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A ready-to-use, fully-accessible component library for Compose Multiplatform with customisable components and built-in dark mode.
RevenueCat's engineering blog walks through all four Billing Choice integration scenarios, the external transaction token, and UX compliance rules.
Marcin Moskala explains what LLVM is and how it enables modern languages like Kotlin Native and Rust.
Akshay Nandwana walks through porting the DrawBox drawing library from Android-only to Compose Multiplatform, including a full MVI rewrite.
Ali Sadeghi presents KMPilot, a spec-driven workflow that enforces Clean Architecture across AI-generated Kotlin Multiplatform features.
Juan Hurtado introduces Ghost Serializer, a byte-first KMP JSON library delivering 66% faster Ktor performance with 50% less memory.
Gabor Berenyi shows how to run 3D chess across Android, iOS, desktop, and web in pure Kotlin using Compose Multiplatform and Filament.
Dennis Vorobyov walks through three hard production constraints of running Gemini Nano on-device in an Android app.
Zac Sweers introduces Kempt, a CLI tool that unifies Kotlin, Java, and Rust formatting with git hook integration.
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Libraries & Code
A modern, fully-accessible component library for Compose Multiplatform with copy-paste components and dark mode support.
An Android SDK that blocks third-party tracking SDKs at runtime initialization based on user consent preferences.
A Kotlin Multiplatform drawing SDK for Compose Multiplatform supporting freehand, shapes, annotations, and SVG/JSON/bitmap export.
A library that enforces manifest-declared network allow-lists across all SDK layers, blocking or auditing third-party outbound connections without a VPN or root.
A pre-commit-friendly source formatting pipeline supporting Kotlin, Java, and Rust with license header insertion.
News
JetBrains rebrands Amper as Kotlin Toolchain, now in Alpha, adding JVM library publishing and a global CLI installer.
Google Play announces alternative billing options and a new separated service fee structure launching June 30 in the US, EEA, and UK.
Videos & Podcasts
Anton Malinski demos Emu, a standalone Android device management tool covering emulator control, debugging, network inspection, and AI-driven testing.
Android Developers channel explains Google Play's new billing flexibility options and updated lower fee programs for app developers.
Philipp Lackner explores Android's new AppFunctions API for cross-app communication and natural language command integration.
Firebase shows how to replace SMS OTPs with Phone Number Verification for frictionless, secure Kotlin Android onboarding.
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Marco Gomiero reflects on ten years of his RSS-Parser library, tracing its evolution from Java to Kotlin Multiplatform.
Maia walks through migrating her Android TagSpotter app to KMP across iOS, Desktop, and Android in a weekend using Antigravity and parallel subagents.
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Ivan Mikhailuts explains how he built an Android Studio plugin offering live AGSL shader preview, uniform controls, and full editor support.
James Cullimore shows how to use Compose Previews as the source of truth for screenshot testing across locales, font scales, and string-key display mode.
Jaewoong Eum explains Jetpack Compose internals — compiler transformations, the SlotTable, snapshot state, and the single-pass layout pipeline — traced through AOSP source.
Swapnil Gupta shares an honest 11-week review of Android Journeys powered by Gemini, covering CI setup challenges, test writing lessons, and production results.
Marcin Moskała explains why truly learning Kotlin requires letting go of Java preconceptions rather than treating it as syntactic sugar.
KMP Bits shows how Coil 3 simplifies cross-platform image loading and caching in Compose Multiplatform for Android and iOS.
Jaewoong Eum introduces Compose HotSwan v2, which enables full-screen structural hot reloads in native Jetpack Compose without app restarts.
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Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform library for VIN decoding, validation, and NHTSA API integration, targeting Android, iOS, and JVM.
A Gradle plugin that bakes runtime self-protection into your APK, detecting root, hooks, clones, and tampering entirely on-device.
News
Google announces Android XR Developer Preview 4 with new tooling, Unreal Engine and Godot support, and glasses-focused APIs.
Google releases Android 17, introducing adaptive-first large-screen requirements, on-device AI via AppFunctions, and next-generation privacy and performance.
Google announces Android developer verification launches September 2026 in four countries, with new bulk-registration APIs and a 2027 global rollout.
Google previews the Geospatial API in ARCore for Jetpack XR, demonstrating a Gemini-powered immersive walking tour app.
Mark Murphy considers whether Maven Central's dominance over artifact distribution creates unhealthy ecosystem centralization.
Jake Wharton announces Retrofit, OkHttp, Okio, and SQLDelight are moving to the Commonhaus Foundation under the new lysine.dev organisation.
Videos & Podcasts
Dave Leeds covers Kotlin 2.4's new Collection Literals, letting you declare collections with bracket syntax.
Android Developers rounds up the latest Android XR development updates, tools, and resources for building immersive apps.
Android Developers shows how to build and test Android XR apps without any physical hardware.
Kotlin by JetBrains marks 15 years of Kotlin by showing how its principles of conciseness and efficiency play out in everyday situations.
Android Developers covers building Android XR apps with Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot using the new XR Engine Hub and Interaction Framework.
Philipp Lackner discusses why AI tooling is likely to improve rather than degrade overall codebase quality.
Kotzilla demonstrates diagnosing and fixing Android ANRs and slow screens using their MCP server with session data.
Android Developers summarizes the latest updates and tools for building Android XR apps in 2026.
Code with the Italians live-streams building an Android app and learning Jetpack Compose from scratch.
Android Developers covers the five key AOSP updates landing with Android 17, from adaptive layouts to granular privacy pickers.
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Learn how Datadog integrated Android 15's ProfilingManager API to surface code-level performance insights from production apps at scale.
KMP Bits demonstrates how to implement shared barcode scanning in Compose Multiplatform using expect/actual at the Composable level with CameraX/MLKit and AVFoundation.
Daniil Chernyaev explores how Kotlin select expressions adapt to changing async data-handling requirements across three evolving task formulations.
Nav Singh walks through implementing Android 17's new Contact Picker, a privacy-first alternative to the READ_CONTACTS permission.
Gabriel Bronzatti Moro walks through migrating a multimodule Compose Multiplatform project from KSP-based Koin Annotations to the new Koin Compiler plugin.
Jaewoong Eum explores the new Stability Doctor and trace-all mode in Compose Stability Analyzer 0.10.0, offering ranked fix prescriptions backed by static and runtime data.
Jaewoong Eum walks through a new Gradle plugin that generates type-safe Kotlin accessors for RevenueCat dashboard entitlements and offerings at build time.
Chris Merrick explains how repeated AI completion failures on Android apps led him to build a multi-agent verification framework with role separation and file-based state.
Daniel Bertoldi compares KMP's two iOS interop approaches — SKIE and Swift Export — by examining their compiled Swift output across real-world scenarios.
Libraries & Code
A Gradle plugin and IDE extension that visualizes your entire Compose app's navigation flow as an interactive, thumbnail-rich map.
An Android Studio plugin that integrates LeakCanary's heap analysis engine with AI-powered fix suggestions directly inside the IDE.
A KMP JSON Pointer library adds unofficial-but-popular dot notation support alongside standard JSON Pointer and URI fragment identifier syntaxes.
A Ktor plugin that converts HTTP client requests into runnable curl commands, with header masking and KMP support.
News
Google summarizes top Android I/O productivity announcements, including Android CLI 1.0 stable and new Android skills.
