We moved to Akron, Ohio! Excited to start this new chapter.

“My warmest wishes to you Joyce. I can’t follow your banner any more than you can follow mine. But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong.”

• H.G. Wells

If you want to start building strength, I can’t recommend Strong Lifts enough. It’s not exactly what I do now, but it’s what got me into building strength and something I would recommend to anyone.

Today is my first day at Livefront!

It’s these two. These two stupid imports. Android Studio currently struggles with auto-importing these functions when trying to do property delegation with the by keyword for State objects.

import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue

Of course you only need getValue if you’re dealing with a val, but dropping them both for my future copy-pasting. If you know of a better way to automatically get these things imported on the fly, let me know!

A few Android sessions to check out from I/O 2025:

• What’s new in Android did a good job at an overview of what was coming to Compose. Including some cool new libraries like Navigation 3 and Media 3.
• Android notifications and Live Updates promises to tell us how to implement Live Updates, a feature like iOS’s Live Activities.
• Android accessibility updates is an every-year must watch, and there’s a special session for Jetpack Compose accessibility.
• Build next-level UX with Material 3 Expressive promises to let us build our apps to align to the new Material design language.
• Gemini Nano on Android: Building with on-device gen AI excites me, because anything on-device is extremely appealing to me as a native dev looking to hack together something fun.

Honestly there looks to be a ton of fun stuff in the Android focus area!

I read about the reincarnation of Pebble today. I immediately dug out my Pebble Time and plugged it in. Hit with a wave of nostalgia as I watched the adorable charging animation pop up.

Take me back to 2015

I recently started to learn how to play guitar! Just want to try to learn the basics and be able to play a few licks. So far it’s been super fun! I can play A, D, and E chords 😎.

I deleted my Twitter account.

You can find me on Mastodon @aj on AndroidDev.social. I’m also on BlueSky. But mostly, find me here.