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Ten quick edits should not queue ten syncs: unique work in WorkManager, done right

The user saves a note on the subway and puts the phone in their pocket. Android may kill your process a minute later. The note still has to reach the server when the train comes up for air, maybe in a

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Deepak JainSep 10 · 5 min read

Case Study: Reviving a 2016 Android App with an AI Agent

Every developer eventually inherits a codebase they didn't write, can't fully explain, and are expected to ship changes to anyway. Add an AI coding agent into that mix and you get two very different o

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Vishal vyasAug 24 · 2 min read

Engineering for India's Internet: The Technical Decisions Behind NIVO

Most tutorials on building a social app assume a baseline you don't actually have in India: fast networks, mid-range+ devices, and users who won't blink at a 20MB app download. None of that holds for

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Deepak JainJul 23 · 5 min read

System Design for Mobile Developers: What It Means for Your Career

If you've followed along, you've now seen six concrete examples of system design decisions made inside a mobile app. This last post isn't going to introduce a new pattern. It's going to connect the do

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itdragonMay 5 · 3 min read

Defeating ANRs: The War Against Latency in a World of Ads and Low-End Hardware

Introduction: The Unforgiving 5-Second Window In Android development, an ANR (Application Not Responding) is the ultimate badge of shame. For a high-frequency utility like Auto Clicker Fast, which op

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itdragonApr 22 · 3 min read

Practical Localization: Bridging the Gap Between Machine Translation and AI for Indie Apps

Bridging Machine Translation and AI in Practice Globalization is More Than Just “Encoding” Launching an app globally is about more than just swapping text in strings.xml. As an indie developer scalin

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itdragonApr 14 · 2 min read

Engineering Reliability: Solving the Performance Puzzle in Auto Clicker Fast

The Cost of Speed. Developing Auto Clicker Fast taught me that speed is a resource-intensive marathon. When 100 floating nodes are active, every millisecond of UI lag or redundant redraw can trigger a

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Tom HorvatApr 7 · 7 min read

Proto DataStore for Configuration, Room for Entities: Choosing the Right Cache Medium

There's a reflexive tendency in Android development to pick one persistence library and apply it everywhere. You chose Room, so everything goes in Room. You liked DataStore, so now your user preferenc

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Sukhdeep HunjanMar 18 · 8 min read

How Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Actually Works: Architecture, GAP, GATT and Device Roles

A practical engineering guide to BLE architecture, device roles, and the GAP/GATT protocols used in wearables and IoT systems. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a wireless protocol engineered for low-powe

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Ban NguyenFeb 16 · 3 min read

Android XR: The "Open Garden" Era of Spatial Computing is Here 👓

2026 marks the "Android moment" for spatial computing. Unlike the closed ecosystems of Apple or Meta, Google’s Android XR (partnered with Samsung and Qualcomm) is democratizing the market. For developers, the goalpost has moved. We aren't just buildi...

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Ten quick edits should not queue ten syncs: unique work in WorkManager, done right

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Defeating ANRs: The War Against Latency in a World of Ads and Low-End Hardware

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Android XR: The "Open Garden" Era of Spatial Computing is Here 👓