Fco Pardo
Fco Pardo
@mcena.bsky.social
Android & JVM developer. Opinions are my own, I don't buy them.
#AndroidDev anybody else getting terrible battery life after the android 16 update?
June 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Pretty sure many Android devs are still around on this platform.

Reply saying hi 👋 so everyone can find you.

This will help people find a big bunch of colleagues to follow 👏👏

RT this for more reach! 🙏
May 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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At @mdevcamp.bsky.social, our own Filip Dolník is flipping the script—bringing the iOS developer’s perspective on using KMP in production. 💡

If you're an #iOSDev exploring #KMP, this is your talk.

Real talk. Real lessons. Real Kotlin on iOS.
📍 Prague
🗓️ June 3
🔗 mdevcamp.eu#filip-dolnik...
mDevCamp 2025: 11th International Conference for Mobile Developers
Join the 11th International Conference for Mobile Developers on June 2-3, 2025, at Holešovice Market. Connect, learn, and experience the future of mobile development!
mdevcamp.eu
April 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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New blog post! If you are a Kotlin or Java Android developer, this one should make you go 🤯.

www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/n...

I'm not even sorry.
Naming is Hard
Before we dive into today’s topic, I would like to make it clear that what follows is specific to how Android, and more precisely the Android RunTime (ART), works. Some of what follows applies to othe...
www.romainguy.dev
December 20, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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throughly enjoying @astrokatie.com & @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social talking cosmology from big bang to universe's end ☺️
i'm so exhausted and this is so fascinating & soothing
on YT & podcast RSS: feeds.simplecast.com/ASAdCBih
youtu.be/L5YO9nmojo4?...
A Podcast About The Entire History Of The Universe
YouTube video by CrashCourse
youtu.be
December 7, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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JetBrains just merged my contribution to the Kotlin standard library. It's a rewrite of String.toFloatOrNull() to eliminate all allocations (~940 per call!) and go 225x faster on a Pixel 6. If you want to see how it was done: github.com/JetBrains/ko...

tl;dr regex out, hand-written parser in
Optimize String.toFloatOrNull() by romainguy · Pull Request #5364 · JetBrains/kotlin
The existing implementation used a regular expression which caused memory allocations, which are expensive on mobile devices. In addition, a custom parser can outperform regular expressions. The ne...
github.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:06 PM