Updated the prayer timings calculation app to now work on macOS, watchOS, desktop (jvm), web (compose), and command line (macOS and Linux, and, in theory, Windows) - code here: github.com/ahmedre/prayer… #dcEgy22 #androiddev

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile is an SDK for iOS and Android app development. It offers all the combined benefits of creating cross-platform and native apps. Join tonight“Kotlin Multiplatform Beyond iOS and Android”with ahmed el-helw 9pm live on YouTube: youtu.be/LZRsfDNR2Zg

We recently migrated one of our older apps from Gson to Moshi - here are some things we learned that make this migration easier and safer - helw.net/2023/01/31/tip… #androiddev

I only recently realized that you can share Compose ui with the web without wasm - wrote a short post about it here - helw.net/2023/06/04/usi… #kmp #androiddev

Inspired by a recent post from Kaushik Gopal, wrote a post about performance considerations when scripting with #kotlin helw.net/2023/07/03/per…

Help us welcome ahmed el-helw & Abdulahi Osoble to the #dcnyc23 speaker lineup 🚨 They'll dive into the concept of using a design system to bootstrap a server-driven #UI implementation using# Compose on #Android & SwiftUI on #iOS. Full abstract: nyc.droidcon.com/ahmed-el-helw/

Slides from my talk at droidcon NYC with ahmed el-helw on "Bootstrapping simple server driven UI from a design system" are up. Thanks to everyone who attended and I hope you enjoyed it speakerdeck.com/kadirkid/boots…

Things not to do as an #androiddev - supporting 1960s versions of Android that no one uses anymore.

Super excited about tomorrow's event with amazing speakers 🤩! Join us linkedin.com/events/kmpandc… #KMP #ComposeMultiplatform #JetpackCompose

Wrote a short post about automatically translating Android strings to other languages on the command line using aichat - micro.helw.dev/posts/2024-01-… #androiddev

Manara مؤخرًا أطلقوا مبادرة لتوفير فرص وظيفية للـ software engineers في فلسطين! هالمبادرة بتهدف انها تجمع من هون لـ 31 March مية تعهد و إلتزام من شركات عالمية، كبيرة، ستارت أبس انهم يوظفوا على الأقل شخص واحد من فلسطين، techjobsforpalestine.com

I have been migrating more projects to Compose on the Web these days, and so wanted to share some random things I learned - helw.net/2024/05/13/tid… #kotlin #compose

I've recently been playing with Coil3 on Compose Multiplatform and wrote up a blog on extending the pipeline: kadirkid.dev/posts/coil3/in…

Spent some time figuring out how to let a single gesture interaction work across multiple Composable functions and wrote about it: helw.net/2024/07/01/sin… #androiddev #JetpackCompose

It was only very recently that I learned, from reading this article - justinjoyce.dev/developer-work…, that just like `cd -` returns you to the previous directory, you can use `git co -` to switch to the previous Git branch. Wrote a short post about it: micro.helw.dev/posts/2024-07-… #cli #git

Dynamic duo alert at #dcnyc24! 🍎 ahmed el-helw & Abdulahi Osoble will go over strategies, tooling, and problem-solving for binary compatibility, dependency changes, #Gradle plugins, & code sharing between #Android & #iOS. nyc.droidcon.com/ahmed-el-helw/

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نظراً لكثرة الأسئلة عن التطبيقات التي يشرف عليها مركز تفسير للدراسات القرآنية فنود أن نوضح التالي: ▪️ مركز تفسير يشرف الآن على تطبيق وحي وحي - تطبيق القرآن الكريم وتطبيق سورة تطبيق سورة وتطبيق مفصل تطبيق مفصل وتطبيق غريب، وتطبيق الكشاف، وهذه التطبيقات هي التي يعمل

I wrote a post about something I just learned - One cannot simply share String indices from #KMP with Swift. helw.net/2025/01/19/pit… #kotlin #androiddev

Targeting Android 35 soon? I wrote up some quick notes that may be useful when implementing edge to edge - helw.net/2025/04/06/qui… #androiddev

I spent some time understanding why Android 16 causes numbers in Arabic apps to go from Arabic-Hindi (١،٢،٣) to Latin (1,2,3). I documented my adventures in this blog post about Arabic numbers and regions - helw.net/2025/05/31/ara… #androiddev