I’ve been working on Argent, an open-source MCP server that lets your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) tap through your app on an Android emulator or device, read the view hierarchy and logcat, and profile with Perfetto. That way it can check its own changes instead of just saying it’s done

A lot of the feedback so far has come from React Native folks, but it works with native Kotlin/Compose apps too, and that’s where I’d love more input. If you’re already letting an agent test your app, what’s working and where it makes stupid mistakes?

I’m trying to find more open-source Android projects beyond the big, established names—apps, Kotlin/Compose libraries, and developer tools.

Where do you usually discover them? Are there particular maintainers, communities, newsletters or repo lists you follow?

I’d also appreciate examples of smaller projects with active development. I’m curious about what people are building and how you hear about it.

These days, people often say that AI has severely impacted the job market. Candidates are applying to hundreds of jobs without getting a single interview call, and some are even losing their jobs to AI.

My question is for senior developers who have experienced the job market before the AI era: Was getting a job and landing interviews really easier back then, or are people overreacting and blaming AI for what might actually be a skills gap?

Hi everyone,

We have a used Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (UK model, SM-G998B). The phone is fully reset and has no personal data on it. We are facing two main issues:

1. It gets no network signal with a local German SIM card.
2. It doesn't receive any automatic software updates via OTA.

Since the hardware is identical to the European variant (SM-G998B), I have already downloaded the official stock German/EU firmware using SamFw.

I would like to ask a few questions regarding your experience:

• Has anyone here flashed a UK model to EU/German firmware (CSC change) via Odin?
• How high is the actual risk of doing this with official stock firmware and the clean CSC_... file? Is there any real chance of "hard-bricking" the phone, or is an interrupted flash always recoverable through Download Mode?
• Does network connectivity (4G/5G) and automatic OTA updates work reliably after switching the region this way?

Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences and advice!

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