Dev - Pavel Korolev

2025

22.01

How to Be an Advanced PC User I quite often mention my thesis that modern software can now only be used if you're a developer or tester yourself. Because any normal person who doesn't think …

10.01

Recordings from Kolesa Conf about Decompose Finally the talk recordings from Kolesa appeared, including mine about Decompose. Turns out there's one more plus to going first in the lineup - your photo on …

android kotlin dev

05.01

About Keys in Compose Lazy Layouts It seems everyone already knows that in some LazyColumn you can set keys for elements and they're used so that the same composable isn't bothered unnecessarily. …

android kotlin dev

03.01

About Search Sometimes I make cautious forays out of the Google world to see what's going on with the competition. And if for some services in principle you can find a …

2024

31.12

2024 Recap Recap, yes. I'm already tired of all this myself. Largely the mood is absent due to some extremely unpleasant cold, from which I can't normally recover for the …

10.12

You Can't Just Delete a Module We need to talk seriously, instead of closing our eyes to this time after time. Am I understanding correctly that in the entire ten-year history of Android …

android gradle dev

06.12

Routine Lately I've started noticing that a large share of my working time goes not so much to some tasks, achieving personal and team goals, but to attempts to digest …

23.11

Effects and Compose On air the regular rubric "someone fought on the internet". Today on the agenda is this exchange of tweets. It all starts with mundane hating on …

android kotlin dev

21.11

Quick Publication of Conference Recordings Respect to conferences that publish recordings not in six months, but immediately, while you still haven't forgotten what you wanted to watch. And often the …

17.11

CodeTalks 2024 Yesterday was a busy day. Spent it from morning till evening at the CodeTalks conference. Keynote by Vitaliy Sharovatov - such a typical keynote. Motivational …

14.11

Documentation Not for Humans The main problem with any LLMs right now is that we humans have a very hard time forming the connection between a task and the fact that it can be delegated to …

20.10

Clean / Rebuild Project In the new canary version of Studio they removed the menu items Build - Clean and Build - Rebuild Project. Yeah, the two most clicked buttons in Studio after …

android gradle dev

19.10

October 18. Kolesa Conf '24 My life goal disappeared for a while, spoke yesterday at Kolesa's conference. Being first in the schedule should have been quite stressful, but in fact it …

03.10

New Google Play Console Design Google rolled out an updated design in the console yesterday. And it's some kind of disgrace. Let's look at the new sidebar menu. The first and most wonderful …

30.09

ViewModel Initialization ** Over the past month, the English-speaking community has been rehashing the topic of how to properly trigger state initialization in ViewModel. First there …

android kotlin dev

26.09

September 25. Altel Digital Android Meetup #1 Yesterday I attended the first external Android meetup from colleagues in Kazakhstan telecom. For the first time it turned out quite large-scale, the guys have …

22.09

Podlodka Android Crew #12. Day 5 The final day also turned out to be heavy, accumulated oversaturation made itself known, I've only just recovered. The first talk of the day from Anna Zharkova …

20.09

Podlodka Android Crew #12. Day 4 As I already mentioned, a very long day. Three talks and random coffee. The first talk of the day from Zhenya Matsyuk is his classic base on UI tests, such a …

19.09

Podlodka Android Crew #12. Day 3 The long long fourth day is over, but we're not in a hurry, so let's discuss the third. The first talk of the day about release trains from Yandex.Disk. I made …

18.09

Podlodka Android Crew #12. Day 2 The morning talk of the second Podlodka day from Grigory Shimichev about custom detekt rules. Same thing. I have experience, I've already written them, so half …

17.09

Podlodka Android Crew #12. Day 1 I took time off to watch the new Podlodka season with full strength (actually not, it just coincided). The automation week really hits me right now, so I have a …

25.08

Kolesa Conf 2024 Announcement October 18th. Mobile track of Kolesa Conf '24. Almaty. https://kolesa-conf.kz/ In two months I'll speak at one of the biggest offline conferences in …

23.08

WebView and Compose In our application, quite a lot of features are opened simply as WebView with a bunch of different settings, hooks, overriding URL loading logic, many …

android kotlin dev

15.08

File Discrepancy Dialog in IntelliJ One of the funniest features of IntelliJ is this dialog about the discrepancy between the file content in memory and on disk. And it appears at the most …

