Notes from Max Shved on Android development, building Clarity (habit tracker & mood journal app), AI-assisted dev workflows, and shipping software.
A look at the @Preview boilerplate problem in Android Studio — why it scales badly, why bitmap cache bloat slows Studio to a crawl, and how compose-auto-preview reduces it to a single annotation.
An honest side-by-side of Clarity and seven of the biggest habit tracker and mood journal apps — who each one is for, and where Clarity fits.
A first post — what Mash Lab is, what I'm shipping, and what to expect from this blog.