@HandstandSam
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@GoogleDevExpert for Android & Kotlin. Works at @Square. Previously @Dropbox, @CapitalOne.
Richmond, Virginia
Joined January 2009
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Sam Edwards retweeted
OK, so all I need is M5, 64Gb of RAM, and a plane 😁
JetBrains takes its first step toward Local AI.
MacBook M5 users can set up Junie Local in one click and get a solid agentic experience.
Unlimited & Fully local.
Folks also had some fun presenting it on a plane :)
Check it out & stay tuned for more:
junie.jetbrains.com/local
Sam Edwards retweeted
🗺️ What if AI could learn your app once—and never have to rediscover it?
@HandstandSam introduces Trailblaze, an open-source tool that lets AI agents explore your app, save the path, and replay it without another LLM call.
🔗 eu1.hubs.ly/H0wvKCb0
#AndroidDev #AI #OpenSource #droidConUSA26
Sam Edwards retweeted
I need to write a blog post called:
"It depends" is the answer to every question in software. – at Richmond, VA
Sam Edwards retweeted
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
Thank you @androidweekly for featuring my latest post! handstandsam.com/2026/01/07/…
Sam Edwards retweeted
📢 Kotlin 2.3.0 is out! Here are some of the highlights:
✅Language: More stable and default features, unused return value checker, explicit backing fields, and changes to context-sensitive resolution.
✅Kotlin/JVM: Support for Java 25.
✅Kotlin/Native: Improved interop through Swift export, faster build time for release tasks, C and Objective-C library import in Beta.
✅Kotlin/Wasm: Fully qualified names and new exception handling proposal enabled by default, and new compact storage for Latin-1 characters.
✅Kotlin/JS: New experimental suspend function export, `LongArray` representation, unified companion object access, and more.
✅Gradle: Compatibility with Gradle 9.0 and a new API for registering generated sources.
✅Compose compiler: Stack traces for minified Android applications.
✅Standard library: Stable time tracking functionality and improved UUID generation and parsing.
Learn more: ➡️ kotl.in/2-3-0
Sam Edwards retweeted
Some nice Kotlin/Native related updates:
- Improved interop through Swift export
- C and Objective-C library import is in Beta
- Faster build time for release tasks (up to 40% faster)
#KMP
📢 Kotlin 2.3.0 is out! Here are some of the highlights:
✅Language: More stable and default features, unused return value checker, explicit backing fields, and changes to context-sensitive resolution.
✅Kotlin/JVM: Support for Java 25.
✅Kotlin/Native: Improved interop through Swift export, faster build time for release tasks, C and Objective-C library import in Beta.
✅Kotlin/Wasm: Fully qualified names and new exception handling proposal enabled by default, and new compact storage for Latin-1 characters.
✅Kotlin/JS: New experimental suspend function export, `LongArray` representation, unified companion object access, and more.
✅Gradle: Compatibility with Gradle 9.0 and a new API for registering generated sources.
✅Compose compiler: Stack traces for minified Android applications.
✅Standard library: Stable time tracking functionality and improved UUID generation and parsing.
Learn more: ➡️ kotl.in/2-3-0
Sam Edwards retweeted
Say hello to hot reloading compose resources, supported from CMP 1.10.0-alpha01 🔥
One of the first feature requests from @zsmb13 and @Cypressious
Thanks to Nikita Lipsky 😇
Sam Edwards retweeted
i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human
🧵 what led up to this breaking point
Sam Edwards retweeted
gpt-oss is out!
we made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!)
(and a smaller one that runs on a phone).
super proud of the team; big triumph of technology.
Sam Edwards retweeted
We're having a great time at @droidconNYC and we're excited to see Maestro highlighted on stage by @HandstandSam !
We love seeing the community spreading the word on testing better and faster.
Reminder: if you're around NYC, we're hosting a casual happy hour meetup tonight starting at 4:30 PM — join us: eventbrite.com/e/maestro-hap…
Sam Edwards retweeted
Got plans? Cancel them 🚨 @HandstandSam & Brian are speaking #dcnyc25!
Learn how Block built Trailblaze, an LLM-powered mobile test framework that runs natural language #Android tests at scale. Get your #AndroidDev tickets before it's too late: nyc.droidcon.com/speakers/sa…
Sam Edwards retweeted
IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1 ❤️ Model Context Protocol blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025…
Sam Edwards retweeted
a few times a year i wake up early and can't fall back asleep because we are launching a new feature ive been so excited about for so long.
today is one of those days!
Sam Edwards retweeted
I'm looking to sell my job board, Android Jobs - Androidjobs.io. Simply put … I no longer have the time nor passion to run it.
If you have any interest in it, please let me know, just send me a DM.