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Software Engineer at Google working on the Android Toolkit team.
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Okay, I'm never building a calculator app. chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Been working on a new experimental Kotlin Multiplatform Tracing library capable of emitting Perfetto compatible traces. Currently supporting Android and JVM with the goal of eventually supporting other platforms. Here is the README if you want to try it out. github.com/androidx/and...

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

The Android UI & Jetpack Compose team is building a new team in Bengaluru! Join us in building exciting new APIs for Jetpack Compose as well as the other UI libraries and help us expand to Bengaluru. EM: goo.gle/4gt9dMl SWE: goo.gle/4dQb9w7 PM: goo.gle/compose-pm-in DevRel: goo.gle/3DE8B7T

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

That feeling when you solve a problem using Coroutines Intrinsics 😍. Can you introduce subtle bugs that corrupt the Coroutines state machinery ? Absolutely. But, when things work it feels pretty great. I still find it funny that Intellij downright refuses to add imports for them automatically.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

This is so true. You build so much tenacity chasing random rabbit holes that soon it becomes second nature. Soon everyone thinks you are a wizard but it's all just hard work.

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

A new blog post about a contribution I made to Wire (github.com/square/wire) recently. rahulrav.com/blog/mutable...

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

Who needs Advent of code when one can rewrite all those style sheets that used Material Design 2 in the process of rebuilding their blog. 😭 At least it looks nicer now I think. (rahulrav.com/blog)

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

Android XR was unveiled today! You can download the preview SDK today and start using the Compose and Material Design APIs. I'm also excited that Filament (github.com/google/filam...) powers the experience. developer.android.com/develop/xr

submitted 163 days ago • 2 comments

Today marks the ten year anniversary for Android Studio! 🎉 We released version 1.0 on the morning of December 8th 2014: android-developers.googleblog.com/2014/12/andr...

submitted 167 days ago • 14 comments

Advent of code - Day 2: The stdlib API I wish I knew existed for a brute force solution (kotlinlang.org/api/core/kot...).

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

In case you are looking for folks working on Android at Google, here is your starter pack go.bsky.app/Qo41HVG

submitted 174 days ago • 5 comments

🎇 After announcing project 'firework' aka. #compose #hotreload, I promised to document the journey. This video will explain the first attempt at implementing Hot Reload: ClassLoaders (why it is great, but not the currently used approach) youtu.be/whUy3JfOX9w

submitted 175 days ago • 1 comment

The latest episode of ADB is out! @tornorbye.bsky.social and I had a chat with Shai Barack about system health and performance tools, including Compiler Explorer from @matt.godbolt.org. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXW...

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment

Let me introduce myself. Hi I am Rahul 👋. I work on the Android Toolkit team at Google. I have worked on libraries like: 👷WorkManager - Background processing on Android. 🔘Jetpack App Startup

submitted 183 days ago • 2 comments