Videos & Podcasts
Stevdza-San walks through a KMP starter template to jumpstart multiplatform projects without boilerplate setup.
Android Developer Tips shares a 17-minute deep dive on how AI tools have changed the Android app-building workflow.
Android Developers summarizes the key Android developer productivity announcements from Google I/O.
Android Developers explains what Android skills are and how to expose them to AI assistants and tools.
Android Developers hosts a 66-minute Office Hours session covering Google Play policy review, enforcement, and publishing best practices.
Philipp Lackner covers the latest Android CLI update, exploring new commands that streamline device management and project setup.
Android Developers explains how to build adaptive Android UIs that respond to screen size, orientation, and input changes.
Firebase shows how to connect Gemini to Google Maps in an Android app using Firebase AI Logic.
Android Developers shows how to choose and tune prompts for faster AI inference on Android devices.
Android Developers introduces the new Styles API and explains its Compose performance benefits.
Android Developers covers the top three productivity announcements from Google I/O, including Android CLI stable release and new AI tools.
Kotlin by JetBrains interviews a Verifone architect on migrating legacy financial software to Kotlin safely.
Android Developers shows how a new AI-powered tool summarizes, organizes, and proposes improvements during code review.
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A Compose Multiplatform library that renders a platform-native navigation bar — Material 3 on Android, glassy floating bar on iOS — from a single shared API.
Diego Gómez Olvera explores how Booking.com used KMP to unify a shared experimentation library and host their design system in a browser.
Andrew Malitchuk shows how to use the foldable hinge angle as a continuous animation input rather than a binary layout switch.
Marcin Moskała argues Jetpack Compose has revitalized mobile development and may eventually challenge web frameworks.
Sagar Gupta walks through building local device-to-device sync for a KMP Android app using mDNS and TCP sockets, avoiding Google Play Services entirely.
Nav Singh explores Kotlin 2.4's experimental collection literals, replacing listOf() with concise bracket syntax.
Farhad Ranjbar explores how on-device AI is pushing Android toward hybrid execution environments requiring orchestration, fallback strategies, and lifecycle-aware inference.
Ahmed Tikiwa explains why SavedStateHandle deserialization fails in Navigation 3 and how Hilt Assisted Injection resolves it.
KMP Bits walks through the full setup for publishing a Kotlin Multiplatform library to Maven Central, covering signing, POM requirements, and CI automation.
Dave Leeds explores several Kotlin tools — atomics, StateFlow, Mutex, and confinement — for safely sharing mutable state across coroutines.
FunkyMuse explores how to wire Hilt dependency injection into Android Auto Car App screens using multi-map bindings and a ScreenProvider pattern.
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Libraries & Code
A collection of 45 agent-ready skill recipes for integrating Google Play Billing and the RevenueCat Android SDK.
An Android library for foldable device hinge angle sensing using Kotlin Flow and Compose primitives.
A Kotlin Multiplatform XMPP SDK for Android, iOS, and JVM with modular RFC/XEP support.
News
Arnaud Giuliani announces Koin Compiler 1.0, bringing compile-safe dependency injection with both DSL and annotation support.
Google recaps Google I/O '26 highlights for Android developers, covering R8 Configuration Analyzer, unified Jetpack Glance widgets, and media pipeline updates.
Google outlines Android 17's new app memory limits and recommends optimization strategies to avoid forced terminations.
JetBrains releases Kotlin 2.4.0 with stable context parameters, UUID API, Java 26 support, and Gradle 9.5 compatibility.
JetBrains releases Kotlin 2.4.0 with stable context parameters, explicit backing fields, UUID API, and Gradle 9.5 compatibility.
Videos & Podcasts
Dave Leeds covers the two kinds of hot flows in Kotlin's Flow API, SharedFlow and StateFlow.
A KotlinConf'26 conversation uncovering the hidden challenges and lessons learned from shipping KMP code on iOS.
Code with the Italians live-streams building an Android learning platform using Claude Design and Claude Code.
István Juhos from Spoke presents Android screen capture alternatives for cases when MediaProjection doesn't meet your needs.
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Gradle and DuckDuckGo walk through how remote build caching cut their Android CI build times significantly.
Nimit Raja shows how to use Gemini and GitHub Actions to automatically analyze Android build failures and post solutions directly on pull requests.
Anand Gaur walks through deploying custom AI models on Android and iOS using Melange, a platform that automates NPU optimization across devices.
Akshay Nandwana explains Google's new ADK for Kotlin and ADK for Android, enabling on-device and cloud AI agent orchestration.
Nav Singh walks through Kotlin build errors encountered when upgrading an Android project to AGP 9.2.1 and how to fix each.
Marcin Moskała gives a rapid overview of Kotlin's key features for developers new to the language.
Santiago Mattiauda explains how type instability causes unnecessary recompositions and outlines a systematic approach to eliminating jank in Compose UIs.
Jean Tuffier walks through diagnosing a Bluetooth connectivity failure caused by MAC address randomization changes in Android 12.
KMP Bits walks through advanced Ktor HttpClient configuration covering authentication, logging, and retry logic for KMP projects.
Abhishek Doshi recaps everything Flutter-related announced at Google I/O 2026.
John O'Reilly walks through adding semantic session search to a Compose Multiplatform conference app using Koog embeddings and RAG.
Rakesh Arunachalam compares three React Native biometric authentication approaches, from simple prompt to hardware-backed cryptographic key pairs.
Eevis explores how to support Android autofill in Jetpack Compose using the new semantics-based API.
Seiji Fukuoka shares hard-won lessons from running Koin with 740+ declarations in production, covering module structure, runtime risks, and the new compiler plugin.
Libraries & Code
A device automation CLI that lets AI agents inspect, interact with, and capture evidence from real Android, iOS, and React Native apps.
An open-source CLI ecosystem that adds AI skills, semantic code graph, and project memory to Android, KMP, Flutter, and React Native workflows.
A focused sample app demonstrating Jetpack Compose Foundation Style API with reusable, theme-aware component styles.
A Kotlin Flow extension that buffers stream elements into batches and invokes an action when each batch fills.
News
Google recaps Android's shift to an intelligence system, covering AppFunctions, Gemini Nano 4, hybrid inference, and ADK for Android.
JetBrains releases Koog 1.0, their Kotlin AI agent framework, with stable APIs, Android on-device AI, and OpenTelemetry support.
Videos & Podcasts
Dan Kim discusses building full-stack web apps in Kotlin using Ktor, Compose, and WebAssembly, and whether Android developers can skip JavaScript.
Philipp Lackner covers the biggest Android announcements from Google I/O 2026, including Compose-first UI and new AI tools.
Kotlin by JetBrains interviews Jake Wharton on Kotlin's past, present, and future at KotlinConf'26.
Android Developer Tips surveys KotlinConf 2026 attendees on AI's impact on the future of software engineering.
Android Developers covers the top three AI on Android updates announced at Google I/O 2026.
The Firebase team covers full-text search, geoqueries, and joins coming to Firestore via the new pipeline queries engine.
Android Developers introduces App Functions, a new API letting apps expose capabilities to on-device AI agents like Gemini.
Firebase shows how to break down development tasks incrementally without destabilising a running app.
Philipp Lackner covers the biggest Kotlin and KMP announcements from KotlinConf 2026.
Kotzilla demonstrates its AI performance monitoring platform for Koin-based Android apps.
