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Sam Edwards in Updates | January 7, 2026

Handstand Sam7 Jan 2026

I’m currently sitting here with Intellij IDEA IDE open with 3 workspaces (different clones of the Trailblaze project). In each one of them I’m using Firebender with the Claude Sonnet 4.5 model.

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Sam Edwards in Updates | January 15, 2025

Handstand Sam15 Jan 2025

There is documentation on the Android Developer website sharing tips to run Android UI tests via the command-line which I’ve found super useful.

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Sam Edwards in Updates | December 9, 2024

Handstand Sam9 Dec 2024

What Do We Know About “Journeys With Gemini”? “Journeys with Gemini” was first (to my knowledge) discussed publicly at Droidcon London during a segment of #TheAndroidShow by Tor Norbye of the...

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Sam Edwards in Updates | May 30, 2024

Handstand Sam31 May 2024

I wrote this Kotlin K2 FIR guide because I was not able to find any guides or examples to get started with FIR for static analysis.

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Sam Edwards in Web | May 2, 2024

Handstand Sam2 May 2024

I wanted to embed the contents of my GitHub project on another website, but the path to get there wasn’t straightforward. Here are the roadblocks I hit, and how I got around them.

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Sam Edwards in Updates | September 5, 2023

Handstand Sam6 Sept 2023

As a former web-developer myself, I still gravitate back to browser-based UIs. They are so easy to access from anywhere, and are globally available.

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Sam Edwards in Updates | April 12, 2023

Handstand Sam12 Apr 2023

As the documentation says, you can combine both Espresso and Compose in an Android instrumentation test. In order to interact with Compose in an instrumentation test you need a ComposeTestRule.

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Sam Edwards in Updates | February 1, 2023

Handstand Sam1 Feb 2023

Kotlin companion objects allow you to add static data and methods associated with a class. This is similar to how Java has static fields and methods.

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