Hossain Khan

Hossain Khan

@hossain.dev

Passionate Android engineer and curious tinkerer. 🇨🇦🍁📱🏞️🍔📸🏖️🎧

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Just saw UI refresh/update from Google Play Console. Who thought it was a good idea to auto expand and collapse without a way to pin the expanded view!? 🤦🏽‍♂️ _(unless I am blind and can't see a way to keep it expanded)_ #GooglePlay #UIUX

Oh great! Firebase Test Lab is going away, so is the daily free quota - which was very useful for casual UI testing 😑 firebase.google.com/docs/test-la... #Firebase #TestLab #Deprecated

Yes, I have joined the recent buzz about checking out the craft apps! 🎨 I am no designer, and have no ability to judge the correctness of these apps. however, the attention to details of crafting these apps is truly admirable! Even the launcher idea and UI looks clean! 💅

Now that Googlebook OS is out, I was checking how an app gets the "Optimized for Desktop" badge. It's definitely not an easy climb 😅 developer.android.com/docs/quality... #AndroidDev #GooglebookOS

Oh, hello Kotlin Toolchain 👋🏽 blog.jetbrains.com/amper/2026/1...

blog.jetbrains.comAmper Is Now the Kotlin Toolchain: Moving to the Kotlin Blog - The JetBrains BlogAmper has evolved into the Kotlin Toolchain. From now on, all news and release announcements will be published on the Kotlin Blog.

I miss GitHub's deep integration with Copilot! 🤖 Using different harness in isolation is not as fun as seeing copilot work directly in PR!

Google Play review cycle time has reduced significantly! Not sure if review time depend on app that is submitted 🤔 However, I will take the gain! thanks :-)

@cloudflare.social I could not find any on-going incident about this - basically I can't login to my account as it fails to validate 2FA. First, it fails on API and then it keeps saying email is worng.

Something definitely was wrong. ✅ It was fixed when I manually logged in again using my auth provider. It didn't ask me to login again and instead was taking me to 2FA screen which was broken.

Mind blown! Amazing tool! colorflow.ls.graphics

colorflow.ls.graphicsColorFlow - Advanced Mesh Gradient Generator & EditorCreate stunning mesh gradients with ColorFlow. Professional gradient editor with real-time preview, customizable control points, and export options.

Create app button in Google Play console is the least visible item! I understand app is not created monthly, or yearly - however it should not be as buried as it is now 👀

Dogfooding my own library is allowing me to find new use-cases and gaps resulting in expanding it's capabilities! This is a short write up on how the streaming support was added and refined later. hossain.dev/posts/syntax... #AndroidDev #SyntaxHighlighting

hossain.devExtending Syntax Highlighting Library to Support Streaming Responses from LLMsExtending the Compose Highlight library to support real-time streaming LLM responses with snapshot span preservation and newline-based highlight triggers.

I have been toying with on-device LLM model based chat interface. Needed to add support for streaming source code highlighting. So, recently added `StreamingSyntaxHighlightedCode` composable to support this use case in latest release. github.com/hossain-khan... #AndroidDev #SyntaxHighlight

github.comReleases · hossain-khan/android-compose-highlightSimple lightweight library that leverages JS bridge to bring fast syntax highlighting to Android Jetpack Compose - hossain-khan/android-compose-highlight

Very happy with how it turned out!

Not sure if #GooglePlay review is taking longer because overall there is backlog or because my app is new! 🤔

I know there are mixed feelings about ADD (agent-driven development), however I seem to enjoy hands free development 👨🏽‍💻 There are a few downsides though - lack of ownership, accomplishment and fulfillment is one of them.

This library intro and demo are pure delight! 🍬 The library demo site is the kind of work I aspire to build! 🤩 chromadial.sinasamaki.com

chromadial.sinasamaki.comChromaDialA customizable circular dial/knob component for Compose Multiplatform.

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Later this week, a new and very special video is coming out on ChromaDial ✨ If you are not caught up, here is my earlier video introducing the library, so that you will be ready for what's coming next ⏱️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DGy...

Still don't understand why BlueSky Android app logs me out randomly every several months 🤔

Finally got hands on the #Pixel11 Really loving the smaller non-XL version! Low light photos are awesomer 😎

I thought macbook air (m5) is rated for all day battery! 🤔 50%+ drop in one hour, I guess Android development was not part of the use-case! 🙈

You know you've worked at a place long enough when renewed corp 💳 credit card arrives! 🙃

Same phone as last year's which I skipped. This year I gave in and looking forward to the #Pixel11 phone! 📱

store.google.comGoogle Pixel 11 ProGoogle Pixel 11 Pro's vapor chamber helps keep your phone running at peak speeds.

MTP proved me wrong over and over again with unreliable connection to transfer Android files from the device. Found this open-source app that uses ADB for file transfer and found it very fast and reliable so far! 👌🏽 github.com/Santosh7017/...

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Saket Narayan@saket.me

AI has made me so productive. I'm now abandoning a new side project every month instead of one a year.

Oh! this is going to be useful for me! 📖

Kotlin by JetBrains@kotlinlang.org

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How did we live over a decade with MTP protocol for #Android devices? Is there anything better by now? 😑

I finally got my #TRMNL-X and it just worked out of the box 🙌🏽 As weird as it may sound, the highlight of the show is the weighted magnetic 🧲 USB-C cable. I don't recall seeing this quality cable bundled with any products. Never giving up on this cable 😆 Kudos to @trmnl.com team for delivering it!

I am having hard time believing there is no way to cleanup this temporary system files without doing factory reset! Constantly trying to delete my pictures gets old pretty soon! Does anyone know cure to this? 😞 #Android #StorageBloat

Looking forward to doing nothing this weekend! 😌

Wow, this is great news for OSS community! 🎉 Also checkout Jake's post on this jakewharton.com/the-lysine-c...

