Google has made an awesome proposal, subject to court approval, to open up Android in the US Epic v Google case and settle our disputes. It genuinely doubles down on Android's original vision as an open platform to streamline competing store installs globally, reduce service fees for developers on Google Play, and enable third-party in-app and web payments. This is a comprehensive solution, which stands in contrast to Apple’s model of blocking all competing stores and leaving payments as the only vector for competition. The public filings are live.

Cosign. It's interesting to think about what would be different if iOS and Android didn't have these astronomical toll booths for just allowing users the privilege of *installing software* on the pocket computer they bought

It's truly depressing to see the Android org's leadership repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. f-droid.org/en/2025/10/28/si… Users should be able to choose what software they run on the devices they own.

We won! 🏆 🎉 Momental took 1st place in the Kotlin Multiplatform category of RevenueCat’s #shipaton challenge! Huge thanks to @RevenueCat for hosting this challenge that pushes us to grow with amazing new apps. Also to @JetBrains for the incredible Kotlin Multiplatform technology and especially to all of you for your support throughout this journey.

If you're interested about on-device Gen-AI you'll like this one. The plan is to dig into how LLMs actually work and connect the dots to the Android tools that make on‑device inference practical. Also down for a pastel de nata + coffee if you’re around 🇵🇹

Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵

🔥 Published: Putting the Genie in the bottle A hands-on experience with Google's AI Edge SDK running Gemini locally on Android. I've taken a good look at it, and tried to give a balanced take on the good, the bad and what to expect going forward. iurysouza.dev/ai-edge-sdk/

The best part is that this setup works perfectly with my obsdian vault. So I'm basically going to reuse my own references on the blog

Even pulled out a `Frosted Glass` effect! Thanks Sonnet! 🤝

Managed to build a wiki-style reference system (similar to Obsidian) for my blog in a couple of hours You can hover over it (or tap on mobile) to see the content in an overlay window without leaving the article. Expect me to abuse this feature on my next articles xD

🚀 Just pushed a ~complete rewrite of SlidesCodeHighlighter w/ a new syntax highlighting engine (💜 shiki), enabling a wider ranger of 📜languages 📜 and themes 🎨, including the idx.dev themes and others from VS Code. 👉 Try it: romannurik.github.io/SlidesC…

Here's to the OG pod! @donnfelker and @kaushikgopal were amazing all these years. ✌️

If you're interested in more technical details, I'm finishing a follow-up to this piece, where I try to tackle that.

Thank you, @androidweekly, for featuring my article in issue 646! androidweekly.net/issues/iss… Check it out 👇

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Damn, quite a few people joining bsky at once. 👀

Man I love their products, but it's gotta be tough out there competing VScode and Copilot. I bet 99% of new grads are deep in the MS ecosystem. For me this arrived 1 month too late. I'm in that nvim honeymoon now 😅

British folks at 3 am

Just hand him the ballon d'or next Monday! @vinijr

Meanwhile, AI-generated pages are flooding the web every day. Another large portion is hidden behind proprietary gates from Meta, Bytedance, or WeChat. At this rate there's not gonna be much left on the open web.