Enhance your app for the new Pixel lineup: Unveiled at Made by Google

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Made by Google expands what's possible across the Android ec…

Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app

Posted by Chiara Chiappini, Developer Relation Engineer, Android Developer Relations One-handed gestures offer a convenient and touch-free way for users to interact with their watches, enabling them to perform key act…

What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release

Posted by Nick Butcher, Product Manager, Jetpack Compose Today, the Jetpack Compose August ‘26 release is stable! This release brings version 1.12 across core Compose modules (see the full BOM mapping), introducing r…

Media3 1.11 - What's new?

Posted by Toni Heidenreich, Software Engineer, Android Media3 1.11 is out. Powering the vast majority of top Android media apps, this release brings new features, bug fixes, and improvements across playback, editing,…

Inside Android Skills - Built for deprecation

Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations We released the official Android Skills in April, and the response surpassed all our expectations. In this blog post, I'll address some …

Learn how the latest Android Studio AI features can streamline your daily development tasks. While the original agent mode chat was helpful, we rebuilt it with a re-architected experience that supports parallel tool call…

Discover the origin story of Jetpack Compose and how it changed the way Android developers build applications. We discuss the original challenges of unbundling the UI toolkit from the operating system to deliver faster u…

Delivering safer, age-appropriate experiences on Google Play

Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play Providing a safe online experience and protecting users from harm is a top priority at Google Play. We take this responsibility seriously and have been inve…

We’re proud to share that JetBrains was recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.  JetBrains solutions for DevOps include Qodana for code qual…

JetBrains AI for Teams and Organizations: From Fragmented AI Usage to Coordinated Software Development

We’re about to start rolling out a new set of AI capabilities that provide shared context, reusable agentic workflows, organization-level governance, and cost control for software production. Developers use different AI …

Toolbox App 3.6: Smarter Storage Cleanup, Windows installation diagnostics, and More

Toolbox App 3.6 gives you better control over local storage and makes Windows installation failures easier to diagnose. Clean up removable Toolbox App data from Settings The Toolbox App now shows how much removable data …

Obfuscated Rhythm Games

I’ve been a rhythm game fiend since my introduction to Dance Dance Revolution in the early 2000s. I spent years obsessed with DDR, took a detour into Beatmania, then played Guitar Hero / Rock Band nonstop for years. I ha…

Your JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn

Every developer has tools they rely on daily. The workflows they’ve built around them, the ways they’ve learned to move faster, debug smarter, and write better code – that kind of hands-on experience can be hard to put i…

Many organizations are already deploying agentic workflows. Some are still experimental, while others are running in production. Once an AI agent can take action on behalf of a business, the question is no longer whether…

Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 (Yet)

Most programming languages follow a familiar trajectory: early experimental releases, rapid iteration, and then – at some point – a 1.0 version that signals stability and the potential for serious adoption. Zig hasn’t fo…

How to use Jest mocks

For better or worse, my life has become infested by Jest mocks. I come from the land of dependency injection (I even gave a talk once!), but whenever I talk about dependency injection to JavaScript developers I get this …

What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?

This is a writeup of a talk I gave at Minnebar 20. Originally, I threw in some Matrix references to make the talk more fun & engaging. Those jokes work better in person, so I’ve mostly omitted the Matrix from this writeu…

310 - Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow

Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp, built some of the most impressive DevOps tools like Vagrant and Terraform, sold the company to IBM — and then built a terminal. Ghostty is now where a huge chunk of agentic coding…

309 - Background Agents

Andrej Karpathy says the goal is to maximize how long an agent runs without your intervention. But there's a false summit most teams hit first: individual speed goes up while system speed stalls, your laptop roars under …

308 - How Image Diffusion Models Work - the 20 minute explainer

You already know how LLMs work from our popular 20-minute explainer. Now we take it to images. What does Michelangelo have to do with stable diffusion? More than you'd think. Walk away knowing how image generation actual…

307 - Harness Engineering - the hard part of AI coding

The hard part of AI coding isn't generating code — it's controlling quality, safety, and drift. Kaushik and Iury break down harness engineering: the five pillars for shaping an agent's environment and what it looks like …

