Dilemma: You have domain concept 'Category'. The UI needs text label + icon. domain/Concept should not have this, so you create extension properties like val Category.label etc, but this is cumbersome for N properties (N>2). You decide to map Category to another class, but now parallel hierarchies.

Could Google keep the library up to date, and let us decide if we want to take the build-time hit? It is tedious downloading and/or importing N-filled (and often) N-outline icons, and maybe re-doing that process each time they are updated.

Google is cutting corners with batteries. Pixel 8/8a are rated 1000 cycles to 80%, but other phones can do 1600 or even 2000 cycles to 80%.

Google cut corners with the Pixel 10 batteries (again) - for safety they will be charge rate and capacity limited over time. Personally I would avoid heat from wireless charging and pamper it with 500mA - 1A wired charger.

www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel...

I am worried about the future of Java on Android. There are far too many niche libraries (e.g., nats) that will not have Kotlin equivalents soon, if ever, and require a modern classpath.

One item on this list still bedevils me: "Do not send events from the ViewModel to the UI." There are 2 schools of thought: (1) "Events in State" (this advice), and (2) to send Events in buffered Channels with Main.immediate dispatcher. I'm still not sure this has been settled.

I'd like to find a replacement for Jetpack Paging3, but I keep using it because it works, and I understand most of its quirks. It doesn't seem like Google is putting any effort into improving it though.

It would be nice if Room supported this

issuetracker.google.com/issues/11748...

One feature I miss from Eclipse was the Package (or Project?) Explorer's "Go Into". The selected node would temporarily become the root and was great for narrowing one's focus to a particular sub-tree. I have not found anything like that in IntelliJ.

playground-android is a nice starter template. Per description, it uses "Makefile with common cli commands". I have been using a similar tool called "just" to accomplish the same. It has a familiar DSL, recursive rules, good ergonomics, and standalone binaries for many platforms.

just.systems

Thanks @p-y.wtf for logcat. Sometimes I use a custom LogcatLogger implementation that forwards messages to github.com/nats-io/nats... ... comes in handy for remote debugging.

It's a shame that androidx.bluetooth developer.android.com/jetpack/andr... hasn't seen an update since 2023, a companion bluetooth-testing package would have been nice.

Very encouraging! I was interested in adding DuckDB to an Android app written in Kotlin. The 'Android Build Instructions' duckdb.org/docs/dev/bui... mention building 'the command line client in the Termux application' ... Are there instructions to build libduckdb with typical Android NDK as well?