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I recently took another look at Google's A2UI and AG-UI.

In late 2025, Anthropic published Effective Harnesses for Long-Running Agents, introducing the concept of a harness — using architectural means to constrain an unstable model into a sustainably running engineering system.

Over the past few years, I have grown into a hands-on Tech Lead Manager (TLM) role.

Getting started with responsive design really comes down to two things: where to put the navigation, and how to arrange content.

Coding agents have knowledge cutoff dates — they tend to hallucinate when dealing with new frameworks or newer API versions.

Metro is a compile-time DI framework for Kotlin Multiplatform, created by Zac Sweers (formerly Android Infra at Slack).

Recently, together with community partners, I built a site called Open AIDoc.

In Android development, we often need to carefully handle the initialization and callbacks of various SDKs, especially when asynchronous operations are involved.

Following our previous exploration of porting Mediapipe's LLM Inference, this article delves into migrating the Object Detection Demo.

By reading this post, you'll learn about: Porting the MediaPipe "LLM Inference" Android demo to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) to support iOS.

The annual Kotlin festival has arrived again.

Having navigated through the Covid-19 pandemic, I believe many of us share a renewed emphasis on the importance of life experiences.

It's been ten years since Google first released Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 0.1 at I/O 2013.

Just finished the KotlinConf 2023 journey, my heart is surging with excitement.

Anyone who has used third-party Gradle plugins in Android development should have encountered this problem: I only want to apply this plugin in certain buildTypes or flavors, but I can't find a suitable way.

App Bundle (.aab) as the officially promoted new delivery format for Android has been around for a while.

"Build Guide" is a series of articles exploring Android build-related topics, covering Gradle, Android Gradle Plugin, Kotlin Script, and other tools, as well as their architectural applications.

It's been nearly a month since Google I/O 2021.

Due to JCenter shutting down, I recently migrated the publishing process of several active open-source projects to MavenCentral.

"Build Guide" is a series of articles exploring Android build-related topics, covering Gradle, Android Gradle Plugin, Kotlin Script, and other tools, as well as their architectural applications.