Adhithya Ramakumar

Designing @android dev tools & Jetpack Compose @google 🤖 product-design-engineer. I like shiny looking things.

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

New year, new website ✨

https://t.co/roYzBdguOA

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

"You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions."

— Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work

https://t.co/AyIk5fnKZL

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

I think about this a lot too. Also was really ahead of its time.

[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

I was thinking about it again recently, Google Allo was really ahead on the idea of chatting with Google Assistant or @'ing in conversations to build out this Agent/AI UX we have now

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

Lmao. 🔥

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Hi Kevin, we were celebrating Chelsea finishing 10th in the League, 33 points behind Arsenal, after spending £1 billion on players who wouldn’t get on our bench and whose only European football next season will be on a beach in Marbella. Thanks for asking!

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

let's put the hype to the test! @googlehealth

,✨🎉

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Mikel Arteta showed the Arsenal players the “pressure is a privilege” motivational speech by Tom Hiddleston a few weeks ago. Now he’s narrating a hype video for the champions league final 👏

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

tough luck arsenal. 😞

congrats PSG!

[Android Developers @AndroidDev]

From idea to app in just six weeks and featured in the #GoogleIO keynote? 🤯

The Jetpacker sample app showcases how you can implement on-device GenAI. Catch the full talk to see the on-device features in action → https://t.co/yxD5uQc2ec

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

@vikaskansalHQ haha, this is my favorite fictional product ever since i was a noogler.

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

There was a point where I made my parents get me a Nvidia GeForce card because Matrix didn't run on my PC. I wish I had the foresight convincing my dad to get NVDA stocks.

This was around 2003. 1000$ then worth 1.2m$ today.

[Max Weinbach @mweinbach]

In ~2016 when I was more into gaming, I convinced my dad to buy AMD when the new Zen architecture hit because I thought it was important. He got it at ~$8 per share, sold it at ~$14 per share. It was a great profit.

Hindsight, isn’t it funny

[Android Developers @AndroidDev]

Android is shifting to an intelligence system. 🧠

This evolution gives developers a spectrum of ways to engage users. Out of the box, Gemini can automate tasks across your app by analyzing the screen with zero code required.

For deeper integration, the AppFunctions Jetpack library provides an MCP-like solution. By combining your app’s tools, services, and data with natural language descriptions, OS agents can seamlessly discover and execute them.

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

the new google productivity suite logos are so much better. i am actually able to distinguish them pretty easily now on my phone / tabs

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

@iHarnoorSingh can you tell me more what you mean by needs a better design language?

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

the gemini app opens when i use the shortcut for an em dash (cmd shift -)

@GeminiApp is there a way to undo this? i am not able to find a way to remove this shortcut on a Mac. i really do use em-dashes quite a bit. and no, i am not a llm.

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

this makes the first 30% easy with ideation, scaffolding, and really high-fidelity "sketching" an android app.

the remaining 70% will decide if your app gets published. but this gives no excuse to not starting building android native.

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

We just launched the ability to build native Android apps directly in Google AI Studio for free!

Since launch last week, people have created more than 250,000 Android apps. Likely >99% of these folks never built an Android app before, everyone can now build, no coding required!

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

how did i miss the Snapseed update. app looks ✨

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

@Zhuinden Indeed :)

You can watch my talk here on the various ways in which you can use them: https://t.co/OrFMbDkyJr

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Bottle this feeling 🍾

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

The Google workspace ecosystem is one of the best for AI-based features. They're really winning the productivity space

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

@The_Northman9 This is an interesting use-cases although pretty niche. Let me talk to our text team.

[Adhithya Ramakumar @adhidesign]

Android UI development is now Compose-first. Views will be on maintenance mode going forward.

All new features will be built for Compose. If you have not migrated to Compose already, now is a good time to start! How? Use our XML Views -> Compose migration skills! ⬇️