If your engineering team is 'senior-only' + AI-assisted… where do tomorrow's seniors come from?
New blog post on the 'disappearing middle':
chrisbanes.me/posts/disapp...
Excellent article - thought provoking and eloquently written. Particularly like the checklist for whether to delegate to AI.
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!
What do you want to see in this video?
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...
Thanks for raising this important point. We need to update both Now in Android and Nav3 recipes to do this: github.com/android/nav3...
Now in Android (our main architecture sample) has been migrated to Navigation 3. Full details here: github.com/android/nowi...
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....
Navigation3 is really a turning point for the whole Architecture Components team as we look to work closely with the Compose team and think more holistically about what it takes to build an Android app.
So if you're an ~L4 engineer who wants to help, I'm hiring!
www.google.com/about/career...
There's still a lot of things we have planned for Navigation3 in our 1.1 release and beyond, where each release will be an opportunity for patterns you see in our recipes repository to "graduate" and become (optional) helpers in the library itself.
github.com/android/nav3...
Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉
Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well!
android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...
The ease with which adaptive layouts can be supported when using Nav 3 is so nice! (using list/details "SceneStrategy" in this case)
Using Navigation 3 with Compose Multiplatform #KMP #CMP johnoreilly.dev/posts/naviga...
One of the questions I get asked most about Navigation 3 is "how can I create multiple back stacks?". Now there's a recipe for that: github.com/android/nav3...
My talk on Navigation 3 from #dcldn25 is live (very impressive publishing from the droidcon team!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Oi...
Navigation 3 is a really nice addition to the Compose ecosystem (from talk by @donaldturner.bsky.social at #dcldn25)
Absolutely! And great to catch up with you yesterday, albeit briefly.
+1
This is really cool. It looks like it took the architecture mostly from the modular example here: github.com/android/nav3.... We'll be publishing a Nav2->3 migration guide shortly with the intention that it can be followed by an agent.
Really enjoying this year's Advent of Code - a great way to brush up on my Kotlin skills blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/.... Only problem is new challenges are released at 5am UK time and there's no way I'm getting up then! 🥱
Incredibly useful to learn from, thanks for all your years of hard work 🫡
Hey Maru 👋 Long time no speak! Hope you're well 😀
