Nicolas Roard

You can find some examples in android.googlesource.com/platform/fra...

If you have specific features you think may be missing, tell us! SDUI is a scenario I'm keen on supporting well

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon Navigating the future with Jetpack Navigation 3 - Don Turner | droidcon London 2025

My talk on Navigation 3 from #dcldn25 is live (very impressive publishing from the droidcon team!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Oi...

Here's the slides for our #dcldn25 talk on #RemoteCompose speakerdeck.com/camaelon/dro... Thanks to everyone that attended, it was great to finally share this project :) Kudos to the droidcon organizers, this was a really smooth event, and it was neat to see old friends! @hoford.bsky.social

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon Blazing Fast UI Development with Compose Hot Reload - Márton Braun | droidcon London 2025

pssst. a man of my word the first droidcon London talk is now live! we join @zsmb.co to learn about all things hot reload!

youtu.be/gWlLGfbsHfk?...

#dcldn25

If using Gemini in Android Studio is not your cup of tea, you can now use whatever model you want via API key! Now available in latest canaries developer.android.com/studio/gemin...

Start of the RemoteCompose presentation at droidcon in London #android

Super interesting talk by @camaelon.bsky.social and @hoford.bsky.social!
RemoteCompose looks super powerful

Make sure to stick around at #dcldn25 for the The Android Show LIVE! 🎥 #Android leaders Matthew J. McCullough, Tor Norbye, Clara Bayarri & Jingyu Shi, sharing insider insights on what’s new & what’s next for Android, the latest #dev updates, Gemini demos in @AndroidStudio, & a live #AskAndroid Q&A.

Come see @hoford.bsky.social and I in London next week -- we have some cool stuff to show off :-)

#RemoteCompose: an #AndroidX framework to project rich, animated #UI from apps or servers onto remote surfaces.

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April 15, 2009 is said to have been the day that had the largest number of tea party demonstrations reportedly in more than 750 cities.[73] Estimates of protesters and locations varied. The Christian Science Monitor reported on the difficulties of calculating a cumulative turnout and said some estimates state that over half a million Americans participated in the protests, noting, "experts say the counting itself often becomes politicized as authorities, organizers, and attendees often come up with dramatically different counts."[74][75] Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, estimated that at least 268,000 attended in over 200 cities.[76] Statistician Nate Silver, manager of FiveThirtyEight.com, has said that a cumulative crowd size estimate from credible sources was of 311,460 attendees in 346 cities, which accounted for all capitols and major cities little noticeable or no reliable media coverage in other protests could have contributed to a lower number of attendees and locations.[77] The largest event, in Atlanta, drew between an estimated 7,000 to 15,000 protesters.[77][78][79] Some of the gatherings drew only dozens.[74]

Compare yesterday's millions to this and how we couldn't escape breathless coverage of the Tea Partiers at their peak.

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)?

Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...

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If George Washington himself had done this as President, he would have been impeached, removed, prosecuted, and imprisoned. This was one of the greatest fears of the Framers.

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

The Democrats ran, among other things, on democracy being under threat in the 2024 election and they were clearly right. They should act like they were right, not that they were wrong because they lost at one particular moment in time. Trump considers them an internal enemy, not a minority party

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon Keynote - The Future of Android...And How to Prepare For It | droidcon Berlin 2025

A few of us were asked for our thoughts on the future of Android at @droidcon.bsky.social Berlin.

As you'd expect, lots of AI mentioned.

I tried to have a slightly different take, and sneaked in Remote Compose as a potentiel way for chat to add App UI

youtu.be/CmTSnxCTyIk

#AndroidDev
#dcbln25

YouTube video by droidcon & fluttercon Embracing the Chaos: Investigating Production Madness - Pierre-Yves Ricau | droidcon Berlin 2025

Last week at Droidcon Berlin I talked about some of the wildest Android bugs I've seen

Have you ever debugged a device using a hairdryer?

youtu.be/kOH1Kdj9c1c

#AndroidDev
#dcbln25

Anyone in my tech circle know any companies hiring Junior Engineers for London or UK/EU Remote roles?

My son (22yo) is passionate Rust + Typescript developer, with a couple of years of DevOps experience. It's really hard to get through initial applicant filters. I guess a lot of folk looking also.

SFAM comic from Sept 27 2010, Correlation Loves Causation

Reposting this, no reason

The net effect of Elon buying Twitter and rebuilding the algorithm to constantly spoonfeed people right wing propaganda has been less convincing average people of right wing propaganda and more convincing the entire anglosphere elite class that the average person believes right wing propaganda

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Slouching into fascism Are we already past the tipping point?

This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state.

Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.

Wrote a lot of thoughts on junior developers, AI, and what I strongly feel is going to become the defining challenge of our industry's next generation.

www.zacsweers.dev/forklifts-re...

It's somewhat closer to DPS then DPDF, but there's quite a bit more too (components, animation, path morphing...)

RemoteCompose goes way beyond just serialized draw commands. We don't push business logic, but the docs can still work standalone, have components, animation etc.

What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release The Jetpack Compose 1.9 release introduces features like advanced shadow modifiers, new visibility modifiers, and enhanced rich styling capabilities.

Jetpack Compose 1.9 is out and comes with a lot of great new APIs: outer/inner shadows, new visibility modifiers, a new prefetching behavior to improve scrolling performance in lazy layouts, etc. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what...

I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying into the neoractionary nonsense that maybe a little light fascism is good for silicon valley. It's not. It's very, very bad.

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.

President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.