Björn Kechel
bjornson.bsky.social
Björn Kechel
@bjornson.bsky.social
Android dev, father, climber
Reposted by Björn Kechel
One interesting outcome of AI agents being so fast at prototyping:

It can take longer to have a meeting about building a prototype than to build it!

So... why not just build it, then show it and talk about it?
September 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Does anyone need a ticket for the berlin #droidcon ?
I can probably not attend and have the ticket already. Looks like I can change the attendee name without a problem.
September 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Björn Kechel
Man, I see where people are coming from, but as an artist, with a lit degree, I don't think it's a good move to say "it makes people less prejudiced" or "it improves critical thinking." Better to just say art is good because we're all here on this sinking ship and it's nice to have a band playing.
April 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Reposted by Björn Kechel
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Reposted by Björn Kechel
📮 Posten Bring, the 377-year-old Norwegian national postal service, used KMP to centralize business logic into a shared codebase, streamline workflows, and cut the time to implement new services from months to days.

Explore their journey in our case study: www.jetbrains.com/help/kotlin-...
April 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Dear #AndroidDev at #Renault the next time some manager wants you to send ads over the charging-mode notification channel and asks to send it to everyone, even the ones that explicitly do not want notifications about any offers.... just stay strong and say "No".
April 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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🚀 Big news for Android devs using Jetpack Compose! Media3 just dropped version 1.6.0, and it includes a brand new artifact: media3-ui-compose! Finally, seamless and customizable video playback directly in your Compose apps. 🎬 #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #Media3
March 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reposted by Björn Kechel
I'm currently looking for a new fit remote, Android development contract role.

I have over 15 years of Android development experience, and bring lots of positive energy to the team.

Although I'm based in the UK, I'm set up to work for companies based anywhere.

I have immediate availability.
January 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reposted by Björn Kechel
Today marks the ten year anniversary for Android Studio! 🎉

We released version 1.0 on the morning of December 8th 2014:
android-developers.googleblog.com/2014/12/andr...
December 8, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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I'm still working on upgrading Pocket Casts to Android 15 with edge-to-edge support. I found you can deploy to multiple emulators with each run. Having SDK 24 (our lowest), 30, 34, and 35 seems to be the best combination to catch issues.
December 4, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Suddenly finding a lot more of my former following accounts from twitter :-) I Like it here, hoping it stays this way
December 3, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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Kotlin 2.1.0 STABLE is out! github.com/JetBrains/ko...
November 28, 2024 at 1:27 AM