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dev.to > nitesh87409 > why-i-built-an-ad-free-android-video-player-to-replace-bloated-alternatives-4nde

Why I built an ad-free Android video player to replace bloated alternatives

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (515+ words) Over the past few years, an annoying trend has taken over the Android ecosystem. Remember when media player apps were just lightweight tools you opened to watch a downloaded movie or an anime episode offline? Fast forward to today, and…...

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dev.to > excalibra > droid-asc-a-high-performance-tool-for-android-reverse-engineering-and-vulnerability-discovery-1ci9

Droid ASC: A High-Performance Tool for Android Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Discovery

15+ hour, 22+ min ago   (309+ words) Article Summary: Droid ASC is a high-performance tool for Android reverse engineering and mobile... Tagged with android, cybersecurity, security, vulnerabilities....

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dev.to > dylanscottmickelson > creating-adaptive-flutter-screens-and-widgets-m8l

Creating Adaptive Flutter Screens and Widgets

16+ hour, 18+ min ago   (334+ words) Flutter enables you to deploy a single application across phones, tablets, desktops, and the web. The... Tagged with flutter, dart, opensource, uidesign....

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dev.to > 3ni8ma > i-built-a-pr-inbox-for-my-phone-so-i-stop-being-the-bottleneck-i1l

I Built a PR Inbox for My Phone So I Stop Being the Bottleneck

17+ hour, 12+ min ago   (989+ words) TL;DR: I was the bottleneck on every pull request. Reviews waited days for me. So I built a PR inbox for my phone. AI summarizes each diff. I swipe right to approve. Built with Expo and Supabase. Costs $0. This…...

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dev.to > devshakib > full-disk-access-was-on-and-macos-still-refused-the-app-55i9

Full Disk Access Was On, and macOS Still Refused the App

17+ hour, 34+ min ago   (858+ words) A Mac app I maintain needs Full Disk Access. It measures disk usage, and most of what is worth measuring sits behind that permission. I switched it on in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Full Disk Access, and the app went…...

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dev.to > pyaephyomaungdev > the-hidden-failure-modes-in-localization-infrastructure-and-why-we-architected-a-local-first-2m5b

The Hidden Failure Modes in Localization Infrastructure (And Why We Architected a Local-First Solution)

21+ hour, 55+ min ago   (195+ words) In scaling cross-platform codebases across Flutter, React, iOS, and Android, localization (i18n) is frequently treated as an operational afterthought. Engineering teams default to Google Sheets, manual CSV exports, or enterprise cloud translation SaaS. To solve this friction at the architectural level,…...

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dev.to > mryadavgulshan > jetpack-navigation-component-in-android-done-correctly-ald

Jetpack Navigation Component in Android — Done Correctly

23+ hour, 22+ min ago   (705+ words) The set of Navigation Component rules I enforce on every Android project — nav graphs, type-safe arguments, back-stack hygiene, and the mistakes that show up in code review. All of it was a navigation problem. None of it had to exist....

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dev.to > tkuenneth > androids-ai-era-hype-vs-architecture-13kf

Android's AI Era: Hype vs. Architecture

1+ day, 8+ min ago   (1692+ words) I have spent the last year and a half building against Android's agentic APIs, not reading about them from a keynote seat. Be nice got an AppFunction so Gemini could invoke createAppPair directly; a few months later, bumping a single…...

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dev.to > eltacrew > i-turned-my-website-directory-into-an-offline-android-app-heres-the-one-sql-trick-that-made-it-1cag

I turned my website directory into an offline Android app. Here's the one SQL trick that made it work

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (212+ words) Here's how that went. That gave me a second problem. On the web version the home page shuffles the featured sites once a day, so it looks alive but stays stable within the day. The server just does that. In…...

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dev.to > pavan_varma_6788ae2c7b08a > i-got-tired-of-using-youtube-for-background-noise-so-i-built-my-own-3d7b

I got tired of using YouTube for background noise, so I built my own

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (27+ words) I've gotten into the habit of putting on some background music or white noise whenever I'm studying... Tagged with ai, webdev, showdev, sideprojects....