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Akshay Nandwana explores building a full Voice AI pipeline on Android, covering streaming audio capture, endpointing, and state management.
Thomas Künneth documents a week-long investigation into suppressing ChromeOS resize warnings for Android apps on ARC.
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KMP Bits walks through building a Gradle plugin that handles splash screen setup for both Android and iOS from a single Kotlin config block.
Adam McNeilly reflects on his Android career and why he's choosing human connection over AI-assisted development.
James Cullimore explores using Déjà vu to add recomposition assertions to a real Compose app, uncovering a tooling bug along the way.
Anand Gaur summarises every Google I/O 2026 announcement that matters to Android developers, from Android CLI to Compose-first tooling and Android 17.
Jaewoong Eum distills Google I/O 2026 into what changes daily Android work: Compose as the standard, Views in maintenance mode, Android CLI 1.0, and Play Billing 9.0.0 breaking changes.
Siarhei Krupenich explores how to adapt Android apps for TV, Auto, and Wear OS without falling into mobile-first assumptions.
Oğuzhan Aslan explains how Room database indices work under the hood and walks through single-column, composite, and unique index strategies.
Mike Yerou walks through Promies, a revamped promo code distribution system for Android app giveaways.
Akshay Nandwana highlights the 17 biggest Android announcements from Google I/O 2026, from AI-native experiences to Android 17 and AppFunctions.
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Libraries & Code
A collection of AI agent skills for Kotlin projects, installable into coding agents like Claude Code or Codex.
A modular, fully unstyled Compose component library designed for building custom design systems.
A debug-only Android library that upgrades StrictMode with a live notification, Compose detail UI, and MCP server for AI agents.
A Kotlin JVM library that generates fully populated instances of any class for testing, with zero configuration.
A web-based adb logcat viewer that streams Android device logs to your browser, with filters, regex search, and no IDE required.
A macOS desktop app for reviewing Android screenshot test failures side-by-side, with one-click baseline acceptance.
A CLI tool that drives Android devices from the shell via ADB, with millisecond latency and CSS-like selectors.
News
Google announces Wear OS 7 with up to 10% better battery life, Wear Widgets, Live Updates, and Gemini Intelligence on select watches.
JetBrains launches an official Kotlin extension for VS Code in alpha, powered by the Kotlin Language Server.
JetBrains Research shows Kotlin developers complete tasks 15–20% faster than Java, with Kotlin codebases barely slowing over time.
JetBrains introduces an 18-month security support policy for the Kotlin Standard Library's JVM runtime artifact.
JetBrains previews Kotlin 2.4.0, a unified Kotlin Toolchain, Language Server Alpha, and official VS Code support.
Google announces Android for Cars updates at I/O 2026, unifying Android Auto and Automotive OS with new Car App Library templates and components.
Google announces Play updates from I/O 2026, including app discovery in Gemini, Engage SDK expansions, and Play Shorts.
Google declares Compose the standard for all Android UI, placing View components and related Jetpack libraries in maintenance mode.
Google launches Android Performance Analyzer, a new open-beta profiler for CPU, GPU, memory, and power analysis on Android devices.
Google announces agentic Android Studio features at I/O, including Agent Skills, Firebase integration in Agent Mode, and Android CLI.
Google announces Android 17's adaptive-first standard, requiring apps to support diverse screen sizes across phones, foldables, tablets, and new Googlebook devices.
Google announces Android CLI 1.0 stable, bringing agent access to Android Studio capabilities and Antigravity 2.0 integration.
Google opens applications for the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program, offering hardware kits, technical support, and grants to developers building XR apps.
Google announces AI Studio can generate full native Kotlin/Compose Android apps from a prompt, with browser-based emulator, device install, and Play publishing.
Google announces new Google TV developer tools for app discoverability, Gemini integration, and pointer remote support.
Google recaps 17 key Google I/O announcements for Android developers, covering agentic workflows, tooling, and ecosystem updates.
Google announces ADK for Kotlin and ADK for Android 0.1.0, enabling multi-agent AI systems on-device and in the cloud.
Videos & Podcasts
Android Developers playlist covers all 24 Google I/O 2026 Android sessions, from platform updates to AI and Compose.
Marcin Moskała explains how to use the Kotlin Duration API, how it works, and why it's useful.
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Garan Jenkin walks through how FotMob used Wearable APIs to prompt phone users to install the Wear OS app, tripling daily installs.
JetBrains explains the move to name-based destructuring in Kotlin, outlining new syntax, rationale, and migration path.
KMP Bits explores three dependency injection patterns using Metro's compile-time-safe DI framework in Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
Daniele Bonaldo builds a morphing instrument dial in Compose Multiplatform, covering Canvas drawing, polar coordinates, and synchronized state transitions.
FunkyMuse walks through diagnosing and fixing silent SQLCipher encryption failures in KMP caused by Firebase's transitive sqlite3 linker dependency on iOS.
Victor Brandalise walks through building an adaptive list-detail screen in Jetpack Compose using WindowSizeClass.
Ryan Harter recommends small, incremental refactoring steps to improve legacy Android codebases without big rewrites.
Thomas Künneth walks through adapting an Android launcher app to run on ChromeOS, covering platform detection, split-screen quirks, and wallpaper handling.
Jaewoong Eum demonstrates how Compose hot reload keeps side effects live-editable without restarting the app.
Valentine Rutto compares Room's FTS4 full-text search against LIKE queries for efficient offline search in large Android databases.
Jaewoong Eum walks through live-tuning AGSL shaders in Compose using RuntimeShader and remember keying, with no process restart.
Thomas Künneth explains how Android 17's new Bubbles feature works and what developers need to do to support it.
Marcin Moskała explores how Compose Multiplatform is positioning itself as a serious competitor to React and other frontend frameworks.
Jaewoong Eum walks through capturing every Compose preview on a real device and publishing the results via GitHub Actions.
Rifqi Fahmi and Arun Sampathkumar explain how Grab built a custom Focus plugin that cut Android Studio sync times from 35 minutes to under 2 minutes in a 2,000-module monorepo.
Karol Wrótniak explains how a missing user check in Android's notification service let screen readers leak private notifications across user accounts.
Saurabh Arora shows how to scope ViewModels to individual list items in Compose using new Lifecycle 2.11 APIs.
TJ Dahunsi argues why Compose snapshot State should replace StateFlow as the observable primitive in the Android UI layer.
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A type-safe feature flagging engine for Android using KSP, with a reactive Compose debug UI and Firebase Remote Config support.
A collection of Claude Code skills covering Jetpack Compose state, performance, testing, and Kotlin coroutines best practices.
A Gradle plugin that audits Android and KMP builds across 20+ architectural checks and scores them like Google Lighthouse.
A Jetpack Compose library for syntax highlighting, using Highlight.js via a hidden WebView to render 190+ languages as native AnnotatedString.
A Kotlin-first test framework reaching 1.0 stable, supporting JVM, Android, JS, Wasm, and all Native targets.
A catalog of 54 AI agent skills covering Android testing from unit tests to ADB-driven E2E.
News
Google announces Gemini Intelligence, AppFunctions, and expanded widget support as Android transitions toward an intelligence system.
Google announces Jetpack Telecom v1.1.0 alpha, adding unified call history, native callbacks, and call log exclusion for VoIP apps.
JetBrains rounds up April Kotlin news including Golden Kodee finalists, Kotlin 2.4.0-Beta2, and a new LinkedIn Learning certificate.
