Sam Edwards

@GoogleDevExpert for Android & Kotlin. Works at @Square. Previously @Dropbox, @CapitalOne.

[Anton Arhipov @antonarhipov]

OK, so all I need is M5, 64Gb of RAM, and a plane 😁

[droidcon USA @droidconUSA]

🗺️ What if AI could learn your app once—and never have to rediscover it?

@HandstandSam introduces Trailblaze, an open-source tool that lets AI agents explore your app, save the path, and replay it without another LLM call.

🔗 https://t.co/5RCFpYYLJr

#AndroidDev #AI #OpenSource #droidConUSA26

[Sam Edwards @HandstandSam]

@gpeal8 @brwngrldev I need to write a blog post called:

"It depends" is the answer to every question in software.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Jaewoong Eum @github_skydoves]

The Android Show is very soon!

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

[Sam Edwards @HandstandSam]

Thank you @androidweekly for featuring my latest post! https://t.co/QPShsXh7NB

[Sam Edwards @HandstandSam]

@JorgeCastilloPr Convert the video to a GIF and tell Gemini in Android Studio to do it? Wonder if it would/could figure out a way.

[Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlin]

📢 Kotlin 2.3.0 is out! Here are some of the highlights:
✅Language: More stable and default features, unused return value checker, explicit backing fields, and changes to context-sensitive resolution.
✅Kotlin/JVM: Support for Java 25.
✅Kotlin/Native: Improved interop through Swift export, faster build time for release tasks, C and Objective-C library import in Beta.
✅Kotlin/Wasm: Fully qualified names and new exception handling proposal enabled by default, and new compact storage for Latin-1 characters.
✅Kotlin/JS: New experimental suspend function export, `LongArray` representation, unified companion object access, and more.
✅Gradle: Compatibility with Gradle 9.0 and a new API for registering generated sources.
✅Compose compiler: Stack traces for minified Android applications.
✅Standard library: Stable time tracking functionality and improved UUID generation and parsing.
Learn more: ➡️ https://t.co/ZCWgrVuSaM

[John O'Reilly @joreilly]

Some nice Kotlin/Native related updates:

- Improved interop through Swift export
- C and Objective-C library import is in Beta
- Faster build time for release tasks (up to 40% faster)
#KMP

[John O'Reilly @joreilly]

One more Nano Banana Pro generated infographic! #KMP #CMP

[Sam Edwards @HandstandSam]

@joreilly This is amazing. The spelling is correct and everything. Next level.

[Sam Edwards @HandstandSam]

@joreilly It's nice to have it be so official! 😁

[Sebastian Sellmair @Sellmair]

Say hello to hot reloading compose resources, supported from CMP 1.10.0-alpha01 🔥

One of the first feature requests from @zsmb13 and @Cypressious

Thanks to Nikita Lipsky 😇

[andrew gao @itsandrewgao]

i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human

🧵 what led up to this breaking point

[Sam Edwards @HandstandSam]

@joreilly Another: https://t.co/pKnuTZ7hGl

[Sam Edwards @HandstandSam]

@joreilly Another: https://t.co/9Tw8BLriTG

[Sam Altman @sama]

gpt-oss is out!

we made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!)

(and a smaller one that runs on a phone).

super proud of the team; big triumph of technology.