Dmitri • Android Developer

📱 10yrs Android Engineer
🎯 2026: Scaling my indie apps to $500 MRR:
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[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

Completed experimenting with diff AI assistants in Android Studio.

3rd party plugins are glitching in most cases.

The last one was RooCode for Deepseek , which broke IDE new version (Studio Quali).

Returned back to Gemini that natively integrates into Android Studio and works smoothly

#ai #androidstudio

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

Google Play’s recommendation algorithm is something else... 🫠
My Screenshot Maker app keeps getting traffic from the 'fake screenshots' search query, even though it doesn't have that feature at all. Crazy to see 😄

#buildinpublic

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

@49agents Claude code is definitely the best one, but a bit expensive. I used it before

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

My notes about experience with DeepSeek as AI coding assistant.

The main difficulty was integrating it into Android Studio. I tried "Continue Dev" and "RooCode" plugins

https://t.co/H47JzmT78U

#ai #deepseek #coding

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

@cgb_pandey Woo hoo 🎉 Congrats. Reddit is a great marketing channel. I was going to try it as well

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

+1 trial subscription. Hoping this one will ended up with the transaction.

I caught myself thinking that I hadn't tested the case when trial is ended and the transaction is failed.

What does In-app billing API return in this case !?

The current grace perion is 7 days.
Account hold period 53 days.

Building https://t.co/7Rnhno0ULN

PS:

Grace period: The length of time users can keep their subscription benefits while there's an issue with their renewal payment.

Account hold: The length of time between the grace period and a user's subscription expiring if the renewal payment fails. You should suspend user access to benefits during this period.

#androiddev #buildinpublic

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

@cgb_pandey Congrats man 🚀

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

@kushalbaid16 The same 😆 Just keep going. It's a marathon. Not every success story you see is real , some people use fake stats to promote their cources / AI services / etc.

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

AI can often bring more issues than writing code manually - especially with complex tasks like Pose Detection.

3rd part of fixing "vibe-coded" app ported from iOS to Android

Read https://t.co/VNBknoYRNd

#androiddev #mediapipe #ai

[Alex Styl @alexstyl]

ScrollField is now available in Material 3 Compose

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

Gemini as an AI coding assistant: pros and cons

#ai #coding

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

@desugar_64 DeepSeek is the next one to try. I found there is a plugin to JetBrains IDEs.

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

Continue searching and testing AI assistants for Android Studio.

❌️ Gemini API via GitHub Copilot. No.

I just used it for code generation for 2 hours and minus $6.

Copilot's prompts take 200k+ tokens. Google charges you x2 for prompts >200k tokens.

Left some notes with comparison on my Patreon
https://t.co/I6YfeoF6lE

#ai #coding

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

@desugar_64 I'm not ready to realize it 🥲

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

I'm shocked how GitHub Copilot burns out my tokens.

After Github Copilot had removed Claude Opus from available models, I started using Gemini 2.5 Pro and 3 Pro models, but added them as custom models by API key.

Then I started noticing how fast my money goes away.
So I turned on debug mode in a Google AI studio and realized my smallest prompts takes >200k tokens and Copilot adds ton of instructions.

The interesting part in Google pricing:
if the prompt takes >200k tokens the price x2 higher.

#ai #copilot

[Abhishek B R @abhitwt]

developers job nowadays be like...

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

I moved from Claude to Gemini for code generation.

Found GitHub removed Claude Opus from their GitHub Copilot Pro plan without any notice, moved it to Pro+ plan and made it unavailabe for individuals 🥲

I love to use Copilot in an Android Studio. Let's see how Gemini will be performing. Just added Gemini 3 models to Copilot.

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

I was thinking I would never reach the limit with the Claude model in GitHub Copilot.

But it happened.

I tried Gemini and GPT.
No one works better than Claude in case of code generation.

#vibecoding

[Dmitri • Android Developer @mobiledev_pro]

25 months since 1st launch.
1 month of ASO experiments.
Finally, organic traffic from Google Play Search started moving 📈

Nov '25: I marked the app as failed and stopped making updates.

Feb '26: I noticed a huge traffic spike from Google Play Explore.

Mar '26: I started experimenting with ASO: new keywords, new screenshots.

Organic growth seems like a marathon🫠

Now I'm experimenting with monetization strategies.

It's my Road to $500 MRR .

Screenshot Maker - https://t.co/b8LZ24VyhS
#buildinpublic #androiddev