JetBrains launches a community survey on AI-assisted Kotlin development, with prizes for participants.
JetBrains releases Compose Multiplatform 1.11.0 with native iOS text input, upgraded UI testing APIs, and smoother web scrolling.
JetBrains updates the default KMP project structure, separating shared library code from platform-specific application modules.
Videos & Podcasts
Firebase channel announces the arrival of Firestore's most requested feature in this short overview.
Kotlin by JetBrains covers the new default project structure introduced for Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
Marcin Moskała discusses his perspective on where mobile development is headed.
kt.academy's Marcin Moskała challenges developers to rethink limiting assumptions when choosing frameworks and tools.
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Jaewoong Eum walks through the full Play Billing Library v7-to-v8 migration, covering removed APIs, updated flows, and new v8 behaviors.
Aleyn Patten walks through nav3-helper, a KSP-powered library for type-safe cross-module routing in Compose Navigation 3.
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Gabriel Bronzatti Moro walks through migrating a Compose Multiplatform multi-module project from Koin DSL to Koin Annotations, covering KSP setup, convention plugins, and gradual module-by-module adoption.
Thomas Ezan and Tracy Agyemang show how Karrot used Firebase AI Logic and Gemini Flash Lite to add real-time translation, boosting buyer conversion 2.4x.
KMP Bits demonstrates Kotlin 2.3.0's Swift Export, showing how Kotlin enums arrive as real Swift enums, eliminating ObjC bridge adapters.
Android Poet replaces the official 19,000-line Supabase SDK with a 3,600-line KMP alternative using Result types, explicit error handling, and DI-friendly design.
Marcin Moskała explores the new experimental collection literals syntax in Kotlin 2.4, allowing list and set creation with box brackets.
Jaewoong Eum walks through a growing catalog of self-contained Jetpack Compose animation examples, each with tweakable constants and motion explanations.
Mike Yerou introduces Promies Feedback Board, a simple hub for collecting, voting on, and managing in-app user feedback.
Jaewoong Eum demonstrates live Compose theme variant exploration using an MCP tool and hot reload, eliminating rebuild cycles.
Paresh Mayani outlines practical Android security steps covering encrypted storage, certificate pinning, biometric auth, and Play Integrity.
Ash Nohe and Amrit Sanjeev show how migrating Android widgets from XML to Jetpack Glance boosted retention 25% for the Gratitude app.
James Cullimore proves TEE-backed keystore support on a custom Android device and explores the Binder service trust boundary for secure key operations.
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Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform library adding Relative JSON Pointer support for navigating and comparing JSON structures.
A collection of Jetpack Compose animation playgrounds with live hot-reload editing via Compose HotSwan.
News
Google announces Play Policy Insights in Android Studio, post-quantum app signing support, and faster parallel publishing for test tracks.
JetBrains announces the results of the Kotlin Ecosystem Mentorship Program pilot, selecting a grand prize pair for KotlinConf 2026.
Videos & Podcasts
Philipp Lackner walks through the key components of mobile app system design, with tips for technical interviews.
Firebase covers April 2026 updates including Firestore search, SQL Connect realtime, and experimental Dart Functions support.
Android Developers covers how the Google app team diagnosed and improved Android startup performance.
The Kotzilla channel introduces their new MCP Server for AI-assisted Koin performance monitoring.
Firebase's Morgan Chen goes under the hood of the Firestore query engine, demonstrating pipeline operations for sorting and aggregation.
kt.academy covers why factory functions are often preferable to secondary constructors in Kotlin.
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Samuvel Pandian walks through DroidDoctor, a Python CLI using a 7-node LangGraph state machine to audit Android Gradle configs, manifests, deprecated APIs, and Compose adoption.
Hossain Khan explores two approaches to Compose-native syntax highlighting: a Shiki microservice and on-device TextMate grammars.
Sergey Drymchenko explores the architecture needed when Compose text fields must behave as a full block document editor.
Daniil Chernyaev builds a Gradle plugin that automatically surfaces dependency version conflicts and their full resolution paths on every sync.
Kevin Kimani shows how to instrument a Kotlin/Spring Boot service with OpenTelemetry tracing to go beyond basic logging in distributed systems.
Simon Topchyan assesses Google's experimental Foundation Style API and what it means for Compose design systems at scale.
Eevis Jonna shows how to build custom, accessible keyboard focus indicators in Jetpack Compose using the Indication API.
Dmytro Petrenko walks through SDK testing strategies, binary compatibility validation, and Maven Central publishing.
Jaewoong Eum demonstrates how Compose hot reload enables real-time animation parameter tuning without app rebuilds.
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Libraries & Code
A free, open-source Android compass and navigation app built with Jetpack Compose, supporting track recording, GPX export, and OpenStreetMap integration.
A Kotlin coroutines library for executing Android root commands, now rewritten with Flow-based streaming and libsu backend.
A Jetpack Compose library for physics-based particle animations, with Canvas and layout-based rendering engines.
A Gradle plugin that automatically detects major-version dependency conflicts during sync and shows full resolution paths.
A Gradle plugin that renders Jetpack Compose @Preview composables to PNG so AI coding agents can see what they're changing.
An open-source Android telemetry SDK that collects device integrity signals — root, hooking, bootloader, and emulator detection — as structured JSON.
A curated library of agent skills for diagnosing and fixing Jetpack Compose performance issues.
News
Zac Sweers announces Metro 1.0.0, a compile-time Kotlin DI framework offering 50–80% build time improvements over source-generation tools.
Videos & Podcasts
Android Developers team hosts an office hours session on optimizing and scaling app performance across the Android ecosystem.
Philipp Lackner demonstrates the new Android CLI tool and its most important commands for AI-first development setups.
Talking Kotlin covers the Exposed SQL framework reaching 1.0 and what comes next.
Philipp Lackner covers the latest Android dev news including major Compose API changes and the new Android Studio Panda release.
kt.academy covers why composition is preferred over inheritance in Kotlin and when each approach makes sense.
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Articles & Tutorials
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Jaewoong Eum clarifies how Compose Strong Skipping Mode works at the compiler level and when type stability still matters.
Adam McNeilly shows how to use Room DAO interface inheritance to share multi-table insert logic across DAOs.
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Justin Mancinelli and Samuel Hill from Touchlab outline the business case for KMP adoption with code reduction and velocity metrics.
KMP Bits walks through setting up and writing cross-platform UI tests in Compose Multiplatform 1.11.
Paresh Mayani compares GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code for Android developers, covering strengths, pricing, and workflow fit.
James Cullimore explains how Perfetto traces helped validate which Android startup optimizations were genuinely beneficial.
Maia Grotepass explores combining Android CLI with Gemini CLI to build Android apps using AI agents outside the IDE.
Kartikey Rawat walks through deploying multimodal Gemma 4 on Android using LiteRT-LM with NPU acceleration via Qualcomm QNN.
Marcin Moskała explains how Compose modifier ordering works across the layout and drawing phases using a decorator mental model.
Arnaud Giuliani introduces a Claude Code skill that automates DI migrations from Hilt, Dagger, or older Koin to Koin 4.x.
Daniele Bonaldo builds a Ferrari-inspired animated dial component using Compose Multiplatform for an automotive dashboard UI.
KMP Bits walks through migrating a Kotlin Multiplatform project from layer-based to feature-based modularization.
