Rebecca Franks
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🤓 @AndroidDev Rel Eng at @Google in 🇬🇧 on #JetpackCompose 💬 Opinions are my own
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Ah Cape Town property market... R4.2mil for a burnt down house marketed as a "Restoration Opportunity" 😂 A true gem
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I'm very excited to share that I'm joining
@Google
in March as an
@AndroidDev
Relations Engineer for Jetpack Compose and UI 😃
Oh and
@JoshLiebe
and I are also moving to London in the next few days! 🇬🇧 😱
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OMG 😎 this MotionLayout Editor in 4.0 Canary 1 is so cool! 😍 You can visualize and run your animation in Android Studio! 🧡Thanks
@camaelon
@johnhoford
and team 🥳
#AndroidDevSummit
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🧞♀️ We've released a new cheat sheet for Animations in Compose! Yay! ✨
🔖A reference page for common animation patterns in
#JetpackCompose
Download the PDF version here ⤵️
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I'm so excited! 💃✨ The feature I've been working on for a while at
@over
has shipped to the
@GooglePlay
store 🤩 The Mask Tool allows you to erase parts of a layer (text, images or shapes) ✏️ You can remove backgrounds of images or make some cool effects like below👇
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PSA: Telling a women at an event that it's amazing to see a female speaker who is so technical and smart not like other ladies he has seen, is not a compliment. 🙄 😪
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Today I discovered
@googledevs
training material for Android. Slide decks, Videos, Practical Workbooks and source code.😱 THIS IS *GOLD*! 🥇
Overview:
Slides:
Videos:
Workbook:
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HOW IS THIS ALL I NEED FOR A RECYCLABLE LIST? 😭 WHAT EVEN IS ANDROID DEV ANYMORE 🥲
#JetpackCompose
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It's my birthday! I'm 29 today🌈 It has been a great day so far with
@JoshLiebe
pulling out all all the stops to make me a watermelon cake 🍉🎂😮
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I'm 30 today! 🎈 Not really how I imagined I'd be spending my birthday this year, but happy to be healthy and alive 💜 thanks for lovely gifts 🤩
@JoshLiebe
@JessKa_F
@Paperkutz_SA
@GDGJohannesburg
😘
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Humbled to be mentioned in the Developer Keynote by
@jasontitus
at
#GoogleIO
today for my work on
@bookdash
😮😬
#ShareTheJourney
#IO18
#AfricaAtIO18
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The best thing I did for my career (so far) was to start my blog and speak at meetups & conferences. I've learnt more because of it, made many new friends, and felt much more excited in my career because of it.
Highly recommended 💯
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I am happy to announce: I am now a
@GoogleDevExpert
in
@AndroidDev
! First in JHB, and first lady in Africa!
#GDE
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Looking for a Senior engineer with 12+ years Kotlin experience.
DM me.
Kotlin is turning 10! 🎉
It’s been almost 10 years since Kotlin was announced. None of the steps we’ve taken would have happened without you! We want to know how it has affected your life – share your story with the hashtag
#10yearsofKotlin
!
Details ⬇️
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I'M SO EXCITED!🤪 Announcing my first
@Pluralsight
course is now live! 📺😮
Learn all about how to use ConstraintLayout and the Android Studio Layout Editor here 👇🏽 (also there is a free trial for those interested!)
🚀
#ConstraintLayout
#AndroidDev
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I added a harmony mode color picker to the repo this week, it also works on desktop ✨
Let me know what you think and if you find any bugs🐛
#JetpackCompose
#AndroidDev
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When I die, I want my gravestone to read:
"Indexing paused due to batch update"
So that everyone can be confused and feel my pain that I've read that message every single day for many years. 💀
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With the leftover chocolate from yesterday's bake, I finally used my Android mould and made some cute chocolates 🤤🍫
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I did it! 🎉 My submission to the
#AndroidDevChallenge
with
#JetpackCompose
🐶🐕
Now this has made me want to adopt a puppy 😭
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Petition to remove the usages of "Foo" and "Bar" for explaining any kind of programming problem 🙅♀️ Concepts and problems are so much easier to understand & apply when practical examples are used ☑️ Please can we rather not use FooBar 🙏
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The most satisfying pull request I've done lately.... Removing old architecture which I spent months migrating to a new one 👌
* giant sigh of relief *
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New guide just dropped 🫳🎤
We've released a new quick guide to common animations in
#JetpackCompose
..
