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Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan24 May 2026
- Shipped an expandable header that broke mid-scroll. Went unnoticed for a week. - Broke highlighting of hyperlinks in text for the third time.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan23 Dec 2025
unfurl is one of my favorite open source libraries. Not because it’s clever or complex, but because it’s a tiny kotlin library that does one thing well: generate rich link previews by extracting...
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan27 Nov 2024
Sebastian Sellmair from JetBrains recently showed off a prototype of hot-reloading Compose UI code for deploying changes without rebuilding the project. It looks exciting and I want it to succeed.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan9 Aug 2023
How do you display a 100mb image on Android without running into OutOfMemoryError? You can’t. But you can cheat.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan12 Jul 2022
While exploring how text paragraphs are rendered in Compose UI, I nerd sniped myself into porting squiggly underlines from Sam Ruston’s Buzzkill app.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan23 Feb 2021
One of the many things I was constantly amazed about during my first few weeks at Square/Cash App was seeing how fast this team shipped code.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan18 Dec 2019
Changing line heights in Android using LineHeightSpan has this ugly side-effect where the cursor ends up being very tall, extending till the full line height instead of just the text height.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan18 Aug 2019
While working on a healthcare app called Simple at my previous company, we wanted to improve how nurses follow up with their patients.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan15 Dec 2018
I’ve been trying to write this post for a while, but I kept throwing my words in the bin in hopes that things will improve. I believe it’s now time to put an end to this.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan5 Oct 2018
When people use Dank, one of the terms they use to describe it is fluid. The app makes a good use of motion to indicate changes on the screen, but I think one of my favorite reasons why the app...
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan14 Sept 2018
When Google released Inbox for Android some 4 years ago, their UI was rad. I was obsessed with the navigation transition, where emails expanded from their list item when clicked, pushing all other...
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan15 Aug 2018
While working on Dank, my primary goal was to ensure that user generated content on Reddit receive as much attention in the app as possible, while letting the UI take a back-seat.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan30 Apr 2018
When Uncommon was brought in to refactor a big legacy app last year, we found ourselves in a strange situation.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan29 Jun 2017
While going through the codebase of a former client, I found that I was using four different ways for showing HTML on Android.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan31 May 2017
I’ve been working on implementing bundled notifications in my app, which is by far one of my favourite features about Android 7.0 Nougat.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan11 Sept 2016
There are two ways of “linkifying” URLs in a TextView. First, as an XML attribute: <TextView ... android:autoLink="phone|web" /> and second, programmatically: TextView textView = (TextView)...
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