Fellow Android developers using Google Play, how is your edge-to-edge refactoring summer going?
I'm mostly done but FOSDEM Companion will have to wait until next year.
#AndroidDev

Recent updates to the official Tomorrowland app bring a number of major improvements to the app. Right on time for the Tomorrowland 2025 festival in Belgium!

https://www.norio.be/blog/tomorrowland-17.html

Performance boost alert!

We tracked down a sneaky issue where Android’s WebView loadUrl would choke on large strings (looking at you, base64 tiles ).

This fix is now live in Collabora Office 25.04.2 for Android — grab it from the app store and enjoy documents that load like a dream.

Read the full story behind the fix: https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/fixing-a-critical-loadurl-performance-issue-under-android/?utm_campaign=Blog&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_content=Android

Inter is such a great font for mobile development: it’s quite close to Roboto, so they look good together and Roboto basically becomes a condensed Inter.

And it’s even closer to SF Pro, although a bit more spacious, which makes it great for long body texts on iOS, where SF Pro can feel a bit too interface'ish.

And it supports Cyrillic!
https://rsms.me/inter/

Sometimes my deadline comes with its own trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViQ6JDoZ-t4

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/15/behavior-changes-15#window-insets

The TL;DR of these changes is "the marketing gimmicks of _immersive experiences_ decided it is now the app devs' responsibility to only draw app content where it won't conflict with system UI or the extremely fun development that is cameras and sensors cut out from the screen.

If I'm making an app that benefits from being "immersive", that's cool. For everything else it's a massive pain in the ass to not just be presented with a safe rectangular area.

Did you know that you can zoom Compose previews in Android Studio by holding the ⌘-Key and scrolling?

This is really useful!

Whether you need a flagship, mid-range, or budget phone, this buyer's guide can help you discover which Android phone is right for you.

https://teknofixitsolutions.com/need-a-new-phone-android-phone-buyers-guide

Here's what's new on Android:

Add custom icons, mute chats, and see which friends have RCS enabled.

Talk with Gemini about anything you see through your camera or screen.

Leaked hands-on shots of the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 7.

ein neues Update ist draußen. Enthalten ist das Spiel mit dem Affen und den Bananen

https://www.mazeblog.de/apps-math-practice.php

My weekend project:

️️️️️ FivestaRSS: a small service that pulls your app’s reviews from the App Store and Google Play into an RSS feed.

You can then connect the feed to Slack, Discord, or anywhere else that supports RSS.

Easy to deploy: no database needed, just a simple XML file as persistent storage per app.

https://github.com/QotoQot/FivestaRSS

Google Play Store preps a small but welcome UI change

New account switcher UI.

Screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-account-switcher-apk-teardown-3572450/

# Pachli 2.14.0 is released

## New features

- Restore the user's position in lists
- Faster account switching
- An "Account Management" UI

## Fixes include

- Delete cached notifications when deleting server notifications
- Don't crash on severed relationship notifications or when cancelling image loads

## Translations

- Chinese, Estonian, Finnish, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Tamil

More at https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/06/30/2.14.0-release.html

A friend is building an app to help immigrants detained by ICE.

It's a web app currently, but is intended to be a mobile app.

Anyone have experience building and deploying mobile apps and interested in volunteering time to help a new app with a good cause?

Feel free to share with others or boost for reach.

Editing to link to the current repository:
https://github.com/habeas-project/habeas

DM me for a Signal username you can use or contact the email at the bottom of the README file.

If you're an #androiddev or #iosdev and want to be interviewed by the EU as part of https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/c7161c9d-9db5-c881-5f50-7faab4af7387 send me a DM, and I'll pass on the interviewers' e-mail addresses (they've asked me to do this).

After all the effort involved in learning Android and then building each UI twice, now I can simply copy the iOS UI code, type “do the same on Android,” and often it just works instantly

Truly cross-platform development may see a renaissance with LLMs. Not just .NET, but for all portable languages like Rust, and maybe even Kotlin Multiplatform if JetBrains puts more effort in promoting it.

I published a new article on Live Update #Notifications in Android 16!
Learn how to build real-time notifications using FCM + ProgressStyle - no backend required. Perfect for tracking, workouts & more.

Read here:
https://medium.com/@nicosnicolaou/implementing-live-update-notifications-in-android-16-7c962ec6c373

Going to be interviewed by the #EU next week as part of their review of #mobile App Stores from #Google, #Apple and others.

If you're an #androiddev or #iosdev and want your opinion to be heard then fill out the survey at https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/c7161c9d-9db5-c881-5f50-7faab4af7387.

If you're a user of their #appstore and have opinions to share there's a user-focused survey at https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/b26da086-b942-499d-9e99-bac3bf4fc3bc.