mateherber.bsky.social
@mateherber.bsky.social
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This continues to sound like an absolutely awful time.

The changes give Google unreasonable control over all Android devices and brings everyone closer to the locked down Apple experience.

The current Play verifications and warnings for untrusted sources should be enough.
👋 We know there's been a lot of conversation about developer verification. We hear you!

Developer feedback is essential as we build this process. We announced this requirement with a long lead time so you have plenty of time to ask questions, provide feedback, and get ready for
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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There's no good reason why people distributing apps outside the Play Store should need to provide their personal data to Google.

This is just taking Android into the horrible world of dev accounts and notarization that Apple enforces.
August 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This should be pinned to every Dev's and managers desktop
For every dev who thinks "I could build this $30/month SaaS myself instead of paying for it" - the best thing you can do IS to build it!

You learn

1. How much work it is (just for the base case)

2. Edge cases the SaaS silently takes care of

3. The cost (+pain!) of maintenance
May 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Metro 0.3.0 is here and its a big one!

✨ Long-awaited support for @ContributesGraphExtension
🚅 Rewritten internal binding graph impl that's more accurate & runs in O(V+E) time
🆕 New compile-time-validated asContribution() intrinsic
🐛 Tons of fixes and minor improvements

github.com/ZacSweers/me...
Release 0.3.0 · ZacSweers/metro
New: Add support for @ContributesGraphExtension! See the docs for more info. New: Add a asContribution() compiler intrinsic to upcast graphs to expected contribution types. For example: val contrib...
github.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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App Platform Launched

App Platform is a lightweight application framework for state and memory management suitable for Kotlin Multiplatform projects. I'm happy to announce that we open-sourced the project today!

amzn.github.io/app-platform/
App Platform
A lightweight application framework for state and memory management suitable for Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
amzn.github.io
April 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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A palette cleanser for your timeline today: Introducing Metro!

Metro is a compiler-plugin-based dependency injection framework that draws heavy inspiration from Dagger, Anvil, & Kotlin-Inject.

www.zacsweers.dev/introducing-...
Introducing Metro
I'm excited to share something new I've been working on the past few months!
www.zacsweers.dev
April 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM