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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.
55%plop scoreSaket 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...
60%plop scoreSaket 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.
59%plop scoreSaket 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.
58%plop scoreSaket 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.
51%plop scoreSaket Narayanby Saket Narayan2 Dec 2021
I found an old screen in Cash App today that wasn’t retaining its scroll position across configuration changes.
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.
60%plop scoreSaket 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.
51%plop scoreSaket 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.
47%plop scoreSaket Narayanby Saket Narayan16 Jun 2019
An exploratory talk that showcases how Android can deliver a beautiful experience to the user using material design principles and various framework APIs like gestures and spans.
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.
52%plop scoreSaket 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...
51%plop scoreSaket 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.
53%plop scoreSaket Narayanby Saket Narayan26 Jul 2018
Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. In the world of Android, where all sources of information and user interactions are asynchronous, UI state can become hard to...
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.
52%plop scoreSaket Narayanby Saket Narayan5 Nov 2017
Do you know what’s common between the blinking cursor, hyperlinks and text highlighting in TextViews? They’re all implemented using spans.
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.
54%plop scoreSaket 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)...
47%plop scoreSaket Narayanby Saket Narayan28 Aug 2016
Android developers spend a lot of time writing XML layouts every day. This talk will explain how Android’s LayoutInflater works.