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A retrospective on leaving Google after 8.5 years, reflecting on AppCompat, ActionBarSherlock, drawable tinting, DayNight theme support, and the evolution of Android development

I’ve recently been in the market for a new laptop for myself.

Guide to publishing Android libraries to Maven Central after JCenter shutdown, featuring gradle-maven-publish-plugin and automated release strategies

Building a Jamstack blog with Gatsby, Ghost CMS, and Netlify for better content management and global CDN deployment

How the build speed, APK size and source line count changed after migrating the Tivi sample app to Jetpack Compose

Using Material Design Components to implement a dark theme

Creating seamless keyboard animations using WindowInsetAnimation

New WindowInsets APIs for checking the keyboard (IME) visibility and size

Apply coroutines to a real-world TV show details UI problem where InboxRecyclerView expansions require synchronizing data loading, scrolling, and animations through suspending functions instead of nested callbacks

Harness Kotlin coroutines to write complex asynchronous UI operations synchronously, replacing callback-based View APIs like AnimatorListener and View.OnLayoutChangeListener with clean, readable suspending functions