I published a new blog post based on my experience with screenshot testing over the last couple of years.

https://ryanharter.com/blog/2023/10/screenshot-tests-are-manual-tests/

🎊😁 HOLY S**!! WE ARE BACK! 🚀

Tomorrow we will fire up OBS again after weeks of summer break!
Roberto Orgiu from Google is gonna be with us again!

I have a feeling we will talk about screens... foldable... large... on a wall... on a wrist...
SCREENS... SCREENS EVERYWHERE 🤣

🛎️ The wait is over!

Dagger and Hilt KSP processors are now available in the latest release, v2.48!

They are released as alpha, so please, try them out and give us feedback. For more information and docs, check out the release notes: https://github.com/google/dagger/releases/tag/dagger-2.48

I made a new avatar generator for Peertube mascot squid-like characters.. 

You can play with it here:
→ https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2023_peertube-generator/

It's a personal contribution to the Peertube-plugin-livechat (WIP, link to the plugin on the generator page).

#krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpenSource
#peertube #avatar #generator

K2 is easier to try than ever, now including on Android... Try it today!

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/07/try-k2-compiler-in-your-android-projects.html

Giving away free copies of "Programming Android with Kotlin: Achieving Structured Concurrency with Coroutines" - come find me at the JetBrains booth 🤠

#kotlinconf23

Our latest VOD is live! https://youtu.be/l1Ki9JKuMow

We had Marcel Pinto from Google, and we discussed #AndroidPrivacyWeek, we implemented proper notification permissions and waited for Seb to finish his private code-jam while Ivan had guests live on Twitch 🤦🤣

MY BRAIN: We have an appointment later

ME: Okay, I'd like to be productive this morning

MY BRAIN: We'd prefer to wait for the appointment

ME: But I wanted to be productive-

MY BRAIN: Too bad, we are busy waiting for the appointment

Call for Authors:

Continuing in the spirit of an open web, android dev social is now hosting a publication as well

https://blog.androiddev.social (ghost on digital ocean)

We are looking for contributors to kickstart this adventure.

If you are looking for a place to host your writing that isn't medium, consider us as free and public platform for getting things out to your readers.

Let's make 2023 the year our community gets off corporate platforms