This should (hopefully) help you quickly understand some of the APIs available to you to make pretty animations 🧞 💥
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Github Actions: You can cancel in progress builds with the new (to me) concurrency variable.
Just add the cancel-in-progress: true, and any new pushes to the same branch will cancel old builds. 💸
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I love writing code. Seriously. It's so satisfying to make something out of nothing.
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I'm so happy, we are starting to rollout a new feature in the Over Android app today - Blend Modes! 🌈 It has been a loooong time in the making and a big team effort to get this done 💻 I might actually shed a tear about this one 😂😱😢
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Android Engineers to their managers now:
We recently found that the new 2021 M1 MacBooks cut our Android build times in half.
So for a team of 9, $32k of laptops will actually save $100k in productivity over 2022. The break-even point happens at 3 months.
TL;DR Engineering hours are much more expensive than laptops!
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Me working with the Keyboard APIs on Android
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Want to create a Bitmap from your Composable? We've added new functionality to Compose to be able to redirect rendering into .Picture, which can then be used to create a Bitmap and share it ✨
#JetpackCompose
More info:
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Hi. My name is Rebecca and I just spent the whole day fighting with RxJava schedulers 😬😭
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I recently got the new MacBook Pro 16 inch 😍Absolutely love the keyboard, much more of an improvement from the previous one. Will be giving it a proper testing soon (AKA Android Studio) now that I'm back at work.
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Received the cutest present from the
@GoogleDevExpert
and
@AndroidDev
team 🧙♀️ a little levitating pot 🪴 I don't have a plant for it yet, but this droid decided to take it for a spin 😂🪄
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The realisation that little green squares don't make me a better or worse developer
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This may not be new for most people, but I only just learnt about this feature 🙈
Instead of adding logs to show when a certain part of your code has been hit for debugging, you can enable a "breakpoint hit" message and disable suspending your application at that point. ✨
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Android Developer in Google office :D
✨ Made a LEGO box generator with DALL-E 3 so you can generate any LEGO box you can think of:
🧱
Like 1) the canals of Amsterdam, 2) a SpaceX base on Mars or 3) a MacBook Pro 16"
Unofficial parody
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I'm 28 today. I remember turning 18 like it was yesterday. 😮 Can't wait for the next 10! 🌈🎂🎉
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Recently went back to South Africa for a very important occasion 💍
Josh and I got married surrounded by family and friends 💕👰. I might be biased, but it was possibly the best day ever! 😁
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Am I the only one who does this? Leaving TODOs where I need to pick up from tomorrow 🤓
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Keeping on brand, I now have pink hair and I love it more than my website changes 😜 💇
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Update! 📸
There is a new, better way to get a bitmap from a Composable in Compose 💅
Using the new GraphicsLayer APIs, we can call record on a GraphicsLayer - and toBitmap() on it, instead of needing to use the Android Picture class.
#JetpackCompose
Want to create a Bitmap from your Composable? We've added new functionality to Compose to be able to redirect rendering into .Picture, which can then be used to create a Bitmap and share it ✨
#JetpackCompose
More info:
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I managed to tidy up my cable mess underneath my desk, so much better and all it took was some velcro tape 😂
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I baked a Cookies and Cream
@Oreo
cake today in anticipation of the
#AndroidO
announcement 🤪🍪 the icing is delicious 😍
#AndroidOreo
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It's been so lovely to have the Compose
@AndroidDev
Rel team in London this week 🥰 Catching up and hanging out with everyone has been such fun💚
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I just published Android: Using Physics-based Animations in Custom Views (SpringAnimation) 👩🏻🔬
#AndroidDev
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📣 We know you are VERY excited for shared element transitions in
#JetpackCompose
, so we've released guidance on how to create them! 🤩
⚠ The APIs are experimental - send us your feedback or bugs 🕵 and we'd love to see what you've built? 💕
@doris4lt
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👋 Twitter, do you know of any remote Android Engineer positions available? I know a few great Android Engineers looking for remote work and would love to help them out. Please reply to this tweet if you are hiring for remote developers or DM me! Thanks 🙏
Retweets appreciated
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Did you know? When debugging with Bitmaps in Android Studio, you can click on the "View Bitmap" option next to the variable and your current in-memory bitmap will render nicely for you to inspect what it looks like at that point 🖼
#AndroidDev
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Also my first blog post under the
@AndroidDev
's medium account 🎉 😀
Learn how to make Custom Canvas Animations in Compose 🪄 and share your drool-worthy animations with me 🤤
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Today is the day 🤓 Last time I'll need to wear glasses! See you all on the other side, in 4K hopefully 🤞
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Flow Layouts aren't just useful for flowing to the next row or column, but they can also be used for creating grids by using maxItemsInEachRow! I made a fun little example of using it
#JetpackCompose
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When I first started my blog, I was afraid of using pink for fear of the site being "too girly" for development related content.
