A developer's practical notes on using the Android Debug Bridge (adb), including shell helpers for wireless debugging and device selection. Also covers backing up phone files over adb with find, grep, sed and xargs.
Website: https://blog.mario-noll.de/
Programming Hard publishes practical, opinionated articles on Android and Kotlin app development, with a focus on testing and Gradle build setup. Each issue works through code examples to explain why common practices cause problems and what to do instead.
Technical posts on Kotlin and Jetpack Compose from an experienced Android engineer, covering layout theory, text field internals and state management. Readers get in-depth explanations of how Compose works under the hood, along with talk slides and companion articles.
A developer-focused blog covering Android development, screenshot testing, and Compose tooling, with practical walkthroughs of fixing flaky tests and preview naming. The sample also includes a personal essay about a lost laptop that promotes a simple backup routine.
A developer's blog-style newsletter with hands-on Android engineering tutorials, currently covering screenshot testing with Paparazzi, Git LFS in CI, and building agentic skills for LLMs. Readers get step-by-step walkthroughs with practical advice on when and how to apply each technique.
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