Dmytro Petrenko outlines seven principles for building consumer-grade Android SDKs, covering API design, thread safety, reactive state, and dependency isolation.
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Libraries & Code
A haptic feedback SDK for Android, iOS, and React Native with presets, pattern composer, and realtime gesture-driven feedback.
A KMP library for JSON Pointer operations adds URI fragment encoding support in version 0.2.0.
News
JetBrains launches a Kotlin Professional Certificate on LinkedIn Learning covering Kotlin essentials through multiplatform and Ktor.
Google releases Android Studio Panda 4 stable with Planning Mode, Next Edit Prediction, and enhanced agent capabilities.
Google releases Compose 1.11 stable with updated test coroutine APIs, shared element debug tooling, and improved trackpad support.
Google announces verified email via Credential Manager, replacing OTP-based email verification with one-tap consent.
Videos & Podcasts
Dave Leeds covers how Buffer, Conflate, and Debounce operators affect Kotlin Flow behaviour.
Philipp Lackner demonstrates building an Android habit tracker app using Claude Code agent-assisted development.
Android Developers covers AI-powered features in Android Studio Panda including project assistant, agent skills, and planning mode.
Stevdza-San demonstrates migrating a KMP project to AGP 9 using Android Skills and Firebender AI tools.
Sergio Sastre demonstrates planning Gemini-assisted refactoring with checkpoints in Android Studio.
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Miguel Valdes Faura shows how to add unified crash reporting and app vitals across Android, iOS, Desktop and Web in a CMP project using Kotzilla SDK.
Arnaud Giuliani released the new Koin Compiler Plugin and also wrote an article going over in depth all the new possible features.
Yassine Beldi walks through integrating Gemini Nano via ML Kit and shows a coordinator pattern for routing between on-device and cloud inference.
Domen Lanišnik explains how ViewModel scoping differs in Navigation 3 vs Navigation 2, and how to restore per-entry scoping with a lifecycle add-on library.
Anup Cowkur examines how mobile observability fundamentally differs from backend.
sinasamaki walks through recreating Airbnb's delightful month picker dial using the ChromaDial library in Jetpack Compose.
Jobs
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Libraries & Code
A Compose Multiplatform library that generates complete Material 3 themes at runtime from natural language prompts.
An MCP server that wraps Google's android/skills, letting any MCP-capable AI coding assistant access Android development guidance without copy-pasting.
An AI-driven CLI that tests Android and iOS apps using plain-English YAML specs, controlling the emulator like an AI agent and producing pass/fail reports with video logs.
A terminal UI for Android that lets developers manage app data, browse logs, run SQL queries, record Perfetto traces, and control devices without leaving the terminal.
A reusable agent skill that automates creating polished Google Play screenshot sets and feature graphics without manual design work.
A Compose Multiplatform demo with 24 shader effects across Android, iOS, desktop, and web using a Kotlin expect/actual abstraction.
Official Google repository of AI-optimised, modular Android development instructions and resources for LLM-based agents.
A Claude Code skill for implementing Google's Material Design 3 system, covering 30+ Compose components, theming, and an MD3 compliance audit mode.
News
Google releases Android 17 Beta 4, the last scheduled beta, marking a critical milestone for app compatibility and platform stability testing.
Google announces a new Android Emulator networking stack enabling zero-configuration peer-to-peer connectivity between AVDs without complex port forwarding.
Google announces the Google I/O 2026 schedule for May 19–20, with keynotes covering AI, Android, Chrome, and Cloud development.
Google introduces Android CLI, Android skills, and the Android Knowledge Base to improve agentic Android development workflows outside of Android Studio.
Google announces new Play policy updates including a privacy-friendly Contact Picker API and location permission changes, with October 2026 enforcement deadlines.
Google announces experimental hybrid inference for Android, routing between on-device Gemini Nano and cloud-hosted Gemini models via a unified Firebase API.
Videos & Podcasts
Marcin Moskała covers the IntelliJ/Android Studio productivity tool that dramatically speeds up development workflows.
Events
KMP, Compose, custom UI, shaders & more. Hear Márton Braun (JetBrains), Arkadii Ivanov (xAI), Sinasamaki & others. June 3 workshops, June 4 conference. Festival vibe all day. Get your limited Community Ticket for June 4 (179 € + VAT).
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Jaewoong Eum explains how Compose hot reload works on real devices, covering its pipeline, supported changes, and instant literal patching.
Nav Singh explores Kotlin 2.4.0's new collection sorting-validation extensions that efficiently check ordering without resorting.
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Tezov show how with Koin annotations and the Koin compiler, you can completely bypass expect/actual.
Thomas Künneth explores Android's AppFunctions API for making app capabilities discoverable and executable by AI agents.
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Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform library providing JSON Pointer implementation and integration with Kotlin Serialization JSON.
A sample Android app for experimenting with on-device Gemini Nano via the ML Kit Prompt API.
Videos & Podcasts
Stevdza-San demonstrates how to set up and use a local database on the web target in Kotlin Multiplatform.
Philipp Lackner demonstrates how attackers can hack Android in-app purchases and how to protect against it.
Firebase covers the March highlights including AI Studio integration and hybrid AI inference for Android.
Sergio Sastre demonstrates using behavior tests as guardrails when refactoring Android code with Gemini in Android Studio.
Dave Leeds explores how coroutine context is preserved across multi-coroutine flows in Kotlin.
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Tezov shows how to use Koin with the Koin Compiler and annotations to generate the dependency graph, and we validate everything through unit tests.
Jaewoong Eum explains the suspendCoroutine bridge pattern for converting callback-based Android APIs into clean suspend functions.
Shreyas Patil explains Android AppFunctions, the new API that exposes app functionality to AI agents and assistants.
Jorge Castillo shares a set of animated loaders based on mathematics.
inDrive.Tech explains how Jetpack Compose's built-in maxLength filter skips programmatic text changes, causing TextField to become completely unusable.
KMP Bits shows how to write custom Detekt rules that enforce design system constraints like banning hardcoded colors in Compose.
Marcin Moskala walks through new IntelliJ IDEA warnings for common Kotlin coroutines misuses, including awaitAll, currentCoroutineContext, and more.
Nick Skelton walks through implementing drag and drop in Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose, navigating experimental API documentation gaps.
Nav Singh demonstrates the new biometric-compose library for integrating biometric authentication directly in Jetpack Compose.
Jaewoong Eum demonstrates hot-reloading Jetpack Compose UI on real Android devices using Compose HotSwan.
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Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform network inspection SDK that intercepts HTTP and WebSocket traffic, mocks API responses, and throttles requests without a proxy.
A native block-based rich text editor for Compose Multiplatform with drag-and-drop, slash commands, and custom block types.
News
Google releases Media3 1.10 with Material 3 Compose playback widgets, a new Player composable, and improved Transformer export speed adjustment.
Google releases Android Studio Panda 3 with agent skills for custom AI workflows, granular Agent Mode permissions, and updated car development support.
Google announces a 64-bit native code requirement for Wear OS apps starting September 15, 2026, with guidance on how to prepare.
Google announces Gemma 4 is available via the AICore Developer Preview, the foundation for the next-generation Gemini Nano 4 on-device AI.
Google announces Gemma 4 for Android, enabling local AI for both Android Studio coding assistance and on-device app development.
