Aurimas Liutikas

A pretty interesting graph https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector

I'll be talking about "Just One More Cache" at Droidcon London 2026. I hope I'll see you there!

developer.android.comBaseline Profiles overview | App quality | Android DevelopersImprove Android app performance with Baseline Profiles. Optimize startup times and reduce jank using AOT compilation.

If you release frequent updates to your Android app (more than every 2 weeks), please set up robust baseline profile pipeline otherwise most of your users will have poor app performance (see developer.android.com/topic/perfor...)

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Aaron HM

@aaronhm.bsky.social

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

The amount of shoulder shrugging when folks give Muse their email and other account access is depressing. "How bad can it be? Meta knows everything already" is such a defeatist take. Especially disappointed by @theverge.com podcast, people trust your opinions.

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✨ New Video on how to create a ribbon modifier in Jetpack Compose that you can add to any Composable www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTA2...

There is something really fantastic when a city has trains to the airport every 4 minutes.

github.comSpeed up subsequent calls to TaskExecutionGraph.hasTask(String) by liutikas · Pull Request #39342 · gradle/gradleFixes #27733 Context On the first call to this method build a hashmap to provide quick lookups for subsequent calls for a tradeoff in memory. This is a huge help for Android ecosystem where AGP cal...

Not every day I get to create a PR to Gradle on an issue found by my team that speeds up the Square Android project by 33% for some benchmarks. github.com/gradle/gradl...

liutikas.netBeautiful Ugly GroovyLet’s say in your build.gradle scripts you want to allow users to set some values from a preset list

A piece of Gradle groovy magic and I am both most proud and ashamed at the same time. www.liutikas.net/2026/09/29/B... #gradle

blog.cloudflare.comSaving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of o...

19 Sept

A neat use of statistics to reduce memory usage, although I have to admit bits of this post are hazy. https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/

19 Sept

Make them angry and keep them with their own kind.

gist.github.comPoor man's lint plugin for JVMPoor man's lint plugin for JVM. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

18 Sept

If you ever wondered what it takes to wire up Android Lint in Gradle, here is what the bare minimum integration looks like: gist.github.com/liutikas/e23...

17 Sept

I wish more apps put effort for this kind of UX polish ❤️

seb@sebastiano.dev

I saw someone doing this in SwiftUI and thought, surely this should be possible in Compose. And probably I can vibe code it in a couple prompt. It was more than a couple, but it sure was vibecodable :) Shared element transitions rock!

17 Sept

It looks like I'm coming to London in December! I'm excited to tell you about even more catching that you could be doing!

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Nicolas Hénin

@nicolashenin.net

17 Sept

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Micah Lee

@micahflee.com

16 Sept

Replying to @micahflee.com

This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.

liutikas.netKotlin Double BindIt is a great idea to give your library consumers maximum possible flexibility. In my post about conservative librarian I suggested to keep your Kotlin langu...

15 Sept

Kotlin's success has made its support of producing binaries only 3 minor versions back too rigid. I wrote a post about it and I would love your input. www.liutikas.net/2026/09/15/K... #kotlin

endler.devWhy I Still Believe in Mentorship | Matthias EndlerOne of the best tips I ever got was from my tab…

13 Sept

It hits you really different when a mentor sees a problem round the corner and helps you develop that sense yourself as well. https://endler.dev/2026/why-i-still-believe-in-mentorship/

github.comautonomousapps - OverviewBuild and tooling engineer. autonomousapps has 96 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

11 Sept

Tony knows his way around infra.

Tony@autonomousapps.bsky.social

I'm available for work. If you manage a Java, Kotlin, or Android project that uses Gradle, let me be your expert! I have over a decade of experience as a build and DevEx engineer, and would love to help you achieve your goals github.com/autonomousapps

10 Sept

This is going to be a monthly occurrence once every site on the Internet is doing age verification 😔 https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/id-verification-giant-idscan-confirms-data-breach-with-more-than-150-million-drivers-licenses-stolen/

nytimes.comCalifornia’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills (Gift Article)Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, the first law of its kind in the nation.

10 Sept

This is a huge step backwards for everyone's privacy on the Internet that will result in leaks just like this https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/technology/californias-governor-gavin-newsom-online-child-safety-bills.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AFE.y2O5.9QMFV9LQz63_&smid=url-share

10 Sept

and don't get me wrong, I think social media apps are largely dopamine casinos, but the fix is to curtail it for everyone, not just force everyone to share their ID to everyone on the Internet.

8 Sept

There is something so incredibly satisfying in reading a well crafted human authored article on a topic the author is passionate about.

youtu.beCasey Muratori – The Root of The Root of All Evil – BSC 2026YouTube video by Better Software Conference

6 Sept

A fun 2+ hour talk on the context of the often misunderstood phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil". Well done @cmuratori.bsky.social https://youtu.be/hpj6r6CjJf8?si=y9A-aJ5bi9e-7qfK

4 Sept

A neat set of memory optimizations that lead to huge savings for Cloudflare DNS https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/

medium.comClosing a Critical Internet Privacy Gap for Billions of Users: Android 17 Rolls Out ECH SupportWhen you launch an app or visit a website, you likely assume your connection is private. In reality, a critical privacy gap remains. Even…

31 Aug

How many alpha releases are too many releases for a library?

