Being Laid Off In An Agentic World
I've been a professional software developer in the mobile space for around 15 years now. I started in the Android 2.1 / Eclipse / Ant days and iOS Objective-C days pre-ARC on Xcode 4 (if memory servic
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How To Win Friends And Influence Internal Visibility
Intro I recently learned about friendPaths as part of the Kotlin Gradle Plugin while browsing an Android Slack group. From the documentation on friendPaths: "Paths to the output directories of the friend modules whose internal declarations should be ...
Bridging the Gap: Making Jetpack Compose Row Behave Like SwiftUi & Web
If you've ever tried to compare the behavior of Row in Google's Jetpack Compose, HStack in Apple's SwiftUi, and something like display: flex in the web world, you'll see some interesting results. First, let's take a look at how HStack renders two lon...
Debug Drawers and You: Adding A Debug Drawer To Your App
Said another way, how to supercharge your development workflow with a debug drawer. As Android developers, we're constantly looking for ways to streamline our workflow. One often-overlooked tool that
Compose Guard: Detecting Regressions In Jetpack Compose
As Jetpack Compose becomes more widely used across Android (and Multiplatform projects!), detecting regressions via tooling becomes more important to shift left and detect regressions earlier in the d
Adding Custom Messaging In Android Studio On Top of Confusing Gradle Errors Via IntelliJ Plugin
Inspecting Build Errors Via IntelliJ Plugins To Add Friendlier Messaging
Dagger SPI - Adding Custom Graph Validation (with KSP and tests!)
From the Dagger site: The Dagger Service Provider Interface (SPI) is a mechanism to hook into Dagger’s annotation processor and access the same binding graph model that Dagger uses. With the SPI, you
Debouncing Clicks in Compose
I recently needed to add a debouncing operator on my button clicks in a Compose multiplatform project. I thought I'd share my solution in case it was useful to someone else. First, we define an EventP
Adding "Debug" Checks To Your Compose Multiplatform Project: Android, iOS, and Desktop
While working on my recent Compose Multiplatform project, Sync Sphere, which targets iOS, Android, and Desktop, I needed to add some debug checks in my application to perform some different functional
