When Xcode Cloud's Free 25 Hours Quietly Run Out at Month's End — Field Notes on Measuring and Defending Compute Time
Before Xcode Cloud's free compute allowance drains at month's end and your builds sit queued, measure where it goes. Practical field notes on pulling usage from the App Store Connect API, stopping wasteful builds early, and trimming test runs to keep CI inside budget.
The Day Generation, Device, and Internal-Test Shipping Became One Step — What I Refused to Hand Over
AI Studio now turns a text prompt into a Kotlin/Compose app and carries it through the emulator, a real device, and Google Play's internal test track from one screen. Behind that convenience sits a question: how much of the moment of shipping do you hand to the machine, and what do you keep in your own hands? Here is where I draw the line as a solo developer running several apps, and the implementation that holds that boundary.
Running Pre-Release Checks Without Opening the IDE — Designing the Android CLI as the Verification Gate of an Unattended Pipeline
How to slot Android CLI v1.0 into an unattended pipeline as its verification gate — three layers of checks, an exit-code contract, and a density-by-locale matrix, sized for an indie developer's day-to-day.
When StoreKit 2 Users Say They Paid but Can't Access — Field Notes on Subscription Entitlement Drift
StoreKit 2 subscriptions are harder to operate than to implement. This is a record of the drift between currentEntitlements, subscription.status, and server notifications — and the reconcile logic that finally stopped the support tickets.
Letting Users Switch the App's Language Without Touching Their Device Language — Notes on Android Per-App Language
How to implement in-app language switching on Android with AppCompatDelegate.setApplicationLocales and locales_config, plus the gotchas around pre-API-33 compatibility, activity recreation, and AdMob, from an implementation point of view.
The Back Button Showed an Interstitial Sometimes, Not Others — Rewriting Nested ifs Into a List of Independent Guards
Interstitial display on back press was unstable because nested if statements hid the priority between conditions. Here is how I split it into reason-returning guards and generated tests from a decision table.
Designing Safe Background Tasks with the Managed Agents API
Antigravity 2.0's Managed Agents API launches an agent in an isolated Linux environment with a single API call, handling reasoning, tool use, and code execution. Convenient, but left unattended it invites runaways and cost overruns. Here is a design for running it safely as a background task.
Generating Multilingual Release Notes with the Managed Antigravity Agent via the Gemini API
A hands-on record of building a pipeline that turns git commit logs into multilingual App Store and Google Play release notes using the Managed Antigravity Agent, now in public preview through the Gemini API.
Stop Adding a Ternary Every Time a New iPhone Ships: A Table-Driven Resolution Design
Every time a new resolution arrived—iPhone Air, 17 Pro—I was bolting another screen-size ternary onto a 29-branch pile. Here is how I reshaped that into a table-driven design where adding the next device is a one-line data change, with the actual Swift from my wallpaper apps.
Unifying In-App Review Prompts Across 5 Apps with Antigravity Editor — A Few Days of Notes
Notes from a few days spent unifying SKStoreReviewController trigger conditions across five iOS wallpaper apps I run as an indie developer, using Antigravity Editor's multi-file editing to bring the logic onto one shared coordinator.
Two Weeks of Letting Antigravity Translate Localizable.xcstrings Across 8 Languages
A two-week log of letting Antigravity draft 8-language translations for new keys added to Localizable.xcstrings. What I delegated, what I kept under my own judgment, the unexpected behaviors, and how I reconciled drafts against the existing translation corpus.
Two Weeks of Letting Antigravity's Browser Sub-Agent Handle My Weekly AdMob Mediation Review
A field record of letting Antigravity's Browser Sub-Agent handle the weekly mediation waterfall review inside the AdMob console for two weeks. What I delegated, what I kept manual, the unexpected behaviors, and what the freed-up time actually surfaced.