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Commonhaus Foundation@commonhaus.org

🎉 OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and SQLDelight join Commonhaus! www.commonhaus.org/activity/315...

commonhaus.org🎉 OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and SQLDelight join Commonhaus!OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, and SQLDelight join Commonhaus under the lysine.dev banner

New release of Compose Syntax Highlight now has custom dom parser and is up to ~1 ms faster and APK size will be ~100KB+ smaller! 🚀 github.com/hossain-khan... #SyntaxHighlighting #AndroidDev

github.comRelease 0.30.0 · hossain-khan/android-compose-highlightSummary Mostly 🧹 cleanup, reduced external dependency and performance gain, up to 1ms savings in the highlight pipeline 💪🏽 Changed Replaced Jsoup with a custom HTML parser. Sample APK shrinks 128...

O oh! I already uninstalled copilot from every place! Subscriber graph must look like reverse hockey stick 📉 Free you say? 🧐

Looks like I spoke too soon about the Android developer verification process 🥸 When I tried to register my app, the eligible key is not what I use to sign release build anymore! So, the one I use now is not eligible!? 🤦🏽‍♂️ #GooglePlay #AndroidDeveloperVerification

Quick update - the request was approved under 2 days without any input from my side!

I recently learned about Zensical from Zac's Metro project which migrated from MkDocs to zensical.org based site. I also tried to use it for my recent experimental project. Not having full Kotlin syntax highlighting was bothering me, so I applied client side shim to re-highlight using Shiki.

hossain.devBetter Kotlin syntax highlighting on Zensical with Shiki | Hossain's Dev BytesI replaced default Kotlin highlighting on my Zensical site with Shiki for cleaner tokens, better modern syntax support, and smooth light/dark theming.

The missing highlighting for Kotlin is also very subtle. The flipping of highlighted code is negligible unless you are really looking for it. If you know you just know, and if that bothers you, this is not for you! 🙃 At least it makes me happy! 😄 #Zensical #Shiki #SyntaxHighlighting

The recent syntax highlighting experiment on compose worked really well. So, I thought why not use the engine to also add support for simpler editor use-case? 🤔 It did work nicely, once engine is initialized, roundtrip to highlight is under 5-15ms #AndroidDev #SyntaxHighlighting

If you are interested in experimenting with it, here is the GitHub project ^_^ github.com/hossain-khan...

github.comGitHub - hossain-khan/android-compose-highlight: Simple library that leverages JS bridge to bring highlighting to Android Jetpack ComposeSimple library that leverages JS bridge to bring highlighting to Android Jetpack Compose - hossain-khan/android-compose-highlight

Noticed this new banner in the Google Play console today about Android developer verification. I guess this is happening despite real friction in the community.

I gave it for a spin for first time to see what this is about! Added the sample app for the new highlight library and it was OK! #GooglePlay #DeveloperVerfication

Desktop Mode idea on Android is great - however to make great use, need to support better output quality. I am using 4K monitor with 1080p and max size and I see pixeletted icon & images + not so smooth texts. Nevertheless great dev article: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/andr...

Official Kotlin support in VS Code has graduated from experimental to alpha! yay! This is big! Now, Firebase Studio can be great for Android dev ;-) marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... #Kotlin #VSCode

Watching the #KotlinConf keynote during the weekend. This slide made me proud even though I know the app list is in random order! 😆

Wait! what's going on? 45GB of temporary Android OS files? What are those? On device LLM models? Usually gemini nano is under 10GB. #Google can we cleanup these OS files that are not needed anymore please? it's eating up my ~40% space of Pixel. #GooglePixel #Bloat

Yes! 🥲

Adam McNeilly@adammc.bsky.social

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

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Thanks for featuring my new library that supports syntax highlighting for modern compose apps 🙏 It uses old tech in interesting way that modern AI chat apps use today. github.com/hossain-khan... #AndroidDev #SyntaxHighlighting

github.comGitHub - hossain-khan/android-compose-highlight: Simple library that leverages JS bridge to bring highlighting to Android Jetpack ComposeSimple library that leverages JS bridge to bring highlighting to Android Jetpack Compose - hossain-khan/android-compose-highlight

Android Weekly@androidweekly.bsky.social

Latest Android Weekly Issue 727 is out! androidweekly.net/issues/issue... #AndroidDev #Kotlin

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Copilot is definitely out the door with the new changes coming in few weeks. Need to figure out new token provider! 😂 bsky.app/profile/hoss... #GitHub #Copilot #👋🏽

Hossain Khan@hossain.dev

Well well well, it looks like GitHub just dropped the ball on subsidized LLM token usage via Copilot. Now, you have to abide by pay-per-use model, easily costing 2X-10X or even more based on your usage! 💸 Good luck from June 1st! 🙃 #GitHub #Copilot

github.blogGitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billingStarting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.

So, I am looking at 600% to 1200% increase based on per-per-use that matches Claude's current pricing!

This is definitely a welcoming structural change for KMP projects blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/... Wondering if Amper (github.com/JetBrains/am...) would be able to support the same structure! 🤔 #Kotlin #KMP #Amper

blog.jetbrains.comA New Default Project Structure for Kotlin Multiplatform | The Kotlin BlogWe are updating the default project structure for Kotlin Multiplatform projects to give modules clearer responsibilities. Read on for all the details.

As a bonus, if you are looking for KMP + Metro 🚇 then take a look into the KotlinConf app which now uses Metro DI framework. github.com/JetBrains/ko... #Metro #DI

github.comGitHub - JetBrains/kotlinconf-app: The official KotlinConf applicationThe official KotlinConf application. Contribute to JetBrains/kotlinconf-app development by creating an account on GitHub.