Really nice episode on the history of Kotlin and the future of programming languages by Andrey Breslav & @pragmaticengineer.com pca.st/episode/8d6081d6-3419-4e...

Please do it 🥺. I was listening to the XR episode and I really like how you ask questions.
Maybe it can be around "Chet learns things", a random topic every episode with some "expert". Tech / non tech, mixed with comedy. It would be fun to listen!

Time to start ChetCast!

We had the goodbye dinner last night and the cake was me, eaten by the team. I'm not sure what message was sent but i certainly enjoyed it.
Apparently you can have your own cake and eat it too! (3rd photo is the original)

Yesterday was my last day at Google.
What started as a 2-year Green Card journey became 11 amazing years & meeting incredible people.
So many great memories from creating Jetpack to adopting Kotlin.
10/10, would do it again.
It is time to move on though, try new challenges and learn new stuff!

​​Kotlin Multiplatform: Have your code and eat it too YouTube video by Android Developers

We have a new episode of the ADB podcast up, this time covering KMP -- Kotlin multiplatform. Yigit Boyar (@yboyar.bsky.social), Dustin Lam and I discuss library support, developer experience and a lot more. I found it fascinating, but Yigit's dog fell asleep...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7O...

Dog laying on a Google dog bed, using a kotlin mascot as a pillow.

My life, depicted by Frida 🥰

The top of the Android logo (bugdroid head) with 4 feathers from the SQLite logo

1 thread running SQL inserts while 4 threads run SQL selects

New blog post: Parallelism with Android SQLite

blog.p-y.wtf/parallelism-...

What started an ANR investigation ended up with a deep dive into Android SQLite's connection pool...

#AndroidDev

The Android UI & Jetpack Compose team is building a new team in Bengaluru!
Join us in building exciting new APIs for Jetpack Compose as well as the other UI libraries and help us expand to Bengaluru.

EM: goo.gle/4gt9dMl
SWE: goo.gle/4dQb9w7
PM: goo.gle/compose-pm-in
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Unfortunately no.
We've experimented with it so it is definitely on our radar. But given the userbase, we've decided it is better to cut the 2.7 with existing platforms and consider the web as a follow-up. 2.7 is already a very big release 🤷‍♂️

I try to pack light when possible to travel with a carry on and avoid baggage claim stress.

And guess which genius forgot his carry on luggage on the plane 🤦‍♂️

Reddit improved app startup speed by over 50% using Baseline Profiles and R8 Reddit implemented Baseline Profiles, R8 full mode, and Jetpack Compose, seeing faster startup times, smoother scrolling, and improved user experience

All stars point to improving app performance this season. 🌟
Let Reddit's big Ws show you the way.
android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/12/redd...

If you are looking for an interesting movie, try Conclave g.co/kgs/yLdrejt.
It is fun, stressful and twisty.

I'm trying to restart using bluesky since the Android community seems to have moved here but getting a lot of allergies due to the default app quality.
Which client are people using on Android?