to let Claude Code consult other LLMs in certain cases. i use my friend’s mcp server (github.com/BeehiveInnov...) for code reviews and when debugging tricky issues, sometimes adding Gemini Pro’s knowledge to Claude's.

I spent some time understanding why Android 16 causes numbers in Arabic apps to go from Arabic-Hindi (١،٢،٣) to Latin (1,2,3). I documented my adventures in this blog post about Arabic numbers and regions - helw.net/2025/05/31/a... #androiddev

Targeting Android 35 soon? I wrote up some quick notes that may be useful when implementing edge to edge - helw.net/2025/04/06/q... #androiddev

I wrote a post about something I just learned - One cannot simply share String indices from #kmp with Swift. helw.net/2025/01/19/p... #kotlin #androiddev