Google announces Gemma 4 is now available in Android Studio for local AI coding assistance, offering privacy and cost efficiency.
Jake Wharton announces the Android KTX libraries are being retired, as Kotlin extensions have been merged into their respective AndroidX libraries.
Videos & Podcasts
Android Developers demonstrates building on-device AI experiences in Android apps with the new Gemma 4 model.
Android Developers shows how to build AI-powered Android apps using Gemma 4 for local coding assistance.
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Jaewoong Eum (skydoves) explores the ImagePlugin architecture in Landscapist, showing how to build custom plugins for the image loading lifecycle.
navczydev introduces Flexbox, the powerful new layout system for Jetpack Compose inspired by CSS flexbox concepts.
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KMP Bits explores how to share ViewModels with StateFlow and SharedFlow in Kotlin Multiplatform, bridging Android Compose and SwiftUI.
Mark Murphy (CommonsWare) shares observations on Android 17 Beta 3's surprisingly large API changes and undocumented additions.
Leonidas Partsas shows how to use @RequiresOptIn to enforce that certain composables are restricted to Compose Preview usage only.
Oğuzhan Aslan demonstrates how to handle rich content in Compose text inputs using the contentReceiver modifier.
James Cullimore explains why TLS is necessary but not sufficient for protecting sensitive payloads in Android apps.
Andrew Malitchuk builds YACT, an IDE plugin that gives CompositionLocal values one-click navigation, visualization, and usage insights in Compose.
Sergey Yamshchikov walks through DTA, an MCP-based CLI toolkit that gives AI assistants direct access to Android devices for debugging.
James Cullimore shows how to implement a Wear OS complication that acts as a direct app launcher shortcut on the watch face.
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Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform statistics toolkit covering distributions, hypothesis testing, correlation, descriptive stats, and sampling.
A Kotlin Multiplatform library providing standards-first building blocks for WebAuthn and passkey integrations.
News
Google announces Android 17 Beta 3 reaching platform stability with locked APIs, plus new behavior changes around large screens and security.
Google announces AAOS SDV, an open-source expansion of Android Automotive OS beyond infotainment targeting software-defined vehicle platforms.
Google introduces the Android 17 Contact Picker, letting users grant apps access to only specific contacts instead of the broad READ_CONTACTS permission.
Google introduces a new location button and privacy improvements in Android 17, giving users easier one-time precise location access controls.
CommonsWare highlights the March 25 Jetpack artifact wave, including new Room3 multiplatform targets and a new Wear Compose Remote artifact.
Videos & Podcasts
Marcin Moskała explains the order in which Jetpack Compose modifiers are applied.
Dave Leeds covers the latest Kotlin and Android news including the Kotlin 2.3.20 release and Android Bench.
Firebase shows how to get started with Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) for the Firebase AI Logic SDK on Android.
Android Developers demonstrates Android Studio's new agentic AI capabilities for building high-quality Android apps.
Android Developers answers the top questions about the new Android developer verification program, including ADB installs and unregistered app flows.
Kotlin by JetBrains covers the new explicit backing fields syntax introduced as experimental in Kotlin 2.3.
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Jaewoong Eum traces the full pipeline from @Preview annotation to rendered pixels inside Android Studio.
James Cullimore's guide to improving your startup speed.
Nav Singh takes a quick look at name-based destructuring declarations.
Stefan examines how to use CompositionLocal.
Julien Salvi shows how to automate Android Vitals monitoring using the Play Developer Reporting API and a Gradle task.
Tim Malseed argues for learning coroutine testing fundamentals before reaching for Turbine, to avoid flaky, over-specified tests.
Saurabh Arora shows how to keep AI coding guidelines consistent across Android Studio, CLI tools, and CI bots using a git pre-commit hook.
Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform flight recorder for Compose apps that captures gestures, screen views, breadcrumbs, and crashes for replay and reporting.
A Compose Multiplatform navigation library built around pure reducers and immutable state for predictable, testable navigation on Android, iOS, and Desktop.
An MCP server that gives AI tools on-demand access to AOSP and AndroidX source code for accurate framework understanding.
A collection of AI agent skills for Kotlin projects, installable via the Agent Skills standard.
News
Google launches desktop experience design guidance and the Android Design Gallery for adaptive app development.
JetBrains releases Kotlin 2.3.20 with Gradle 9.3 compatibility, name-based destructuring, and new C/Objective-C interop.
The Kotlin Foundation announces participation in GSoC 2026, with four projects open for contributor applications until March 31.
Google announces an advanced sideloading flow and free limited-distribution accounts as part of upcoming Android developer verification requirements.
JetBrains highlights selected talks from the full KotlinConf 2026 schedule, spanning language design, multiplatform, server-side, and AI.
Videos & Podcasts
Philipp Lackner covers six practical techniques for speeding up Gradle builds in Android projects.
Philipp Lackner tests the Figma MCP server to vibe-code Android UI designs using Claude Code.
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Victor Brandalise demonstrates how to integrate the embedded system photo picker into a Compose UI using the photopicker-compose artifact.
Yabin Cui explains how the Android LLVM team applies AutoFDO to the kernel using real-world workload profiles for measurable performance gains.
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Enrique Lopez Manas explains how to use the java-platform Gradle plugin to create a BoM that simplifies version management for multi-module Android libraries.
Shreyas Patil dives deep into how Jetpack Compose's CompositionLocal API works internally, tracing value holders, persistent scope maps, and snapshot-based recomposition tracking.
Matt McKenna introduces Dejavu, a test library that turns Jetpack Compose recomposition counts into assertable CI contracts without any production code changes.
Adit Lal introduces Rebound, a Kotlin compiler plugin that monitors Jetpack Compose recomposition rates against role-based budgets and surfaces violations in an IDE plugin.
Jan Rabe explains how to build a unified, promise-based WebView bridge that works identically on Android and iOS, eliminating platform-specific callback spaghetti.
Nav Singh walks through Material3 1.5.0-alpha15's unified LocalMaterialTheme CompositionLocal and how custom Modifier nodes can now read theme data directly.
Costa Fotiadis explores replacing ViewModel with Compose's retain API to create a composition-scoped, DI-friendly state holder without the pre-Compose baggage.
Maia Grotepass demonstrates building a Gemini CLI skill that automates Code Maat analysis to detect hotspots and logical coupling in an Android codebase.
Nguyen Van Minh and Rifqi Fahmi explain how Grab evolved their Android disk cache from LRU to a time-aware variant to reclaim device storage at scale.
Nguyen Van Minh walks through how Grab enabled full R8 optimization across a 9-million-line Android app using AI-assisted debugging techniques.
Arman Chatikyan explores Remote Compose, showing how to define and render Android UI from a server without WebViews or custom JSON schemas.
Kevin Schildhorn from Touchlab highlights standout KotlinConf 2026 sessions covering KMP, Compose Multiplatform, iOS integration, and Kotlin/JS.
Thomas Künneth explores how the familiar Jetpack library stack maps onto Kotlin Multiplatform for cross-platform development.
Marcello Galhardo walks through new Lifecycle ViewModel APIs that allow scoping ViewModels to arbitrary parts of the Compose UI hierarchy.
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Libraries & Code
Budget-based recomposition monitoring for Jetpack Compose. A Screen at 3/s. An Animation at 120/s. Zero config. Debug builds only.
A test-only library that turns Jetpack Compose recomposition behavior into assertable, automatable test expectations.
