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Harri Kirik

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Software engineer, gamer and a bookworm. From Karksi-Nuia, living in Tartu, Estonia.

Joined August 2023

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Feb 3
"Trade-in mode on Android 16+" by Rachel S via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/01/http... > Android 16 offers an easy way to access device information on any factory reset phone or tablet via the new tradeinmode parameter, accessed via adb commands. #androiddev
Trade-in mode on Android 16+

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Feb 3
"The Embedded Photo Picker" by Roxanna Aliabadi Walker and Yacine Rezgui via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/01/http... #androiddev
The Embedded Photo Picker

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jan 20
"Once Upon a Time, there was a podcast. A parable about podcasting and bureaucracy." by Chet Haase chethaase.medium.com/once-upon-a-... Having occasionally been a producer myself, I greatly enjoyed this parable. Thanks! #androiddev
Once Upon a Time, there was a podcast

A parable about podcasting and bureaucracy

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jan 20
"LLM flexibility, Agent Mode improvements, and new agentic experiences in Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop" by Sandhya Mohan and Trevor Johns via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/01/llm-... #androiddev
LLM flexibility, Agent Mode improvements, and new agentic experiences in Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Dec 19, 2025
"Build smarter apps with Gemini 3 Flash" by Thomas Ezan via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/buil... #Androiddev
Build smarter apps with Gemini 3 Flash

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Dec 19, 2025
"Brighten Your Real-Time Camera Feeds with Low Light Boost" by Donovan McMurray via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/brig... #androiddev
Brighten Your Real-Time Camera Feeds with Low Light Boost

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Dec 9, 2025
"Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop is stable!" by Sandhya Mohan and Trevor Johns via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/andr... #androiddev
Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop is stable!

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Dec 8, 2025
"Tap Detection on Arbitrary Shapes with Compose" by Romain Guy www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/a... #androiddev
Tap Detection on Arbitrary Shapes with Compose

Detecting whether a user tapped on an arbitrary shape represented by a Path is an unfortunately difficult task on Android. The Path class does not offer any API to do this, and the workaround I have s...

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Dec 4, 2025
"What's new in the Jetpack Compose December '25 release" by Nick Butcher via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/what... > Our internal scroll benchmarks show that Compose now matches the performance you would see if using Views #androiddev
What's new in the Jetpack Compose December '25 release

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Dec 3, 2025
"Finger Shadows in Compose" by Romain Guy www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/f... #androiddev
Finger Shadows in Compose

I recently realized that I have never discussed graphics programming on this blog, and decided it was time to correct this. A few years ago, Android 13 introduced the RuntimeShader API that allows you...

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Dec 3, 2025
"Android 16 QPR2 is Released" by Matthew McCullough via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/andr... #androiddev
Android 16 QPR2 is Released

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Nov 18, 2025
"Use R8 to shrink, optimize, and fast-track your app" by Ben Weiss via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/use-... #androiddev
Use R8 to shrink, optimize, and fast-track your app

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Nov 13, 2025
"Android developer verification walkthrough" video www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEAT... #androiddev
Android developer verification walkthrough

YouTube video by Android Developers

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Nov 11, 2025
"Raising the bar on battery performance: excessive partial wake locks metric is now out of beta" via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/rais...
Raising the bar on battery performance: excessive partial wake locks metric is now out of beta

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Nov 8, 2025
Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider is awesome 🔥 #anime

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 29, 2025
"High-Speed Capture and Slow-Motion Video with CameraX 1.5" by Leo Huang android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/10/high... #androiddev
High-Speed Capture and Slow-Motion Video with CameraX 1.5

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 27, 2025
"Understanding retain{} internals: A Scope-based State Preservation in Jetpack Compose" by Jaewoong Eum proandroiddev.com/understandin... #androiddev
Understanding retain{} internals: A Scope-based State Preservation in Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Compose is a modern Android UI development with its declarative approach and powerful state management primitives. While remember{}…

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 27, 2025
"Liquid Glass Components in Compose Multiplatform" by Julia Jakubcova medium.com/mateedevs/li... #androiddev
Liquid Glass Components in Compose Multiplatform

When building Compose Multiplatform apps, we often want native effects that make the UI feel “right” on each platform.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 27, 2025
"Understanding Gap Buffers in Jetpack Compose: The 60-Year-Old Algorithm Powering Modern Android UI" by Akshay Nandwana medium.com/@anandwana/u... #androiddev
Understanding Gap Buffers in Jetpack Compose: The 60-Year-Old Algorithm Powering Modern Android UI

