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Sasikanth

@sasikanth.dev

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He/Him. Android and Kotlin Multiplatform engineer. Indie app developer on Google Play and App Store. Gaming | Anime | Formula 1. Professional procrastinator.

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Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Oct 27

A new update is rolling out for Pinnit (v1.1.0). We added some of the most requested features, bug fixes, and improvements.

Added a couple of (Chinese simplified, Ukrainian and Italian) translations, and a shortcut to crowdsource more translations.

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · 6d

Back home for few days, I can finally work on Twine again over the weekend. Want to explore using Navigation 3 and improve large screen support for the app 👀

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 14d

Designers when an android engineer ask to just use the system back arrow: “our custom back arrow is an expression of our brand, we cannot yield to looking like a Google app”

Designers when Liquid Glass looks like shit everywhere in their app: “LEROY JENKINSSSSSSS”

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · 27d

Time to switch back to using Android fulltime. It's been a while, gonna miss some nice indie apps from iOS though.

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Sep 2

Thank you 😄

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Sep 1

Yes! Thanks Yasmine 😁

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Sep 1

Thank you Chris 😃

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Sep 1

Thank you Kasper 😃

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Sep 1

Thanks Chris! 😃

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Sep 1

Brand new day, brand new role. Joining Google as a UX engineer for Android Developer Experience. One more goal achieved 🙌🏾

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Aug 18

Twine now allows users to save entire articles for offline access. Open the reader view, and it will automatically download the content. Hopefully I can add a setting in next update to preload content.

github.com/msasikanth/t...

Move post content and full article HTML to separate table (#1281) · msasikanth/twine@72c5e83

* Add `FullArticleFetcher` to fetch HTML content * Move post raw content to a separate table The `rawContent` field has been removed from the `Post` table and moved to a new `postContent` table. ...

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Aug 4

✨ New Twine update rolling out ✨

In case you're wondering what the perf changes are, it's handling unnecessary recompositions because of dynamic theming I had implemented 😅

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Aug 3

Thank you 😃

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Aug 3

New Pinnit update rolling out with bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements.

play.google.com/store/apps/d... play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 25

Yeah, one of the other options I was thinking was making it part of onboarding, so that they can at least select certain categories and app automatically adds some of the popular feeds. At least that way user can see the related topics they like when they are opening the app for first time.

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 25

TIL, there is `retryWhen` extension function for Kotlin flows. That's neat!

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 25

Have you tried pre-populating some feeds? I am doing that on Twine and so far I haven't received a warning for the category.

I don't like the idea of adding some feeds, but went with some popular options.

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 21

Oh yeah, it has bunch of issues. I was just curious if LookAheadScope will work with lazy layouts at all.

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 21

@sebastiano.dev it looks like LookAheadScope and animateBounds is enough to animate the LazyVerticalGrid cell changes.

Obviously the transition isn’t perfect but I think adjusting animation timings and playing around with fade spec for other items should improve it.

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 18

Let’s go! Finally we can match shadows from Figma properly without drawing them on canvas (at least that’s what I did in the past 😂)

Chris Sinco @c5inco.bsky.social · Jul 17

ICYMI #JetpackCompose finally has a proper box shadow API as of 1.9.0-beta01. Now we can have nice things like this web demo:

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is very good.

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models.

The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 7

Nowhere close to done, but finally starting to setup Fresh RSS Google Reader API integration for Twine 👀

github.com/msasikanth/t...

Add support for Fresh RSS Google Reader API integration by msasikanth · Pull Request #1215 · msasikanth/twine

This should support other services that expose Google Reader compatible API as well fixes: #267

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 6

Oh god! Not another trauma filled story from night city 🙃

www.theverge.com/news/698579/...

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will be even sadder and bloodier

More cyber sequels.

www.theverge.com

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 6

This is a nice addition to Android Studio/Intellij Idea. I can just quickly test out all my API calls without having to switch to a different app.

www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/ht...

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 3

Fully deserved! Your new PC video is amazing, keep on making these videos :D

Sasikanth @sasikanth.dev · Jul 3

Thanks for posting this. Going through this, I have been getting more and more anxious. But it's better to just take a short break and be a little bit more kind to myself 😅