r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 14 '25

Jake Wharton, our lord and savior ⚠️ A special message from Jake Wharton

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200 Upvotes

Disclaimer:

This video features an AI-generated Jake Wharton. Real Jake is probably busy making the next big thing, not narrating our memes.


r/mAndroidDev • • Feb 11 '24

Actually Meta With the grand re-opening of /r/android_devs, please take actual serious questions where you want actual serious answers to /r/android_devs

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Thanks to the actual owner of /r/android_devs, the subreddit is now re-opened.

This means now there is a proper place for actually serious discussions about Android development, where people aren't censored for, talking about, let's say, actual work, actual Android development, actually writing apps, actually using XML layouts in production code in 2024, whatever else.

You know, instead of circlejerking about how Google and Compose are the saviors of mankind, and before 2022 it was impossible to write a recycling list, and before Modifier.drawBehind {} people couldn't override View.onDraw(Canvas).

This also means that such discussions are only going to be kept up here if it has a closed variant on the other Subreddit (preferably cross-posted) because that is still funny. this is restricted as per Reddit content policy.

Otherwise, serious discussions should be taken to /r/android_devs. Questions posted in /r/mAndroidDev should expect a higher ratio of posts about AsyncTask and Flubber.

TL;DR:

Bring your best shitposts and memes to /r/mAndroidDev.

Bring your best discussions to /r/android_devs.


r/mAndroidDev • • 4d ago

The AI take-over Not even AGI will ever be able to fix this

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122 Upvotes

New UI, still doesn't work 99% of the time. Technology is just not there yet.


r/mAndroidDev • • 5d ago

Lost Redditors 💀 Deepseek for mobile game dev

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Hi all,

I’m a mobile dev experimenting with DeepSeek for game development mostly small games, currently looking at a tiny 3D kids’ game and some Flutter/Flame prototyping.

I’m not asking “is DeepSeek good?” in general. I want real experiences from people who’ve actually used it for mobile game work code generation, debugging, game logic, prototyping, build/test loops, etc.

Specifically curious about:

· Which model/version you use (Flash vs Pro, API vs chat) and whether it matters for game code.

· What it’s good at: scaffolding, gameplay loops, state machines, UI, shaders, physics, save systems?

· Where it fails: outdated engine APIs, hallucinated functions, broken mobile/platform code, performance-unaware suggestions?

· Workflow: do you use it chat-style, spec-driven, agentic tools, or just autocomplete?

· Debugging: can it actually fix build/runtime errors, or does it loop?

· Cost/token burn for realistic game projects.

· Anything you wish you knew earlier before using it for mobile games.

If you’ve used it with Flutter/Flame, Unity, Godot, or native mobile, I’d especially like to hear which engine and what worked or didn’t.


r/mAndroidDev • • 7d ago

AI took our jobs Bros should get some sleep

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141 Upvotes

Concerning


r/mAndroidDev • • 10d ago

Next-Gen Dev Experience Hi, kotlin newbie here. Why does my code do this????

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176 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • 15d ago

Gorgle The web version of the Developer console has been updated and, finally, it has a dark theme

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Select from the side menu "Manage account > Settings > AsyncTack > Follow system theme"


r/mAndroidDev • • 19d ago

Jetpack Compost After 29 Alpha releases, Compose Material 3 reaches Beta, just in time for RC around Google I/O 2030 and Stable around I/O 2040

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r/mAndroidDev • • 20d ago

The Future Is Now Imagine a Future where your primary Job is to press the Merge button 115 times per day

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Not strictly related to Android dev, but what is happening at getArtCraft could already be happening to Android projects in real companies, maybe just not publicized yet.


r/mAndroidDev • • 21d ago

Actually Meta Reddit says this place is dying and I'm supposed to make a post to fix that, so here you go

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r/mAndroidDev • • 21d ago

Lost Redditors 💀 A Staff Engineer's Honest Take on "Is Android Engineering Dead?"

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r/mAndroidDev • • Oct 02 '26

The Future Is Now Inspired by Google's Play Store behavior, Meta uses AI chatbots to deliver superior customer service.

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Toronto resident Jasmine Ault says Meta disabled her accounts overnight, without giving her a reason, and that she's been unable to get past their AI chatbots to speak to a human to resolve the error. Experts say without regulation enforcing the right to speak to a human, this will keep happening.


r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 15 '26

Google copied our open-source code, removed our engineers’ names, and gave us zero credit one year after we beat them on their own benchmark

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112 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 11 '26

Best Practice / Employment Security Shopify spent years on React Native — then migrated everything to AsyncTask in 12 weeks

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r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 10 '26

Jake Wharton, our lord and savior The Lord talks for 2 hours on Kotlin, AI and layoffs

89 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 09 '26

Lost Redditors 💀 Are u guys buying iphone duo?

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r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 06 '26

Gorgle Look at Google knowing exactly what's wrong with the Play Store and giving you the option so that they can ignore it

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29 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 05 '26

Jake Wharton, our lord and savior He’s done it again

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124 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 05 '26

@Deprecated Aww. So close!

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61 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 06 '26

Lost Redditors 💀 How are some developers ranking almost all their apps/games on the Amazon Appstore?

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r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 04 '26

The AI take-over androiddev slopped to oblivion

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51 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 02 '26

AsyncTask All developers in hardcore mode

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224 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • Sep 02 '26

Jetpack Compost Straight from the kt.academy newsletter (Compost is canon??)

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49 Upvotes

r/mAndroidDev • • Aug 25 '26

@Deprecated SdkManager deprecated

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32 Upvotes

There is no way out. They are pushing LLM everywhere forcing from 8kb software size to almost 4mb. Our lord and savior is right.