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Most decisions at work and in life are made under a temporary set of constraints. We accept the world as it is, optimizing within limits that may not even be real. What if we approached decisions like a toddler—ignoring the rules, focusing on what’s possible, and bending reality to fit our goals?
The internet has democratized role models and success stories, enabling "pocket revolutions" where individuals can find inspiration from real people doing extraordinary things
🤔 The padding Modifier and the Spacer composable are both valid ways of adding space to a component. Surely, this must be a mistake. Why else would Jetpack Compose expose two ways of doing the same thing?
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I also write an Android & Jetpack Compose focused newsletter called Dispatch that's read by Android engineers at all the top companies. Think of it like the #1 Doctor recommended source for high quality Android tid-bits.
In today's issue, we talk about 🧐 cheating during interviews, 💸 fully transparent salaries, 🪄 Google's big agentic bet, 🕵🏻♂️ committing a Kotlin crime and 🫨 jittery text animations
In today's issue, we talk about 🥶 chilly mobile hiring trends, the best Kotlin speaking LLMs 🗣️, another project in the Google graveyard 🪦, shadcn/ui for Android ✨ and learn how to trust time ⏰
In today's issue, we talk about 🐦🔥 Swift on Android, learn some mind-boggling facts about naming variables, discuss my recent chat with Kaushik Gopal, and explore how to provide the entire codebase to an LLM.
In today's issue, we talk to some Android experts about their hot-takes, predictions, wishes, and advice on how they expect the Android ecosystem to change—and how developers should prepare for that future.
🤯 some mind bending facts about SQLite, "Monotone Cubic Hermite Spline" and buttery smooth animations, a game to improve our Compose knowledge and why return types in Kotlin can be interesting 🤨
🔥 JetBrains' project to bring true hot reload to Compose, share a tip to improve screenshot test reliability using a new CompositionLocal, explore situations when onDispose doesn't get called, and bid farewell to Picasso 👨🏻🎨
🔤 Learn about Zach Klippenstein, the Android connection to Wordle, creating presentations using Compose, running Android Studio on Android and @ComposableTarget