This is what Gemini generated about all our conversations so far π€©
This is what Gemini generated about all our conversations so far π€©
Mobile is dead.
Design is cooked.
Programmers are done.
Funny how the things AI supposedly killed are exactly the ones people are thriving in more than ever.
My real honest take is that you likely cannot find any other Compose course like this one out there.
That is the truth.
This course is the culmination of several years of careful exploration and diving deep into Jetpack Compose β€οΈβπ₯
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βMobile dev is deadβ
Meanwhile: more apps published to the stores than ever, more users than ever, more phones than ever.
As long as people use phones, mobile development will exist.
A few shots
Backgrounds became an order of magnitude better on the platform now.
Just added support for lots of beautiful ones!
Go test them π₯πΈπ±
Software devs coming to teach you clean architecture in 2026.
Now more than ever
Just realised something.
This type of feature should be in ScreenshotWhale. It just makes a lot of sense.
A predefined set of backgrounds with fancy gradients that you can apply to either a single screenshot or all screenshots in a project.
Not in my plans to lie showing a fake % improvement in conversions if you use screenshots created with ScreenshotWhale.
Some products are doing that.
What Iβll do is give you the best tool possible to achieve the goal. Then you decide if itβs good enough to make a difference π€·ββοΈ
More and more people are starting to realise that nobody wants to consume generated content in social media.
Being authentic has always been the only way, and now more than ever. Sharing real stuff and learning together with your audience.
Just finished another quality of life improvement that users will welcome.
Save requests should be way faster now π€©
Before, save was sending the full list of devices, with all their screenshots and layers. Now it calculates deltas and only sends the affected layers.
Early feedback from power users is key for any product. It helps you shape it up in a more appropriate/realistic/efficient direction, instead of guessing.
Give users what they want.
Iβm living this myself with ScreenshotWhale. It is evolving so much lately ππ
Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0: Unified Preview annotation, Navigation 3, and Stable Compose Hot Reload π
blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/...
Believe me when I say that your users couldnβt care less about your app being vibe coded or not.
They just care about the value it provides them.
They need to be. And we must advocate for that.
If everyone is using AI at work, it makes no sense to forbid it in tech interviews.
Worked on something incredibly cool last night π
Let me introduce automatic internationalization of your App Store and Play Store screenshots with ScreenshotWhale β¨π₯
Nothing good is instant. Real value compounds when you keep showing up.
I couldβve made ScreenshotWhale paid-only from day one. Instead, I let people try it, feel the value, and decide.
I think itβs finally at that point now. Fingers crossed π€
Most developers are not designers, and that is totally fine. This is where a powerful drag and drop editor shines.
It gives you structure so screenshots look consistent and intentional, helping you bootstrap solid App Store assets fast without a designer.
Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop π
android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/01/llm-...
Thatβs only a consequence of how you are implementing it.
The only difference between updating a state to show / hide a small component within the same screen, and doing the same but to show / hide a full screen to the user, is the size of the component.
Some people mentioned Fastlane screenshot generation as a better alternative to ScreenshotWhale and other similar services.
Fastlane is great, but it is not a visual drag and drop design experience. That is the big difference, if you ask me.
Ok. The Thinking Game is so good. Go watch it.
youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ
Navigation state is also UI state.
What screen to display at any time is literally UI state. Donβt think of it differently.
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My friend @jorgecastillo.dev launched ScreenshotWhale, which generates professional App Store screenshots in minutes.
It provides auto internationalization for supporting multiple languages, quick switches between templates, and a smart AI generator for your full project.
screenshotwhale.com
ScreenshotWhale reached its first 100 users. This is going quick.
Iβm already working in the next feature: a big improvement for an already existing one. Will share more when that work is complete.
Going for the first 200 πΈπ²
Itβs wild that some popular App Store and Play Store mockup tools still make you manage local save files. In 2026.
Obviously ScreenshotWhale stores everything in the cloud, as it should be βοΈ
I donβt think software engineer roles are going to disappear. Tech has always evolved quickly, we just need to adapt and keep learning.
Donβt let it overwhelm you, It is actually motivating.
Templates are now 50% cheaper on screenshotwhale.com for limited time π³
Templates are one of the entry points to the platform, along with subscriptions. They give you full access to the editor.
Makes sense to get more people using the platform.