How a simple data structure from the 1960s makes your Android apps blazingly fast

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 21, 2025
"Boost user engagement with AI Image Generation" by Thomas Ezan and Mozart Louis via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/10/boos... #androiddev
Boost user engagement with AI Image Generation

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 21, 2025
"Beyond Single Features: Guaranteeing Feature Combinations With CameraX 1.5" by by Tahsin Masrur via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/10/beyo... > If a user enables HDR, you can disable the 60 FPS option if the combination isn't supported on that device. #androiddev
Beyond Single Features: Guaranteeing Feature Combinations With CameraX 1.5

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 21, 2025
"Dynamic App Links: Elevating your Android deep linking" by Ran Mor via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/10/dyna... > You can now specify certain paths or sections of a URL that should not open your app, even if they would otherwise match your App Link configuration.
Dynamic App Links: Elevating your Android deep linking

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 13, 2025
"Jetpack WindowManager 1.5 is stable" via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/10/jetp... #androiddev
Jetpack WindowManager 1.5 is stable

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Oct 13, 2025
"Android Studio Narwhal 4 Feature Drop: watch face support and improved stability" by Paris Hsu via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/andr... #androiddev
Android Studio Narwhal 4 Feature Drop: watch face support and improved stability

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 22, 2025
"Navigate back with results in Jetpack Compose Navigation" by Anil Kumar Beesetti www.paleblueapps.com/rockandnull/... #androiddev
Navigate back with results in Jetpack Compose Navigation

Learn how to pass data back to the previous screen in Jetpack Compose Navigation without shared ViewModels or custom contracts. This lifecycle-aware approach works with basic types and serializable ob...

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 22, 2025
"Clipping and Masking in Jetpack Compose" by Victor Brandalise victorbrandalise.com/clipping-and... #androiddev
Clipping and Masking in Jetpack Compose by Victor Brandalise

Modern apps are judged as much by their polish as by their core features. Smooth micro-interactions, subtle visual cues, and expressive UI elements can make an experience feel refined. In Jetpack Comp...

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 18, 2025
"runBlocking in practice: Where it should be used and where not" by Marcin Moskała kt.academy/article/run_... #androiddev
runBlocking in practice: Where it should be used and where not

A comprehensive guide to using runBlocking in Kotlin Coroutines, including best practices and common pitfalls.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 18, 2025
"Wear OS Accessibility Considerations" by Eeva-Jonna Panula eevis.codes/blog/2025-09... #androiddev
Wear OS Accessibility Considerations | Eevis Panula, Mobile Accessibility Engineer

Lately, I've been learning about Wear OS development. In this blog post, I'll share some of the learnings I've had on Wear OS accessibility.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 17, 2025
"Building Smart Android Apps: Mastering Google’s ML Kit for Barcode and Text Recognition" by Vamsi Vaddavalli proandroiddev.com/building-sma... #androiddev
Building Smart Android Apps: Mastering Google’s ML Kit for Barcode and Text Recognition

Integrate powerful on-device machine learning capabilities into your Android applications without complex AI knowledge.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 17, 2025
"GraphQL in Android" by Anand Gaur medium.com/@anandgaur22... #androiddev
GraphQL in Android

If you are building Android apps, chances are you’ve worked with REST APIs. REST is simple and powerful, but sometimes it gives too much…

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 16, 2025
"Simplifying advanced networking with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation" by by Lorenzo Colitti and Patrick Rohr via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/simp... #androiddev
Simplifying advanced networking with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 16, 2025
"HDR and User Interfaces" by Alec Mouri via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/hdr-... #androidev
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/hdr-and-user-interfaces.html

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 10, 2025
"Unfold new possibilities with Compose Adaptive Layouts 1.2 beta" by Fahd Imtiaz & Miguel Montemayor via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/unfo... #androiddev
Unfold new possibilities with Compose Adaptive Layouts 1.2 beta

Create polished, responsive UIs for the ever-expanding ecosystem of screen sizes with Compose Adaptive Layouts Library 1.2, now officially in beta.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 10, 2025
"Improve app performance with optimized resource shrinking" by Johan Bay via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/impr... #androidev
Improve app performance with optimized resource shrinking

