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david_allisonyesterday at 12:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

We use Roborazzi[0], which is an excellent screenshot library, but:

* We target minSdk 24

* We're still using XML views

* We target a large variety of form factors

* We have a lot of screens, and these have a lot of configuration options.

I really wish it was "point an agent at it, and walk away", but many screens ended up being hours of iteration with Fable driving my phone/an emulator to produce an acceptable outcome.

Given that my Pixel 9 Pro has system screens which are still broken under edge to edge, it's not an easy change, and takes up time which could have been going towards feature development.

[0] https://github.com/takahirom/roborazzi/


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xethosyesterday at 9:35 PM

A tangent, but a big thank you (to you, and all other developers) for supporting older API levels from someone with devices ranging from Android 8.1 (BlackBerry Key2LE, at minSdk 27) to Android 16 (BlackBerry "Q25", at minSdk 36.1) <3

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voakbasdayesterday at 2:24 PM

Gotta love that Google enforces rules on developers that it won’t even enforce on itself. Such a great look.