🤯 OOM root cause: A keypad-0 key on a keyboard was held down for 9 hours while the app sat on the passcode screen. We register a OnPreDrawListener for every key event and only remove it when the window next draws. The screen never redrew, so about 700,000 listeners piled up and took 188 MB.

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My favourite addition to Android recently has been the ability to collect Perfetto traces and heap dumps from production. With the Perfetto skill, it's even easier to debug performance from production. I wrote about how it works and how to use it in our blog. measure.sh/blog/android...

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I actually think the fearmongering around security is also the thing now. They see that between gens the models aren’t improving as much, open-weight competition is catching up so they must push the narrative on another feature. If they become “more secure” that will be their market “advantage”.

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It's 2026 and Android Studio stills loads projects with the "Android" view that hides your actual project structure and doesn't display the location of the files you open. Still treating Android devs like babies who shouldn't see a file that the Android team didn't think was important

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touched so much grass this summer i barely posted. the next few years might be rough but this good green earth will go on, you know

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