Ian Bird writes short technical articles for Android developers on media playback, covering ExoPlayer memory buffering, multichannel audio downmixing and debugging problematic videos with the ExoPlayer demo app. Readers get practical, hands-on pointers for working with Android media pipelines, though the writing is informal and self-described as containing mistakes.
Website: https://ianbird.dev/
A personal engineering blog by a Google Developer Expert for Android covering Android and Gradle engineering, developer experience, and practical LLM-assisted workflows. Issues mix first-hand industry observations, such as code review and AI test verification bottlenecks, with hands-on prompts and tutorials.
Practical guides to designing native iOS and Android apps, covering platform changes such as Liquid Glass in iOS 26 and 27 and component patterns like bottom sheets. Readers get concrete explanations of what changed, how iOS and Android differ, and what to adjust in their designs.
A personal technical blog covering reverse engineering a Nintendo DS game for fan translation, plus Kotlin and functional programming articles. Readers get detailed deep dives into ARM binaries, tooling and coding agents, alongside practical programming tutorials.
Short, technical posts on large-scale Android build engineering, covering modularization, CI sharding and plugin-based app architecture. The author shares experiments such as Jaccard-similarity clustering of module dependencies and AI-assisted decomposition of a production monolith.
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