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Finally trying out the Android XML layout

So year after year since the dawn of the Android SDK back in 2009 I’ve been making the yearly resolution to try it out. But for one reason or the other I’ve always been putting it off. But not this year. Before the sun goes down for the last time for the year of 2024 let’s make our favorite photo app using the classic Android UI toolkit - The framework with no name - You know that thing where you write XML for layout. Let the fun begin!

objc async selectors

I very recently learned it the hard way that objc selectors can not be async.

Getting started with LiteRT (Tensorflow Lite)

So Google recently renamed TensorflowLite to LiteRT. And yes that was a genius move indeed. Because now for the first time in my life I actually want to try TFLite … yea, I mean LiteRT.

16 years later

So today I completed my 16 years of working professionally. This is a quick summary of the past year.