Saurabh Arora

Using Graphite's MCP has really changed my workflow with Claude Code. Now instead of lining up prompts for each "commit" of the feature, I can ask it to build the entire feature and present the plan for stacked diffs 🚀

Emulator snapshots are great for Database migration. Moving from version 2 to 3 and you get a crash during dev?

Boot up the version 2 snapshot, make changes and try again; Instead of cleaning cache as then you'll miss the update flow

How is the Android ecosystem changing? The tags in the @droidcon.bsky.social London CfP submissions paint a very interesting picture!

(bars represent actual counts, so both years are on the same scale)

Some quick analysis in follow-ups

Curious case of missing Bottom Sheet Previews While working on a Jetpack Compose project, I noticed my modal bottom sheet wasn’t appearing in Android Studio previews. I could preview the sheet’s contents by extracting them into a separate composable,...

Blogged: why Jetpack Compose bottom sheets don't show in Android Studio previews and how to fix them saurabharora.dev/posts/curiou...

#AndroidDev

At Google IO @lojanda.bsky.social mentioned that Compose 1.9 eliminates nearly all jank in their internal benchmarks. And I kid you not, the alpha release is blazing fast. You don't need a benchmark to tell you that. You can just feel the difference. Kudos to the team

Are you saying it's not normal?

Gemini consistently messes up the year for all my calendar appointments. Even if no year is specified, it adds them to 2026 🤦🏻‍♂️

Ah I see I see. So both are right in their own way. Might be good to have that in your post?

Definitely need to try this out. It should compare referentially unless it depends on the underlying List implementation (operator overloading?) or compose compiler has special handling for Lists

"Referential equality returns true if the List reference is the same; it does not care about its content"

Is this true? I need to try this out myself. Your post & Google's official post say different things

Their post says it calls equals on every item in the list. medium.com/androiddevel...

Woman Whose Last Name Is "Null" Keeps Running Into Trouble With Computer Systems To this day, the last name "Null" totally flummoxes computer systems, much to the chagrin of Nulls everywhere,

Oh lord! What have we done 😂😂

futurism.com/null-name-tr...

Wasted 4 hours fighting with inline images in a Compose Text. Followed documentation excatly and still didn't work. Turn out there is a known bug, open since 2013. These little things with Compose can sometimes be extremely infuriating #AndroidDev

And these are the two countries I extremely frequently travel too!

Google Wallet apps are an absolute mess. In US they need you to use Google Wallet but outside US, they want you to use Google Pay. If you travel overseas, you can't access cards in Google wallet and can't sign up for Google Pay (need a local wallet). Who the hell is taking decisions at Google.

Recently I was working on shared element transition for an image and that was another use case to remove ripple. The ripple overlay while the transition was ongoing wasn't nice

You'll stop receiving these emails on about 7 days (read as: We are buying time so you forget that you had unsubscribed from us. Rinse and repeat)

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description

I am already bracing for merge conflict hell

It's framework B is scaling better for us than Framework A so rip out A

People coming back from holidays are really going to hate me

When did "Actions on Save" became a thing in Android Studio??? This is awesome! I was using a macro before, this is way more simple to setup.

#androidev

Woah

This is excatly what I am doing for my side project. Choose the right stack but not setup the framework yet.

This wedding season, the show stopper has been my Meta RayBan glasses. The photo and video quality is top notch. Though it also meant, I am rarely in any photos 😂

The more time I spend in India, the more I feel Meta will win the consumer race. Your average Joe here has no clue about Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

Putting bias aside is a hallmark of a good engineer 😂

We are experimenting with both and haven't settled on one yet

Post media was recomposed because the click lambda it had, that was changed (same as the event lambda). To avoid this, you would want to key by post id, thereby overriding the default behaviour of strong skipping 2/2

Yeah so the compiler will key the lambda with the values captured by the lambda. So if the lambda captures a post object, when you react on a post, a new post item will be emitted (as likes count was updated), invaliding the remembered lambda, causing a recomposition of, let's say post media. 1/2

That's only with strong skipping enabled AFAIK? Else you'll need to call remember yourself?