306 - Keeping your agent instructions in sync and effective

AGENTS.md is becoming the common language for AI coding tools, but keeping repo Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com. Show Notes The sync problem AGENTS.md - Official spec Custom instructions with AGENTS.md - Keep you…

Join hosts Tor and Romain as they sit down with Søren Gjesse, Chris Craik, and Shai Barack. This week, the team dives into R8, the whole-program optimizer that handles the "last mile" of your code before it runs on a de…

305 - Subagents explained - What they are, when (not) to spawn them

Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminology, unpack plan mode vs subagents, and explain how parallel, scoped workers imp…

Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices

Journalists, I beg of you: please stop confusing unsold eBay listings for actual sales. I’m ticked off after seeing this Patch post about NYC MetroCards selling for $5,000 and this WSJ article about Trader Joe’s totes go…

Join hosts Tor, Chet, and Romain as they sit down with Diego Perez (Android Studio) and Patrick Fuentes (Developer Relations) to explore the new frontiers of Android XR. This episode of Android Developers Backstage brea…

How I’m Using Agents for Development – January 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. As I’m writing this I just…

Now In Android #123

In this episode Tor and Chet chat with Raluca Saucic and Eugene Yakavets about the new "Bring Your Own Model" feature in Android Studio which allows using other models than Gemini for agent mode, including models from An…

Hacking Displate (For Fun!)

During the pandemic my weird vice/obsession became Displates (metal wall art hung up by magnets): Some of my Displates (along with other tchotchkes in my office) For me, part of the hobby was poking holes in their websit…

My most recent “just for fun” project was to find the least erratic of the Erratic decks in Balatro (a poker-ish roguelike deckbuilder game). Before each game, you pick a deck that has a special power. The Erratic deck c…

Now in Android #121

Hosts Tor and Chet are joined by Adarsh Fernando, a Product Manager, and Ray Buse, a Software Engineer, to discuss Journeys for Android Studio. Powered by Gemini's vision and reasoning, Journeys aims to simplify end-to-e…

Now in Android #120

Now in Android #119

Now in Android #118 — Google I/O 2025 Part II

A product manager’s guide to adapting Android apps across devices

UseCases: Injectable Functions

This post demystifies use cases: they’re just functions with dependency injection. Single-purpose classes that simplify complex logic by letting DI handle dependencies, making code cleaner and testable.

Modularizing with Intent: Finding the Right Module Naming Convention

Kotlin module naming convention: [group-]domain-layer[-contexts]. Flat, flexible, KMP-friendly—read on!

Running Specific Android UI Tests using TestParameterInjector via a Regex

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. It provides examples on how to run specific tests (instead of running them …

LLM Based Android UI Testing – “Journeys with Gemini”

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 Android Studio team. We saw …

Demystifying Maestro’s UI Testing Implementation

I first heard about Maestro when it was released in 2022, but I haven’t played with it until now. I’m doing some work with Espresso and UiAutomator for Android testing and was curious how Maestro worked under the hood, s…

Parameterized Android Tests with Burst 2.0

Parameterized tests allow you to write a test once, but allow it to be called with multiple parameters. This means it is creating more methods than you’ve written, but without you having to write and maintain each one in…

Coroutines and Dispatchers

Kotlin K2 FIR Quickstart Guide

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. K2 is now finally stable in Kotlin 2.0.0 and future versions, so FIR will be the recomme…

Introducing Trio | Part III

Introducing Trio | Part II

Introducing Trio | Part I

Encapsulate your @Composable functions

A convenient convention for complex composable components.

Making Airbnb’s Android app more accessible

Airbnb’s Page Performance Score on Android

How we enable Airbnb team members to code like a mobile engineer

Android Parcelable: There's a better way

Introducing a new library that uses Kotlinx Serialization to parcellize objects on Android.

Jetpack Compose Multiplatform!?

The Jetpack Compose UI toolkit for Android now supports the Desktop with the possibility of more platforms.