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Developer Relations // Code crocodile 🐊, user-interface unicorn 🦄, layout leopard 🐆, hacking hedgehog 🦔, kotlin kiwi 🥝

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    Apr 26

    We just released 2.0 alpha 5, with many improvements, bugfixes and new features. Check it out!

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    Apr 25

    Hello Dark Mode! ☀️🌚 >$ /Applications/Google\ Chrome\ \ Chrome\ Canary --enable-blink-features=MediaQueryPrefersColorScheme Version 76.0.3776.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)

    Dark mode active
    Light mode active
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  3. Apr 25

    I 🖤 the illustration that created for dark themes and DayNight. Can I have it on a t-shirt please? 😃

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  4. Apr 23

    For anyone interested in how this is done, see here 👇

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    This animation by 😱
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  5. Apr 21

    I suppose there are worse places to be writing my slides

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    Apr 16

    In this post, shows you how to make WindowInsets drawing behind the system-ui a breeze! 🌬️ Read here →

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  7. Apr 13

    Anyone know of a Kotlin Coroutines version of Go's singleflight? I'm looking for a nice way to de-dupe ongoing network calls, and it seems to be a super nice abstraction.

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  8. Apr 11

    I've currently got a few blog posts lined up to be released, which has gotten me thinking where to actually post them... ✍️ As a (potential) reader, do you prefer:

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  9. Apr 9

    I'm especially impressed with its Deploy Preview feature. Being able to see staged versions of PRs works super well for reviews 🔥

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  10. Apr 9

    Just switched my personal website to be built and hosted on . Really impressed so far. 💯 If you're looking setup a personal site/blog, using a combo of: Jekyll/Hugo, Netlify and a GitHub repo is a great place to get started. 💫

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  11. Apr 5

    Excellent overview 💯 of a subject which developers really need to know about. Starting right from the beginning will help you in so many ways, including dark themes. ⚫⚪

    Thanks for coming to my talk at , here are the updated slides 💃
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  12. Apr 1

    Super cool ✨ Another 'free' optimisation you get by simply uploading via App Bundle. No brainer in my mind.

    We launched a new start up time optimization feature for Android Pie and up: ART optimizing profiles in Play Cloud! Read here ↓
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  13. Mar 27

    That moment when I find out , Rohan and I are speaking on the Amphitheatre stage at

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  14. Mar 26

    It's that time of year where I have 's excellent code highlighter for slides opened in a permanent tab 🌈. If you haven't used it before, make sure you try it out.

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  15. Mar 21

    If you're using or on a HiDPI/Retina display, make sure to turn off text antialiasing. It's turned on by default, but you don't need it. ✨ Preferences ➡️ Appearance ➡️ Antialiasing

    No-antialiasing 😎
    Subpixel antialiasing (default). Yuck 🤮
    Settings (turn off both)
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  16. Mar 16

    It's absolutely chucking it down here in Sydney 🌧 (my kitchen is literally flooded). I was hoping that it would be the same in Melbourne for but no luck

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  17. Mar 13

    Just updated my DayNight article with today's AppCompat DayNight update. Now also includes the recommended settings to display, with strings ⚫⚪

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  18. Mar 13

    Oh and you can finally now set a Toolbar's menu from XML 😎

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  19. Mar 13

    📣 AppCompat v1.1.0-alpha03 is out This is a big release, especially for DayNight: 🖼️ Resource loading has been split out 🛑 Deprecated MODE_NIGHT_AUTO 🔋Added MODE_NIGHT_AUTO_BATTERY 🐛 Many bugfixes, including the infamous WebView incompatibility

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  20. Mar 13

    📣 Introducing Android Q Beta 1

    First beta of many, and lots more to share over the next several months. The name thou'? Quite a quagmiry quandary.
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