A Compose component that implements a snappy swipe-to-delete interaction inspired by Material 3 Expressive notifications.
News
Google announces cross-platform PC discovery, Game Trials, buy-once-play-anywhere pricing, and Play Pass updates for game developers.
Google announces Play Games Sidekick testing, new Play Console updates, and 2026 Level Up program milestones for game developers.
Google releases the first alpha of Room 3.0, a major update adding Kotlin Multiplatform support, dropping Java codegen, and going coroutines-first.
Videos & Podcasts
kt.academy explains how and why Jetpack Compose's snapshot state system uses remember under the hood.
Dave Leeds demonstrates what Kotlin Flow operators can do that standard collections cannot.
Philipp Lackner shares his top strategy for managing and splitting oversized ViewModels.
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Katie Barnett explains why LocalResources.current should be used over LocalContext.current when accessing resources in Compose, to correctly handle configuration changes.
Alexey Zinchenko shows how to add JBox2-powered physics simulations to Jetpack Compose and Compose Multiplatform projects using PhysicsBox.
Piotr Prus shows how to implement velocity-driven rotational motion blur on a spinning Compose canvas, using an AGSL RuntimeShader on API 33+ with a ghost-layer fallback for older versions.
Kirk Agbenyegah demonstrates how to implement timeline hover preview thumbnails in a media player using Jetpack Media3.
Kirill Rozov introduces a set of Detekt static analysis rules for enforcing best practices when using the Koin dependency injection framework.
The WHOOP engineering team shares how they reduced excessive wake lock sessions by over 90% using WorkManager and Android Vitals.
Trevor Johns shares expert tips from Google engineers and GDEs for getting the most out of Gemini in Android Studio, including Agent Mode and the New Project Assistant.
Google introduces Android Bench, a new benchmark suite for evaluating the quality of AI-assisted Android development tools.
Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya walks through how Meta integrated Jetpack Media3's PreloadManager to achieve true instant video playback in Facebook and Instagram.
Gustavo Fão Valvassori examines the trade-offs of using AndroidX ViewModel in Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
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Libraries & Code
A Gradle plugin that simplifies deeplink routing by matching URLs to Android navigation destinations.
A macOS menu bar app for quickly launching and managing Android Virtual Devices without opening Android Studio.
A library providing a consistent and reliable API for installing and uninstalling APKs on Android.
An open-source on-device face liveness detection library for Android.
A browser-based playground for writing, testing, and sharing custom Android Lint rules with live SARIF output.
A Jetpack Compose library providing a lazy adaptive grid layout for building responsive UIs across different screen sizes.
News
Google details the Google Play wake lock enforcement rollout and best practices for reducing excessive partial wake lock usage.
Google announces expanded billing choice, a Registered App Stores program, and reduced service fees on Google Play.
Google releases Android Studio Panda 2 stable, with an AI-powered New Project flow that generates a working app from a single prompt.
Google announces connected display support is generally available in Android 16 QPR3, enabling desktop windowing on external monitors.
Videos & Podcasts
Coding with the Italians explores Android's Tracing 2.0 API for simplified performance tracing with guest Rahul Ravikumar.
Kotlin by JetBrains covers the key AGP 9.0 changes for Kotlin projects, including built-in Kotlin support and migration to the new Android KMP library plugin.
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Jaewoong Eum examines the experimental Compose Styles API for declarative, interaction-aware styling with automatic animations and efficient modifier invalidation.
Tezov explores how Koin actually works by observing what happens when dependencies are resolved at runtime.
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Fredrick Chibuzor Osuala recommends pure Kotlin ViewModels with platform-owned scope and lifecycle wrappers to keep commonMain independent and interop predictable.
Sasha Denisov outlines on-device RAG using local embeddings plus vector search.
Adit Lal shows Play Store ART verify mode plus R8 full mode can trigger a Firebase init race.
Annyce Davis considers how Compose removes cognitive drag, speeding up debugging, previews, and testing.
Eevis Panula adds accessible navigation to a Compose large-content viewer.
Adit Lal highlights Compose’s new Styles API as a declarative styling layer that cuts boilerplate.
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Libraries & Code
A Gradle plugin that acts as a powerful gatekeeper for your project's dependencies.
News
Google previews Android 17 Beta 2, centered on new system pickers, cross-device handoff, and privacy tightening.
Google introduces AppFunctions and an AI-driven UI automation framework so Gemini and other agents can discover, invoke, and complete Android app tasks.
Videos & Podcasts
Dave Leeds shows how your experience with collections and sequences can make it easy for you to start working with Flows.
Jov Mit shows how to navigate back sending results using Navigation 3.
Philipp Lackner goes over the 5 most common state management approaches for Jetpack Compose and rank them from S-tier to F-tier.
Events
Discover the complete agenda and full speaker lineup for KotlinConf’26. Explore the keynote, workshops, and hands-on sessions led by industry experts. Plan your experience, bookmark must-see talks, and get ready for an inspiring Kotlin journey!
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Zac Sweers reframes the DI debate as compile-time graph construction versus runtime service lookup, arguing the real tradeoff is explicitness and build cost versus runtime risk, testing friction, and scaling pain.
Jesse Wilson urges folks to oppose Google’s ID and fee based Android developer verification as an anti-competitive lock that enables software blocking.
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Andrius Semionovas and Heorhii Popov explain how migrating a huge codebase from Dagger and Anvil to Metro unlocked K2 and improved build times despite significant tooling and legacy hurdles.
Adit Lal demonstrates making stickers feel physical in Compose Multiplatform through custom gestures, springy peel interactions, and die cut visuals backed by persistent state.
In Android 17, apps targeting SDK 37 or higher will receive a new implementation of MessageQueue where the implementation is lock-free.
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Libraries & Code
A modular Android debugging toolkit and network inspector built with Clean Architecture and Jetpack Compose — designed for zero-impact production builds.
Detekt rules for Koin DI
Fast, lightweight, and scriptable CLI for Google Play Console
News
To help streamline the transition from Java to Kotlin for VS Code users, Jetbrains introduces the Java to Kotlin (J2K) converter extension.
Google I/O streams May 19-20 with Gemini and agentic coding highlights alongside major Android and broader product updates.
Keep Android Open argues Google’s 2026 verification mandate will centralize app installation behind paid, identity-verified registration, undermining Android’s openness.
Videos & Podcasts
Philipp Lackner showcase 5 different issues that can break performance in your Compose app. Make sure to look at these first when running into performance problems.
Sergio Sastre teaches how to read pull request review comments and use GitHub MCP with Gemini to automatically generate the corresponding Android code.
Join hosts Tor and Romain as they sit down with Søren Gjesse, Chris Craik, and Shai Barack to dive into R8.
In this episode of Code With The Italians, try something a little different: Let's build a custom Android Lint rule using Gemini inside Android Studio.
Sit down with Paweł Kwieciński from Masabi to explore how they brought a decade-old Java codebase to Kotlin Multiplatform, powering ticket validation across mobile apps, embedded devices, and backend systems
This fireside chat explores Gemini's unique integration, its ability to build entire apps, and strategies for managing AI-generated code.
Specials
Arnaud Giuliani says AI will accelerate technical debt unless teams design for meaning and architecture before prompting.
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Jaewoong Eum dives deep into the internal mechanisms of the kotlinx.serialization compiler plugin.
