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Vinay Gaba
Google Developer Expert for Android • Tech Lead Manager @ Airbnb
I've been writing Android code for roughly ~15 years and have helped build world-class consumer products at companies like Airbnb, Snapchat, and Spotify. I currently lead an ambitious AI-first team at Airbnb that maintains critical pieces of our Product Infrastructure. Over the years, I've given numerous tech talks at conferences around the world, sharing knowledge and best practices with the Android community.
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Dispatch Issue #24
💌 In today's Dispatch: What I'm up to after Airbnb? 🤖 Sora Android in 28 days ⚡ More useful Compose stack traces 🧩 Bengaluru Meetup 🍻
Dispatch Issue #23
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🧾 Stop GPL surprises with Licensee ⚖️ ⚡ Gradle config speed rule 🤯 Compose effects order puzzle 🧠 AI vs git bisect
Dispatch Issue #22
💌 In today’s Dispatch: Closing my Airbnb chapter ✨ Swift on Android 🤯 Timezones are complicated ⌛️ Touch me not Composables 👉
Dispatch Issue #21
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🔥 We meet the team behind Firebender 🏋🏻 Easiest one-line win of the year 🤏 Composable scoped View Model's and 🌈 performant way to modify background color
Dispatch Issue #20
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🛼 2D Scrolling 🎣 Prefetching Lists 🔎 Better Compose Debugging & 🏗️ Architecting Persistent UI Elements
Dispatch Issue #19
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 💰 Selling Android apps 🛠️ Metro DI takes the crown, 🚨 AndroidView anti‐pattern exposed & 🔐 Telegram’s hash‐coded file bans
Dispatch Issue #18
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 📸 Screenshot testing pro-tips ✨ Native shadows in Compose, 🤖 Kotlin powering AI SDKs, 📱 Android 16 adaptivity shift & ⚡️ 6× faster transforms
Dispatch Issue #16
💌 In today's Dispatch: 🗑️ Google Play's 47 % app-purge drama, 🛠️ Amazon's shiny new KMP 'App Platform', 🎞️ ADB slow-mo frame-timing captures, 🎨 the theme bug that steals your Column's color, 🤣 'Soft Earnings' and 📊 @Preview-free code-coverage magic.
Dispatch Issue #15
In today's issue, we talk about the 💸 strange hiring market and salaries, 💣 latest BOM drop, 📈 sorting UUIDs and obviously...AI 👂
Dispatch Issue #14
In today's issue, we talk about 🧐 cheating during interviews, 💸 fully transparent salaries, 🪄 Google's big agentic bet, 🕵🏻♂️ committing a Kotlin crime and 🫨 jittery text animations
Dispatch Issue #13
In today's issue, we talk about 🥶 chilly mobile hiring trends, the best Kotlin speaking LLMs 🗣️, another project in the Google graveyard 🪦, shadcn/ui for Android ✨ and learn how to trust time ⏰
Dispatch Issue #12
In today's issue, we talk about 🐦🔥 Swift on Android, learn some mind-boggling facts about naming variables, discuss my recent chat with Kaushik Gopal, and explore how to provide the entire codebase to an LLM.
Dispatch Issue #11 - 'Future of Android' Special
In today's issue, we talk to some Android experts about their hot-takes, predictions, wishes, and advice on how they expect the Android ecosystem to change—and how developers should prepare for that future.
Dispatch Issue # 10
🤯 some mind bending facts about SQLite, "Monotone Cubic Hermite Spline" and buttery smooth animations, a game to improve our Compose knowledge and why return types in Kotlin can be interesting 🤨
Dispatch Issue # 9
🔥 JetBrains' project to bring true hot reload to Compose, share a tip to improve screenshot test reliability using a new CompositionLocal, explore situations when onDispose doesn't get called, and bid farewell to Picasso 👨🏻🎨
Dispatch Issue # 8
💰 New & creative vesting schedules in tech, an amazing 10 year old engineer, a public service announcement and why onGloballyPositioned is feared
Dispatch Issue # 7
🦃 The Turkey that broke your code, advice from Saket Narayan, some personal wins, and strategy for safeguarding composables
Dispatch Issue # 6
😞 The decline of mobile dev, Storybook like tool from JetBrains, the badass developer of SQLite and meeting Annyce Davis
Dispatch Issue # 5
🔤 Learn about Zach Klippenstein, the Android connection to Wordle, creating presentations using Compose, running Android Studio on Android and @ComposableTarget
Dispatch Issue # 4
💪🏻 Power Asserts, XML in Compose, Compose UI previews on web & Airbnb's new screen architecture
Dispatch Issue # 3
🛜 "Server" Composabes, new graphicsLayer API, first-party visibility tracking, and debouncing state updates
Dispatch Issue # 2: Google I/O Special
🍨 Inside scoop from Google I/O, interesting updates from the event & a tip to using Gemini in Android Studio without compromising sensitive IP
Dispatch Issue # 1: Inagural Edition 🚀
🚀 Code structure optimizations, Android memes, New Shared Element Transition APIs, Debugging Compose State & More!
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