"We are seeing an additional ~20% improvement in scroll performance"

hell yeah!

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/01/whats-new-in-jetpack-compose-january-24-release.html

We're planning our next steps as the community and need your inputs: https://forms.gle/ctHv5fRcT91RVcQv5

What would amaze you? What inspires you? Where can you learn the best? Whom would you like to learn from and with?

Let us know, we are eager to know what you think.

We’re excited to announce our #Android #Automotive Developer Kit!

We believe that being able to easily iterate and test in a real environment is the key to great software. A lack of access to physical devices makes this too difficult for automotive software. We want to change that!

For more information please visit
https://www.snappautomotive.io/developer-kit

#androiddev

It was awesome to see all of you who joined our last Meetup of the year with the Kotlin User Group Berlin! And special shout out to the 3 amazing speakers as well!
Stay tune for our upcoming events!

https://www.meetup.com/berlindroid/events/289853458

@sovtechfund (funded by the German government) just announced a €1M grant towards the @gnome project, an open source desktop environment.

Imagine a world in which governments don't spend billions of dollars in licensing fees every year to make Microsoft richer, and that money instead goes towards _public code_ that belongs to all of us.

That may seem utterly implausible - but every example like this brings us one step closer to it being inevitable.

https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/

YouTube premium is getting a significant price increase, making it way more expensive than evening the over-priced Netflix. Until now, I've kept YouTube outside our streaming service payment halt rotation (I don't pay for multiple services at the same time anymore). But this price change YT will, unfortunately, have to be included and I'll be paying for it only a few months a year.

These services are driving themselves to the ground.

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/