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This post explains how to treat a session with a local AI agent as a pair programming session, and how the four classic pairing styles map onto working with one.

Like every year, I binge-watched I/O.

Google just published a set of Android skills a collection of expert, AI-optimised instructions covering the most common and painful Android development workflows.

Forget just installing Android Studio and calling it a day.

Tired of fixing endless linting errors?

The intro before the intro.

The forEach loop, are you using it without thinking?

This post gets you started with the new Gemma 3 model for on-device inference.

This blog post explains how to create Room DAOs specifically for your Android debug build.

When introducing 3rd party libraries (like BugSee), often their configuration is dumped into your build.gradle/application:onCreate and mixed with everything else.

Learn how to have runtime control of all parts of an animation or image, the color, opacity, scale, rotation .. any property within your SVG animation using Lottie Dynamic Properties.

This artical is a quick introduction into setting up the Gemini API client SDK on Android to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on images.

Wanting to use the latest versions of Compose, but your app compileSdk is falling behind?

The correct, complete, 2024, settings to configure the Java version in Gradle for Android.

This post explains how you can inject dependencies into Android legacy singletons, or any classes that aren’t conforming to your current Android architecture, using Dagger & Hilt.

I wanted to brighten the screen, but all articles said you needed Android permissions.

Quick blog posting showing you the build.gradle.kts version of the default build.gradle file from the “empty activity” Android Studio template.

Learn the steps needed in a typical Android take home test.

This post aims to demystify some of the steps in a typical Android interview process.

This post shows you how to wrap a 3rd party Gradle plugin in your own plugin, so that you can interactive with it programmatically.