Tor Norbye

@tornorbye.bsky.social

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I lead engineering for Android developer tools and libraries at Google. Opinions my own.

A screenshot showing a snippet of a conversation I had with Gemini in Android Studio where I had asked it to help fix some code, and it asked me to respond with the contents of the file in question -- instead of just reading it itself. I'm reminding it it can do that, which it then proceeded to do.
Screenshot of the new agent tab in Gemini in Android Studio showing the input prompt and sample queries
Screenshot of the magnification shortcut setting on Android which is how you can enter a mode where pinch gestures magnifies everything
Screenshot of the web page for next week's "What's new in Android development tools" talk at Google I/O, airing Wednesday May 21, 2025 at 10am Pacific time.
Screenshot of Android Studio 1.0 in dark theme with the source editor on the right, and multi-configuration layout preview on the right showing a layout across a variety of devices.
A screenshot of a lint unit test with a multiline literal string, seemingly using a single dollar sign in the string. But it's not a real dollar sign, it's a unicode lookalike.
Screenshot of "account deactived" screen shown once I clicked to delete my account.