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Hunter Stich is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focusing on Android UI and Material Design, currently building the Material Components library at Google. He blends hands-on mobile development with developer advocacy background to improve core UX primitives like FloatingActionButton, BottomAppBar, and bottom sheet behaviors used across Android apps. His open-source contributions to the high-profile material-components-android repo include shapeable FABs, extended FAB updates, and animation fixes that make component interactions smoother and more customizable. With formal training in journalism and Chinese studies, he brings clear communication and cross-cultural perspective to engineering and product collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Linguistics & Culture, Chinese Studies, Chinese Linguistics & Culture, Chinese Studies at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Journalism & Strategic Communications | Chinese Language, COMMUNICATION, JOURNALISM, AND RELATED PROGRAMS, Journalism & Strategic Communications | Chinese Language, COMMUNICATION, JOURNALISM, AND RELATED PROGRAMS at University of North Texas
Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:16 releases, 2 reviews, 164 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hunter made several commits that focused on improving the implementation of Material Design components for Android. The user implemented the Shapeable interface for FloatingActionButton, and updated the extended FAB, and provided improvements and fixes to BottomAppBar's menu and indicator animations. They also modified the bottom sheet to make it clickable to cycle between states.
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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