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Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app
Posted by Chiara Chiappini, Developer Relation Engineer, Android Developer Relations One-handed gestures offer a convenient and touch-free way for users to interact with their watches, enabling them to perform key act…
What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release
Posted by Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Jetpack Compose Today, the Jetpack Compose August ‘26 release is stable! This release brings version 1.12 across core Compose modules (see the full BOM mapping), introducing r…
Media3 1.11 - What's new?
Posted by Toni Heidenreich, Software Engineer, Android Media3 1.11 is out. Powering the vast majority of top Android media apps, this release brings new features, bug fixes, and improvements across playback, editing,…
Inside Android Skills - Built for deprecation
Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations We released the official Android Skills in April, and the response surpassed all our expectations. In this blog post, I'll address some …
Delivering safer, age-appropriate experiences on Google Play
Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play Providing a safe online experience and protecting users from harm is a top priority at Google Play. We take this responsibility seriously and have been inve…
Obfuscated Rhythm Games
I’ve been a rhythm game fiend since my introduction to Dance Dance Revolution in the early 2000s. I spent years obsessed with DDR, took a detour into Beatmania, then played Guitar Hero / Rock Band nonstop for years. I ha…
How to use Jest mocks
For better or worse, my life has become infested by Jest mocks. I come from the land of dependency injection (I even gave a talk once!), but whenever I talk about dependency injection to JavaScript developers I get this …
What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
This is a writeup of a talk I gave at Minnebar 20. Originally, I threw in some Matrix references to make the talk more fun & engaging. Those jokes work better in person, so I’ve mostly omitted the Matrix from this writeu…
310 - Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow
Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp, built some of the most impressive DevOps tools like Vagrant and Terraform, sold the company to IBM — and then built a terminal. Ghostty is now where a huge chunk of agentic coding…
309 - Background Agents
Andrej Karpathy says the goal is to maximize how long an agent runs without your intervention. But there's a false summit most teams hit first: individual speed goes up while system speed stalls, your laptop roars under …
308 - How Image Diffusion Models Work - the 20 minute explainer
You already know how LLMs work from our popular 20-minute explainer. Now we take it to images. What does Michelangelo have to do with stable diffusion? More than you'd think. Walk away knowing how image generation actual…
307 - Harness Engineering - the hard part of AI coding
The hard part of AI coding isn't generating code — it's controlling quality, safety, and drift. Kaushik and Iury break down harness engineering: the five pillars for shaping an agent's environment and what it looks like …
306 - Keeping your agent instructions in sync and effective
AGENTS.md is becoming the common language for AI coding tools, but keeping repo Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com. Show Notes The sync problem AGENTS.md - Official spec Custom instructions with AGENTS.md - Keep you…
305 - Subagents explained - What they are, when (not) to spawn them
Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminology, unpack plan mode vs subagents, and explain how parallel, scoped workers imp…
Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices
Journalists, I beg of you: please stop confusing unsold eBay listings for actual sales. I’m ticked off after seeing this Patch post about NYC MetroCards selling for $5,000 and this WSJ article about Trader Joe’s totes go…
Now In Android #123
Hacking Displate (For Fun!)
During the pandemic my weird vice/obsession became Displates (metal wall art hung up by magnets): Some of my Displates (along with other tchotchkes in my office) For me, part of the hobby was poking holes in their websit…
Now in Android #121
Now in Android #120
Now in Android #119
Now in Android #118 — Google I/O 2025 Part II
A product manager’s guide to adapting Android apps across devices
Coroutines and Dispatchers
Introducing Trio | Part III
Introducing Trio | Part II
Introducing Trio | Part I
Making Airbnb’s Android app more accessible
Airbnb’s Page Performance Score on Android