03.08

About Bugs A bit of post-Friday observations. On one hand, at work you should be engaged, try to understand better and better how your project works in every aspect. This …

30.07

Video from BeeTech Conf They promised the video in about a week, but only three months have passed Well, at least now I have at least one video with nice production. …

26.07

Compose Tips So there's this YouTube channel called Android Developers from Google. They release videos there like fresh short Compose Tips. They essentially look like a …

android kotlin dev

20.07

Guidelines as Law Writing documentation of any kind is generally quite a hassle. Usually, it brings about as much benefit as harm. Writing unambiguously understandable is …

16.07

State Problems I find it hard to imagine a more painful problem in modern software than how much everyone doesn't care about state preservation in applications. My …

30.06

Compose and Fragments Google recently released the fragment-compose artifact with the AndroidFragment function. In short, this is the first first-party way to wrap a Fragment into a …

android kotlin dev

22.06

Code Generation from Figma Let's start with the fact that I'm still very skeptical of the idea in the title in the sense you understand it by default. That is, for me it's absolutely …

19.06

Feature Drop The other day, Pixel offered to update, saying it's the June feature drop. I agreed to my own detriment. And in settings, search in Developer options stopped …

13.06

Diving into Interesting Work I've been diving into interesting work in recent weeks, which I'll write about in some future posts. Meanwhile, I'm sharing the recording of my latest talk ▶️ …

03.06

Finding Culprits I'm generally quite a negative person, as you may have already noticed, but there's one thing I'm very sensitive about. I get really triggered when someone …

29.05

May 28. Bereke Android Chapter Meetup #1 Spoke yesterday at the office of guys from Bereke Bank at an internal Android meetup as the only invited guest. Such an honor, I even felt my own importance. …

29.05

USB debugging I love Android development for the fact that here some most basic thing like connecting a phone to a computer can just randomly not work. Well, how? Ok, I've …

24.05

JetBrains vs Google While I'm consuming news about both I/O and KotlinConf only from third parties, haven't gotten to the originals, waiting for it to settle. But even just passing …

android kotlin dev

16.05

About packages Historically, all Jetpack libs are in androidx.* packages and they're hard to perceive outside the Android context. For Google to show the seriousness of their …

15.05

Google and KMP So, Google now officially recommends KMP. However, we've suspected this for a long time, we've seen how they added its support to some Jetpack libs. Sounds hype …

android kotlin dev

06.05

Improving Legibility with the .not() Function Classic AndroidWeekly browsing at the beginning of the week is almost always great. What could be better than reading some harmful advice. Especially about code …

01.05

April 27. beetech conf 2024 First time I was as a speaker at such a big conference. Compared to smaller halls, here there were spotlights in my face, because of which I couldn't see …

25.04

Icons in fonts I love this stuff. Thank God mobile somehow avoided this mania of stuffing icons into fonts. Although designers still mess up in Figma, and developers export …

18.04

News from Google I/O Still peeking with one eye at what's happening on the internet. And there comrade Grishka on Reddit made quite a strong butthurt. Wrote a clone of the …

01.04

BeeTech Conf 2024 And here's the second announcement. On April 27th I'll also speak at our offline conference in Almaty. I'll be talking about our experience implementing a …

29.03

Why Android projects are so complex Here on Reddit a guy came, says that in this Android of yours the project is too complex and here in our Rust we created a main file and off we go. They threw …

android kotlin dev

27.03

Podlodka talk Spoke at Podlodka yesterday morning. Turned out pretty well, I think. By my own feelings, I was quite confident. If I compare it to the offline talk at DevFest, …

25.03

Compose and design systems And this is a very good article, if you ignore all the author's attempts to not offend anyone with words. But those are the times nowadays. Last year we …

android kotlin dev ux

21.03

Extra Pass for Podlodka As a speaker I have an extra pass for the season Podlodka Android Crew about app performance, which will take place from March 25 to 29. If interested, post …

21.03

ViewModel and init I came across the first article in a series of best practices for working with ViewModel. Looks very similar in style to something from Google, which got me …

android kotlin dev

01.03

Time Today we have something like a mini apocalypse here. Besides the fact that February is already a leap year, they also decided to extend it by an hour, one-time …