Now my blog and themes across social are all pink and I love it. 💗💅🏽
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Today I found my old Linear Algebra University notes. I absolutely loved maths in uni & school. Little did I know that matrices are used so much in image processing and that I'd be needing this knowledge 10 years later 🖼️😅
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I won a giant Android squishable at
#DevFestNYC
😀 so happy! Now to figure out how to bring it home to SA 😂🇿🇦
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I wrote Java today after not writing it for probably about 2 years. Took me about 5 min to figure out why my code wasn't compiling, turns out I was just missing the `new` keyword 🤦
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As Android developers, we should just live with "Do Not Keep Activities" enabled. So many bugs are exposed with the option on.
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My home office is taking shape ♥️ I've added the pictures above my desk, I spray painted the frames rose gold and put them up today 🍍🍉🍦
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Upgraded my keyboard to include some Android desserts 🍩🍨🍪
It's probably going to be a nightmare to remove 😂🤷
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@JakeWharton
@Square
@CashApp
Back to Square one? 🥁🥁
Haha sorry, I couldn't help myself. Congrats and enjoy the new/old job!
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Wow, first time I've ever gotten a message from a recruiter about a Head of Engineering role 😄 Normally people send me roles for a Junior Engineer 😐
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By far the coolest business card I've had... Pity I never know what to do with them 😅
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My new desk setup 💕 Finally got a nice sit/stand desk (so much more space!) and an ergonomic mouse. Show me your setup!
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Yay! 🤩 I finished week 2 of
#AndroidDevChallenge
- countdown timer app.
Proud of the animated bubble background I managed to make 😍Animating in compose requires a bit of a mind shift from previous View animation - but I think its a lot easier for the typical animations 👏
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This was fun 🤣
Today I reached the next level of remote work excellence. 🏅
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Wow, a speaker photo of me from
#KotlinEverywhere
that I can actually use 😂 This is a first 🎉 thanks
@GDGJohannesburg
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Got my first AndroidX contribution in! ✨ Coming soon to a release near you - a bunch of pre-defined Easing functions in
#JetpackCompose
to make your animation life a bit easier 😁
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I remember as a kid going to the library & I would always get sweet cookbooks. I never made any of them, as the recipes always required thermometers & boiling sugar. But I would just read the recipes and dream of one day making them 😆 Well, today I successfully made nougat 💪
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Netflix recommendations are surprisingly on point today: Mother / Android and the second recommendation is Manifest 😅
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🚨 New documentation alert! ✨
We've released some new docs on Images in Compose, covering some common use cases for manipulating them pixels 🤓
Take a look and let us know what you think! 🖼
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I don't really use shortcuts. I click the green run button every time 😄
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Took the Android Associate Developer Exam this past week - thank goodness I passed 😜😁
#NeverStopLearning
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The next few weeks will mark the end of my time at Over /
@GoDaddy
. It has been a fun 4 years of building the app from the ground up, being featured on Google Play, and getting acquired. I've learnt so much and enjoyed working with these incredibly smart & kind humans 💛
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My remote work advice: do whatever you want.
Whether that's working from the couch, taking a nap to get energy, taking a midday shower or working from bed.
If you make strict rules on yourself, it's like being in a normal office so what's the point? Find what works for you 👍
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All I want for Christmas is a shirt with this printed on it 👇
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I don't have a SoundCloud 🤣 ...... buuuuut I do have a course on Pluralsight about ConstraintLayout if you want to learn more about
#AndroidDev
😅
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Omg! 😱 We won Best Consumer Solution for
#MTNAppAwards
🤩 so happy! Congrats to the whole
@over
team 😍
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