Crushing C.O.D.E – Blog posts

You know that feeling when your AI agent has read 14 files and still has not touched the one you actually needed?

You prompt an agent and switch tabs.

I caught my coding agent paying flagship prices for a typo fix.

I’ve been using OpenCode a lot lately.

You just gave your AI agent full bash access and watched it run rm -rf on your project directory. 🤡 This isn’t hypothetical.

I was poking around my agent configs the other day and noticed something.

You know how it goes.

Read about how I found a nice privacySensitive() modifier available under SwiftUI and went on to implement it in Jetpack Compose.

Automate the tedious task of uninstalling Android apps from multiple devices using adb.

Want to use your local LLM on your phone?

One of the requirements for an app I was working on, was to have a text field that can be expanded to show more text.

I wanted to have the ripple effect gone from a composable clickable component.

When working with Enum serialization using Moshi, it is important to have fallbacks in case the enum value returned in response is not present in the predefined list of enum values.

Incase you wanted to setup a Follow me on Bluesky or a Share on Bluesky badge in your project’s Readme file or maybe on blog/website, there is a way.

Looking for a private, local AI coding assistant?

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Every few years I upgrade my personal device to the next Android phone in the market.

As an Android Engineer, I have to sign Android apps whenever making a public release.

Have you ever wanted to emphasize some console log output with colors?

Kotlin Synthetics for Views is deprecated!

Once in a while I notice space occupied in my dev machine to be considerable.

Writing documentation is part of almost all developer jobs.

App Privacy Policy Generator is a simple web app to generate a generic privacy policy for your Android/iOS apps.

I have been contributing to the tutorials/infographics/podcasts at Kodeco.com (formerly known as Raywenderlich.com) since 2018.

Executing tasks and processes is pretty common in the Terminal.

TL;DR: I used Google Sheets + Translate + AppScript to build a completely free and robust Automated Android Localization Tool!

This isn’t a click-bait article!

Lifecycle events in Android.

DISCLAIMER: If you consider yourself a beginner, intermediate, expert or a ninja in the Android realm, this secret sauce still applies to you.

It all starts when some android developer tries to figure out a solution to a problem he/she is having while building their “Awesome Android App”.

While working on various projects, there have been times when I have had to implement various gesture-based events.

Most of us are engineers and at the end of the day humans.

Lets face it we all have been there , trying to fiddle with managing our emulators and dev devices.

If I give you the code of an android app and ask you to provide me information regarding the android app like minSdkVersion, targetSdkVersion, permissions, configurations, almost anyone who knows how to code an android app would provide it to me in a few…

Agree or not agree, but on an average consensus pretty much every android dev goes through the loop of Update Dependencies.Code.Repeat. for each of his/her android project.

Ok so you already know how to build your android library and publish it to JCenter/MavenCentral.

If you come from the java world, you would already be knowing about MavenCentral in a big way.

NOTE: Jcenter has been sunset .

I am pretty sure you would agree to the fact that the usual javadoc is not a something everyone likes.

If I were to ask a question to a room filled with android developers “How many of you have been in that place of sheer helplessness and panic when your gradle build fails because of a version conflict in dependencies?”

The world of artifacts and the way they make the life of a developer simpler, fascinates me to a great extent.

Have you ever thought how the central repository works like Maven Central or JCenter?

JACK & JILL are part of the new tool chain for android and in the words of Android Developer Blog they are designed to improve build times and simplify development by reducing dependencies on other tools In case you are curious, JACK stands for Java Andro…