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Niall Scott
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An Android contract developer and technology geek living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Creator of MyBusEdinburgh. Remainer. Hello to our European friends.
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Thanks to everyone who came along to my Droidcon London talk. Now it's over, I can relax for the rest of the conference.

Here's a link to the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
Me, Niall Scott, standing in-front of my speaker card for the talk "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates" at Droidcon London 2025.
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Only 2 weeks to go until @droidcon.bsky.social London!

I will be presenting the 20 minute lightening session "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates" on the Dalvik Domain stage at 15:30 on October 30th (1st day).
A speaker card for Niall Scott's talk "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates" at Droidcon London 2025. Niall is a contractor senior Android engineer. This is an intermediate level talk. Droidcon London takes place between October 30th and 31st 2025.
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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I'll be speaking at Droidcon London this year: "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates"

This will be my first conference talk. As such, I'm easing myself in by doing a lightening session.

I'm both looking forward to it and very nervous.
A screenshot showing that my session "Dual booting for testing and curiosity with Dynamic System Updates" has been accepted at Droidcon London 2025.
August 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Thursday's #AndroidDev tip.

Get the ADB Idea plugin for Android Studio to easily perform some common ADB tasks, right from inside Android Studio: plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7380-...
A screenshot showing the ADB Idea menu within Android Studio, with some example actions such as; Revoke Permissions Revoke Permissions and Restart Grant Permissions Uninstall App Kill App Start App Restart App Clear App Data Clear App Data and Restart Start App With Debugger Restart App With Debugger Clear App Data and Restart App With Debugger Enable Wi-Fi Disable Wi-Fi Enable Mobile Data Disable Mobile Data
December 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Wednesday's #AndroidDev tip.

Do you have a Java-only library/module and you want to supply Proguard/R8 rules which are applied downstream?

Place the consumer rules in `/src/main/resources/META-INF/com.android.tools/r8/` and it will be picked up automatically by Android modules.
This image shows a consumer proguard-rules.pro file located at the path `src/main/resources/META-INF/com.android.tools/r8/` relative to the module's root path.
December 11, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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New week, new #AndroidDev tip.

Use developer.android.com/reference/ko... to get system services in a way which is idiomatically Kotlin.

Be aware, just like the older methods on Context, this method can return null too.
A block of example Kotlin code with the following contents; // Old ways val bluetoothManager = context.getSystemService(Context.BLUETOOTH_SERVICE) // ...or val bluetoothManager = context.getSystemService(BluetoothManager::class.java) // New way using androidx.core val bluetoothManager = context.getSystemService<BluetoothManager>()
December 2, 2024 at 6:30 PM