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Jesse Wilson

@swank.ca

27 Aug

Android 17’s better HTTPS privacy is rad. I’m proud that OkHttp 5.5 makes it easy to adopt.

liutikas.netCI BreadcrumbsHitting a failure in continuous integration (CI) can be really frustrating, especially if that failure happens in a flaky way. One way to resolve it is to tr...

27 Aug

A post about finding your way through CI failures by leaving yourself breadcrumbs www.liutikas.net/2026/08/26/C... #gradle #build #android

26 Aug

Social media designed to be addictive? definitely not, also here is 16.7B to stop asking questions

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26 Aug

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...

liutikas.netConfiguration Bomb for Eager Task RealizationGradle has been pushing developers to migrate from the eager tasks.create to the lazy tasks.register. The former does the work on task realization despite if...

25 Aug

A short post on how to keep your Gradle tasks lazy. www.liutikas.net/2026/08/25/C... #gradle #build #android

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Rebecca Franks

@riggaroo.dev

24 Aug

👀 Compose 1.13.0-alpha01 introduces a new CapturedAnimatedVisibility composable: It instantly disposes child content on exit, animating a static GraphicsLayer snapshot instead of keeping UI nodes alive. Our testing has shown: ⚡ ~8% faster exits 📉 ~7% fewer recompositions

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19 Aug

Here's a 3D spin animation triggered by a long press, to celebrate the completion of a task. What do you think of it? #shipaton #buildinpublic

15 Aug

Properly and Casualty Insurance companies are making record profit as they continue to blame the environment. I'd love our government to have our back here. https://youtu.be/cr9TQI1mCk8?si=KrdBzAsDVfF9az5h

14 Aug

The steps to get started with debugging Gradle in Android Studio / Intellij are really quite simple. You don't always need to println debug. #gradle #intellij #android

brettcodes.comI'm done using AIWhy I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

13 Aug

``` Upon reflection, I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it. ``` This rings very true https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/

6 Aug

Excited to see @alllex.me and team get Isolated Projects to incubating. Now it is a race to stable!

Alex Semin@alllex.me

Happy to finally bring it to the world! As always, it's only the beginning. There is so much work to do to let your builds avoid doing the work!

3 Aug

I wrote a post about what happens when you press the elephant button in Android Studio. https://www.liutikas.net/2026/08/03/What-Are-You-Syncing-About.html #gradle #intellij #build

youtu.beScott Jenson — How the Desktop UX needs to evolve to keep up with Local-firstYouTube video by Local-First Conf

31 July

Another 🔥-talk by Scott Jenson on things we could change in desktop UX. I especially liked the clipboard-like thing that remembers where that copy came from, I can see myself using it as anchors to jump back to when doing research. https://youtu.be/-IOLRcFC6OY?si=jk5g9Lk1Bbl_Kn0_

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youtu.beThe inside story of Jetpack ComposeYouTube video by Android Developers

29 July

Congrats @androiddevs.bsky.social on 5 years of Compose 🥳 And lots of thanks for the mention, I'm beyond excited ✨🙇‍♂️🙏 android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/five...

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Romain Guy

@romainguy.dev

29 July

We recorded a special episode of Android Developers Backstage to celebrate 5 years of Compose! youtu.be/HEqXwUm6vd0?...

android-developers.googleblog.comCelebrating 5 years of Jetpack ComposeNews and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

29 July

It is hard to believe it has been 5 years since Compose 1.0.0! Amazing to have been a tiny part of this journey. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/five-years-of-jetpack-compose.html

24 July

It is awesome when you find a company really stands behind their word. I bought a PeakDesign backpack in 2016, last week a zipper broke, reached out to them, and they send me a new bag as each bag has a lifetime warranty. That is just awesome! I wish there were more companies like that.

22 July

How about NO @bsky.app ! You really don't need my birthday information to work.

docs.gradle.orgGradle 9.7.0-rc-1 Release NotesWe are excited to announce Gradle 9.7.0-rc-1.

17 July

I am very very excited that Gradle Isolated Projects feature is finally marked as incubating. It is time for folks to try it out and see what breaks :) docs.gradle.org/9.7.0-rc-1/r...

17 July

What really grinds my gears is folks who sign their artifacts, but every release it is a new signing key. WTF!?>!%!

github.blogThe cost of saying yes has changedThe cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.

17 July

"A change is not cheap just because the code was cheap to generate. It’s cheap only if a human can confidently review and own the result." github.blog/engineering/...

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Rahul Ravikumar

@rahulrav.com

15 July

androidx.tracing 2.0.0 is now beta01. Updated documentation is at: developer.android.com/topic/perfor... Release notes is: developer.android.com/jetpack/andr... Happy tracing !

developer.android.comIn-process tracing | App quality | Android DevelopersCapture in-process trace events and manage context propagation for Kotlin coroutines using the low-overhead androidx.tracing library.

youtu.beMoments When Things Go Wrong | Aurimas LiutikasYouTube video by Kotlin by JetBrains

14 July

My talk about the "Moments When Things Go Wrong" is up! It is a tale about debugging various Gradle related issues including race conditions in Kotlin Gradle Plugin. youtu.be/bavxLLEGX4w?... speakerdeck.com/aurimas/mome... #gradle #kotlin #debugging