Saket Narayan

Shipped an expandable header that broke mid-scroll.

unfurl is one of my favorite open source libraries.

Demo showing that Compose Hot Reload (Firework) only invalidates remembered state if you change code affecting the slot table (e.g. changing code inside 'remember {}') — Sebastian Sellmair (@sellmair.dev) 2024-11-19T17:37:50.295Z Sebastian Sellmair from J…

How do you display a 100mb image on Android without running into OutOfMemoryError?

While exploring how text paragraphs are rendered in Compose UI, I nerd sniped myself into porting squiggly underlines from Sam Ruston’s Buzzkill app.

I found an old screen in Cash App today that wasn’t retaining its scroll position across configuration changes.

One of the many things I was constantly amazed about during my first few weeks at Square/Cash App was seeing how fast this team shipped code.

Changing line heights in Android using LineHeightSpan has this ugly side-effect where the cursor ends up being very tall, extending till the full line height instead of just the text height.

While working on a healthcare app called Simple at my previous company, we wanted to improve how nurses follow up with their patients.

An exploratory talk that showcases how Android can deliver a beautiful experience to the user using material design principles and various framework APIs like gestures and spans.

I’ve been trying to write this post for a while, but I kept throwing my words in the bin in hopes that things will improve.

When people use Dank, one of the terms they use to describe it is fluid.

When Google released Inbox for Android some 4 years ago, their UI was rad.

While working on Dank, my primary goal was to ensure that user generated content on Reddit receive as much attention in the app as possible, while letting the UI take a back-seat.

Simple is better than complex.

After spending more than a year, I’m happy to announce that my Reddit app — Dank is finally ready for the world to see.

When Uncommon was brought in to refactor a big legacy app last year, we found ourselves in a strange situation.

One of my favorite parts of RxJava is that no matter how complex a state management usecase is, there’s always an operator for that.

Do you know what’s common between the blinking cursor, hyperlinks and text highlighting in TextViews?

While working on a feature for downloading images in my app, I ran into a strange issue where progress notifications were never reaching 100%.

While going through the codebase of a former client, I found that I was using four different ways for showing HTML on Android.

I’ve been working on implementing bundled notifications in my app, which is by far one of my favourite features about Android 7.0 Nougat.

There are two ways of “linkifying” URLs in a TextView.

Android developers spend a lot of time writing XML layouts every day.