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  • Hi! Professional android dev here who has done some work on migrating an app to foldable:

    Apps don’t guess. If they’re using XML they make specific layouts for a given width of screen.

    If they’re using compose it’s even easier: the entire UI library is built for adaptive layouts. The main issue is a lot of apps are not in compose UI (or not entirely) - and material 3 has excellent components but it’s even less widely used.

    Tldr: tech debt

    A potential cause of the wonkiness is explicitly setting resizeableActivity="false" in the app manifest.





  • If you want devs to make apps without any monetization you’re limiting the number of devs that will develop for your platform.

    Free only means you only allow passion projects that people work on as a side project or only the developers rich enough to have retired already.

    Nobody who is struggling to get by can spend all their time developing a free app that has 0 monetization.

    So they monetize on Google Play.

    If you care about breaking Google’s control of Android you should cheer on another paid marketplace, especially one out of the clutches of Amazon.






  • “I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don’t.”

    • Paul Verhoeven, director of Starship Troopers

    The movie makes it clear that:

    1. The bugs were responding to human colonization
    2. Humans fired the first shots
    3. The government is lying to everyone claiming the bugs are mindless. They overjoyed shouts of the soldiers when they learn the opposite is true - is only because they learn that the bugs are terrified.
    4. The endless over the top propaganda is supposed to be a pretty fuckin heavy clue that it’s a fascist state.