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Join me at Track 1 and let's dive into Android XR! 🚀
Your wrist buzzes. — with Carlos Mota (@cafonsomota). Full abstract here: lisbon.droidcon.com/sessions #dclx26
ALT Speaker card for Carlos Mota: Beyond the Screen: Building for Android XR, at droidcon Lisbon 2026.
Join us on the main stage for the #dclx26 fireside chat:
👉 AI in Production - What Changed, What Broke, and What’s Next
🤖 Made with AI
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See you tonight, Coimbra! 👋💙
Today we climb into AI together at Developer Stories: AI Innovations.
🎤 Akshay Chordiya: Thriving in an AI era
🤖 Mohit Sarveiya: Deep Dive into Claude Code
🕡 18:30
📍 IPN, Edifício C, Sala Nonio, Coimbra
Time to update your Android skills 🚀
We've just released a new official Android skill that can be used to statically analyse your #JetpackCompose code for performance improvements. ⚡️
Install it, and ask your agent to run the skill on your code. 🧑💻
We've seen some good results running it internally - give it a try and let us know any feedback!
github.com/android/skills/tr…
As we're getting better models, I couldn't agree more:
- "Skills of today will be in the models of tomorrow"
If you haven't tried it yet, it's time to switch to Flash 3.7 🚀
Evals are to skills what integration tests are to code. 🤖
Official Android skills intentionally target fast-moving knowledge gaps that SOTA models miss. Read our latest blog to see how we test them and why hoarding basic skills wastes your tokens → goo.gle/4xgceaE
ALT Code snippet showing an Android skill evaluation test for a horizontal pager.
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SL2T is our breakthrough sign language-to-text model powering new features for Deaf and hard of hearing users on @Android.
Starting with American Sign Language-to-English on Pixel 11, people can sign directly into Gboard and Live Transcribe instead of typing.
On the day of the eclipse, it's important to remember where it all started 🤣
#AndroidDev #Eclipse
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We recorded a special episode of Android Developers Backstage to celebrate 5 years of Compose!
youtu.be/HEqXwUm6vd0?is=6XwH…
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The CfS for #dclx26 closes at the end of this week.
Submissions close on July 31. Still planning to submit a talk? Do it now.
sessionize.com/droidcon-lisb…
#AndroidDev #CallForSpeakers
We're live! Join us on Google I/O '26 Recap from @gdgportugal 🙌
youtube.com/watch?v=WR2JUKzR…
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Android went officially Compose First at I/O (Views are in maintenance mode now, it's ok to let go). @cafonsomota (GDE for Android, GDG Coimbra) has you covered 🤖 What's New in Android at Google I/O Recap Portugal 🚀
📅 July 23
📺 Stream: youtube.com/watch?v=WR2JUKzR…
Great to see Google launching new -cli tools!
Direct link to the repo:
- github.com/Google-Health-API…
The @googlehealth API got a CLI! ghealth is an open-source CLI for your Fitbit Air. You can now pull 40 health metrics from the terminal or pipe them straight into your AI agent.
Pull sleep breakdowns and heart rate data into context. Use `--detail` flag on sleep gives you per-stage data (awake, deep, REM), which is useful for spotting patterns week over week.
```
npx skills add Google-Health-API/google-health-cli
ghealth setup
```
Setup takes a few minutes. Wizard handles GCP project, OAuth, scopes.
Protect your users from the midnight glare! If you are using Google Maps in an app with dark theme support, here is how to properly style it to match your UI:
medium.com/@cafonsomota/b11f…
#AndroidDev #GoogleMaps
Norway is officially banning generative AI tools in elementary schools (grades 1–7) to protect basic skills like reading, writing, and math. They’re even pushing to bring more physical books back into classrooms.
Xsphere: as AI becomes a part of daily life, should schools ban it early on or teach kids how to use it responsibly from day one? What are your thoughts about this?
the-decoder.com/norway-bans-…
