Saket Narayan
@saket.me
Building Cash App (at S̶q̶u̶a̶r̶e̶ Block) • Android GDE • he/him
🌎 https://saket.me/
📍 Waterloo, Canada
🌎 https://saket.me/
📍 Waterloo, Canada
My designer friends at Google, I love you, but this has to be one of your saddest attempts at copying Apple's UX.
www.androidauthority.com/android-flas...
www.androidauthority.com/android-flas...
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My designer friends at Google, I love you, but this has to be one of your saddest attempts at copying Apple's UX.
www.androidauthority.com/android-flas...
www.androidauthority.com/android-flas...
It's so bad! I was surprised when it was featured on stage.
October 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It's so bad! I was surprised when it was featured on stage.
Google made the greatest wallpaper set in human history. Then they just… stopped. Anyone know why?
October 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google made the greatest wallpaper set in human history. Then they just… stopped. Anyone know why?
2025 in one screenshot: my phone's AI is talking to another AI on a phone call.
September 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
2025 in one screenshot: my phone's AI is talking to another AI on a phone call.
Step one after installing Android 16: turn off HDR brightness
August 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Step one after installing Android 16: turn off HDR brightness
July 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'm a simple person. If a game reminds me of Age of Empires, I'm already reaching for my wallet. play.google.com/store/apps/d...
June 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm a simple person. If a game reminds me of Age of Empires, I'm already reaching for my wallet. play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Implicit enum case matching has long been one of my favorite Swift language features. Very excited to see it coming to Kotlin too. kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsne...
June 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Implicit enum case matching has long been one of my favorite Swift language features. Very excited to see it coming to Kotlin too. kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsne...
Tried to surprise my wife by arriving early in the country, but Bump, an app I use to share my location with her, gave me away even though I had paused it.
Turns out "pause" just blocks you from using the app, while it keeps running in the background. Lesson learned!
Turns out "pause" just blocks you from using the app, while it keeps running in the background. Lesson learned!
June 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Tried to surprise my wife by arriving early in the country, but Bump, an app I use to share my location with her, gave me away even though I had paused it.
Turns out "pause" just blocks you from using the app, while it keeps running in the background. Lesson learned!
Turns out "pause" just blocks you from using the app, while it keeps running in the background. Lesson learned!
I'm excited about a new set of spatial geometry types in the latest Telephoto release to solve this problem.
Different coordinate spaces have been a long-standing source of confusion, not only for consumers, but for me too.
saket.github.io/telephoto/zo...
Different coordinate spaces have been a long-standing source of confusion, not only for consumers, but for me too.
saket.github.io/telephoto/zo...
May 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I'm excited about a new set of spatial geometry types in the latest Telephoto release to solve this problem.
Different coordinate spaces have been a long-standing source of confusion, not only for consumers, but for me too.
saket.github.io/telephoto/zo...
Different coordinate spaces have been a long-standing source of confusion, not only for consumers, but for me too.
saket.github.io/telephoto/zo...
Building an image cropper?
Telephoto 0.16.0 brings several quality-of-life improvements for building croppers, including a new demo in the sample app: github.com/saket/teleph...
Telephoto 0.16.0 brings several quality-of-life improvements for building croppers, including a new demo in the sample app: github.com/saket/teleph...
May 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Building an image cropper?
Telephoto 0.16.0 brings several quality-of-life improvements for building croppers, including a new demo in the sample app: github.com/saket/teleph...
Telephoto 0.16.0 brings several quality-of-life improvements for building croppers, including a new demo in the sample app: github.com/saket/teleph...
A majority of my time working on a large android project is just staring at this popup
May 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A majority of my time working on a large android project is just staring at this popup
California is so pretty. Wish we could move there if it weren't so expensive.
May 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
California is so pretty. Wish we could move there if it weren't so expensive.
Oh hey, Satellite SOS is now available in Canada.
March 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Oh hey, Satellite SOS is now available in Canada.
How I imagine foldable phones will look in 2035
March 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
How I imagine foldable phones will look in 2035
We're drawing android's navigation bar for a fun project in Cash App, and some of us at the office got nerd sniped by the back button—how do we draw an equilateral triangle with rounded corners using Path?
January 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We're drawing android's navigation bar for a fun project in Cash App, and some of us at the office got nerd sniped by the back button—how do we draw an equilateral triangle with rounded corners using Path?
it was insane! the camera on my pixel fold wasn't able to do justice. here's another video that was taken on our way from FLL to YKF:
January 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
it was insane! the camera on my pixel fold wasn't able to do justice. here's another video that was taken on our way from FLL to YKF:
I'm going to take more sunset flights from now on
January 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm going to take more sunset flights from now on
How not to use resource qualifiers: a screenshot of AfterShip on a large display.
Is anyone building a better parcel tracker for android?
Is anyone building a better parcel tracker for android?
January 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
How not to use resource qualifiers: a screenshot of AfterShip on a large display.
Is anyone building a better parcel tracker for android?
Is anyone building a better parcel tracker for android?
Snowpiercer, GRT edition
January 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Snowpiercer, GRT edition
help, my terminal is possessed!
December 31, 2024 at 5:33 AM
help, my terminal is possessed!