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To Google's credit, post-21 is a much more pleasant experience and requires very little developer time. API desugaring[0] has worked perfectly, their compatibility classes[1] handle most of the common cases, and there's often very little to actually code[2].

[0] https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support-tab...

[1] https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/appc...

[2] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/main/compat/s...

Comment · 1 month ago

Google Play rejected our 2.24.1 release (Aug 31). F-Droid is typically slower, but we don't have to worry about distribution issues.

This is regarding 2.25.0alpha4.

Comment · 1 month ago

We use Roborazzi[0], which is an excellent screenshot library, but:

* We target minSdk 24

* We're still using XML views

* We target a large variety of form factors

* We have a lot of screens, and these have a lot of configuration options.

I really wish it was "point an agent at it, and walk away", but many screens ended up being hours of iteration with Fable driving my phone/an emulator to produce an acceptable outcome.

Given that my Pixel 9 Pro has system screens which are still broken under edge to edge, it's not an easy change, and takes up time which could have been going towards feature development.

[0] https://github.com/takahirom/roborazzi/

Comment · 1 month ago

Team effort, but thank you!! I've just taken the next month and a half off to work on things full time. I'm excited!

The next update won't be huge, (Google required us to make all screens 'edge to edge'[0], which took up most of my time last month). I'm hoping for some solid improvements now that's out the way, once the release pipeline has returned to normal.

Feel free to get in touch if you fancy contributing.

[0] https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/layout/edge-t...

Comment · 1 month ago

AnkiDroid (~17 years old) submitted our latest alpha on Sept 03, 2026, 4:40 am. Still pending review.

Comment · 2 months ago

We've been seeking official clarification from Google on this for over a month. That's what we're seeking here.

It's not clear given Google's policy wording and replies. We've removed the links, and can move forward once clarification has been provided.

Comment · 2 months ago

Worse: there's unpatched RCEs for Modern Warfare II: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10718

Comment · 3 months ago

> Like software, elementary school education is also a pool for adults on the autism spectrum substantially higher than general population average.

Interesting! Do you have a source for this?

Comment · 3 months ago

There's an arena/research report by Ozzie Kirkby and Andy Matuschak at https://memory-machines.com/ which you might find interesting.

I predict that things will be 'good' within the next 5 years, but your intuition is correct (and the SOTA models are often producing worse prompts than older models).

Comment · 4 months ago

I have a large amount, some are occasionally useful when debugging.

Comment · 4 months ago

> Mirrors Edge Catalyst

Are you sure? I played in 2024 on PC and it was playable.

Comment · 5 months ago

We define our API into the Rust via protobufs[0] and some codegen.

The wrapper around these is very lean, FFI-based[1], it's abstracted to a library so Android devs never need to know there's rust/codegen involved.

We then define a light Kotlin-based wrapper around the protobuf-generated API[2]. This is a candidate to move to Kotlin multiplatform in the near future (mostly for test speed improvements).

[0] https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/proto

[1] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android-Backend/blob/a0428...

[2] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/68192585a7ae4...