AGP 8.12.0 introduces optimized resource shrinking, an R8 feature that integrates resource and code optimization to create smaller, faster apps.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 2, 2025
"Building experiences for Wear OS" by Michael Stillwell via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/buil... #androiddev
Building experiences for Wear OS

Build engaging Wear OS experiences by prioritizing glanceability, power efficiency, and watch surfaces, and find a list of helpful resources.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Sep 2, 2025
"The evolution of Wear OS authentication" by John Zoeller via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/the-... #androiddev
The evolution of Wear OS authentication

Credential Manager revolutionizes Wear OS authentication, enabling seamless, secure sign-ins directly from watches with passkeys and a unified API.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Aug 21, 2025
"Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 is here" by Matthew McCullough via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/andr... #androiddev
Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 is here

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 release delivers enhanced user experience, richer app capabilities, and new features for increased developer productivity.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Aug 19, 2025
"Everything I know about good system design" by Sean Goedecke www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-... #systemdesign
Everything I know about good system design

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are…

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Aug 1, 2025
"Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop is stable - start using Agent Mode" by Paris Hsu via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/07/andr... #androiddev
Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop is stable - start using Agent Mode

Explore Android Studio Narwhal Feature Drop, with Agent mode for Gemini, new XR tools, and quality improvements for boosted developer productivity.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jul 14, 2025
"Evolving Android’s early-access programs: Introducing the Canary channel" by Dan Galpin via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/07/andr... #androiddev
Evolving Android’s early-access programs: Introducing the Canary channel

Android 16 is released, featuring updates for developers around performance, security, camera, and media to make apps more efficient and adaptive.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jul 8, 2025
"Curious case of missing Bottom Sheet Previews" by Saurabh Arora saurabharora.dev/posts/curiou... #androiddev
Curious case of missing Bottom Sheet Previews

While working on a Jetpack Compose project, I noticed my modal bottom sheet wasn’t appearing in Android Studio previews. I could preview the sheet’s contents by extracting them into a separate composa...

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jul 8, 2025
"Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology to promote privacy in age assurance" by Alan Stapelberg via Google Blog blog.google/technology/s... #androiddev
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology to promote privacy in age assurance

Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jun 30, 2025
"Kotlin Value Class: Type Safety Without Runtime Overhead" by Shakarim Bazhenov proandroiddev.com/kotlin-value... #androiddev
Kotlin Value Class: Type Safety Without Runtime Overhead

Kotlin’s value class lets you create type-safe wrappers around primitive values with no runtime cost in most scenarios. It's one of…

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jun 13, 2025
"Exploring On-Device AI for Android: Image Classification, Captioning & LLM Integration" by Stevan Milovanovic proandroiddev.com/exploring-on... #androiddev
Exploring On-Device AI for Android: Image Classification, Captioning & LLM Integration

I started this project out of pure curiosity — to explore what on-device AI can do on Android.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jun 12, 2025
"Developer preview: Enhanced Android desktop experiences with connected displays" by Francesco Romano via Android Developers Blog android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/deve... #androiddev
Developer preview: Enhanced Android desktop experiences with connected displays

Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 release features connected displays support, enabling you to transform your Android device into a powerful desktop workstation.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jun 12, 2025
Kui helistatakse ja öeldakse, et "Enefit Greenist helistame, mõõdikuvahetus tulemas teil" siis vastake kohe, et "Enefit Green ei tegele riistvaraga, sellega tegeleb Elektrilevi". Siis pannakse kõne ära. Elektrilevi enda nime nad ei kasuta, sest tolle veebilehel on pettuse hoiatus üleval.

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · Jun 4, 2025
"Wrapping a Fancy Ribbon around any Composable" by sinasamaki www.sinasamaki.com/wrapping-a-f... #androiddev
Wrapping a Fancy Ribbon around any Composable

How to animate a ribbon that wraps around UI elements in Jetpack Compose

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Harri Kirik handle.invalid · May 27, 2025
"Deep dive into annotations in Jetpack Compose" by Shreyas Patil blog.shreyaspatil.dev/deep-dive-in... #androiddev
Deep dive into annotations in Jetpack Compose

Use Jetpack Compose annotations `@ReadOnlyComposable`, `@NonRestartableComposable`, and `@NonSkippableComposable` to enhance app performance

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