Abhi says Compose "retain" lets you drop ViewModel ceremony by retaining simple injectable presenters and cleaning them up via RetainObserver.
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Oğuzhan Aslan takes a closer look at the new Embedded Photo Picker.
Miguel Montemayor says Android 17 targeting forces large screen resizability and orientation support, pushing apps to adopt adaptive layouts, resilient camera previews, and robust state handling.
Leonidas Partsas implements a custom TopAppBarScrollBehavior that translates RecyclerView scroll into smooth collapse and expansion without partial rendering.
Pamela Hill says iOS-targeted multi-module KMP apps need an umbrella framework to prevent stdlib duplication and incompatible binaries across modules.
Mark Murphy warns that Android 17 Beta 1 mainly adds behavior hardening that can break apps using a small set of rare features.
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Google says Android 17 Beta 1 mostly advances adaptability and media, connectivity, and companion device tooling alongside ongoing privacy, security, and performance work.
Videos & Podcasts
Dave Leeds explores a Kotlin feature change allowing return keywords in expression bodies.
Amit Shekhar provides a detailed comparison of Retrofit and OkHttp, two popular libraries used by Android developers for networking.
Philipp Lackner explores the Media3 library along with its Jetpack Compose toolkit to build a custom-styled video player with our own UI letting you control media playback.
Alan Viverette and Aurimas Liutikas discuss the challenges and evolution of API design, particularly within the Android ecosystem.
Stevdza-San examines the new Koin Kotlin compiler plugin, which brings auto-detect constructor parameter features and compile-time code transformation, catching errors during the build process
Peter Friese and Marina Coelho attempting to port their "Make It So" to-do list app from iOS to Android using AI-powered coding agents, specifically Antigravity and Stitch
Daniel Atitienei presents a detailed AI-powered workflow for developing and launching profitable apps as a solo developer
Philipp Lackner explains structured concurrency in Kotlin coroutines, using a cooking analogy to illustrate concurrency concepts.
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Shipping white-label apps used to mean repeating the same steps and signing in and out of Google Play Console dozens of times per release. With Runway, ship everything in one place, just once.
Yassine Sayah shows that adding extraBufferCapacity is essential when using tryEmit on SharedFlow to avoid silently dropped events with active collectors.
Arnaud Giuliani announces a native Kotlin Compiler Plugin that brings compile-time safety and auto-wiring to your dependency injection.
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Cedric Ferry shows how ServiceLoader plus Koin module providers enable runtime wiring of feature implementations while the app depends only on API modules for compile-time decoupling.
Ayush Bansal shows CompositionLocal values are attached to a node and resolved by upward lookup, so only composables that read them recompose.
Marcin Moskała explains modern Compose stability as reference versus equality change checks under Strong Skipping Mode, with automatic lambda memoization reducing unnecessary recompositions.
Tezov's fifth part of an educational series about dependency injection with Kotlin and Koin. This part introduces a small but important evolution: linked scopes.
rains shows how Koog’s built-in ACP support makes Kotlin agents IDE-connectable through IntelliJ AI Chat with minimal glue code.
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JetBrains outlines the Kotlin Foundation mentorship pilot that pairs maintainers with newcomers to land a meaningful merged contribution and strengthen Kotlin open source.
Videos & Podcasts
Jov Mit covers refactorings that are a important for every Android developer.
Upgrading Android Gradle Plugin from 8 to 9 in Compose Multiplatform is not a trivial update, so Mykola Miroshnychenko walks you through the necessary changes.
Philipp Lackner shows how we can encrypt and decrypt local preferences in Kotlin Multiplatform for Android, iOS and desktop.
Philipp Lackner goes over what has changed in the Kotlin ecosystem in January 2026.
Walk through the full pipeline: tokenization, embeddings, inference — so you understand it well enough to explain it. Walk away with a mental model that you can use for your next dinner party.
Sebastian and Márton host a special, audio-only episode where they discuss everything that’s new and noteworthy in the Kotlin 2.3 release.
Specials
Eugene Petrenko shows how git alternates enable cheap full repo forks that avoid worktree limitations for parallel or agent-driven development.
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Jaewoong Eum discusses shared internal as a transitive, opt-in cross-module visibility level that replaces friend modules without widening your public API.
Burak Karaduman advises using explicit @field or @param targets to avoid Kotlin 2.2 KT-73255 surprises for constructor property annotations.
JetBrains teaches adding threshold-based history compression to Koog strategies so coding agents keep essential decisions without exceeding context limits.
KMP Bits explains Compose Navigation shared element transitions using a SharedTransitionScope and stable keys to avoid flaky recomposition bugs.
JetBrains frames Qodana as CI-first Kotlin inspection enforcement for Android teams that scales code quality without replacing Android Lint.
Google’s embedded photo picker lets apps offer in-place, cloud-aware media selection with scoped URI grants, eliminating photo permissions for Android 14+ devices.
Kartikey Rawat outlines LiteRT CompiledModel as a compile-and-cache runtime that auto-targets CPU, GPU, or NPU with zero-copy I/O for lower-latency on-device inference.
sinasamaki demonstrates configuring ChromaDial with degree-based state, custom ranges, multi-turn visuals, and snapping, plus a finish callback for costly side effects.
Santiago Mattiauda outlines AGP 9.0 upgrade essentials: built-in Kotlin, androidComponents, and KMP module separation via multi-platform library.
Ahmed Nassar presents Koin-first DI as a KMP architectural contract that keeps the dependency graph in shared code and reduces platforms to simply starting it.
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Libraries & Code
Beautiful & customizable circular dial components for Compose Multiplatform
News
Google highlights Play Console monetization updates that pair faster financial reporting with actionable recommendations and programmatic Orders API access.
Videos & Podcasts
All the presentations from droidcon London 2025
Dave Leeds shows you what Explicit Backing Fields are, when you'll want to use them, and what to look out for.
Philipp Lackner explains why the base class pattern is an anti-pattern on Android and KMP.
Daniel Atitienei demonstrates AppScreens, which helps generate App Store screenshots more easily than opening up Figma or Photoshop.
Vanessa Johnson discusses why implementing accessibility is easier than people think, especially with modern tools like the Kotlin semantics modifier in Jetpack Compose.
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Alex Zhukovich explains how to give descriptive names to Compose preview states instead of index-based default names.
Tezov shows how Koin uses interfaces and qualifiers to inject specific implementations of the same contract in Kotlin.
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An Android developer's guide to React Native explores the mental shift from Android. Whether from View/XML or Jetpack Compose, learn how React components map to Android's Activities and Intents, discover Flexbox vs XML layouts, and understand state management. Read the full guide.
Teodor Irkhin and Thorben Janssen advise modelling JPA entities as open mutable classes using compiler plugins, not Kotlin data classes or val.
Eugene Petrenko examines patterns that not only survived but have become fundamental to how we build modern JVM applications.
Eugene Petrenko used 16 AI agents to refactor docs around a single quick-start command, cutting length 39% and improving navigation for both humans and agents.
Shubham Panchal shows how to target Android, iOS, and Desktop (JVM) with platform-specific Text Sentiment Classifier APIs.
Roman Khrupa demonstrates a Compose Canvas sweepGradient animation that produces a tubelight-style neon scan.
Sehaj Kahlon demystifies Kotlin’s Suspicious Indentation warning so you catch newline-terminated statements that look like continuations.
Domen Lanišnik shows how Material 3 SwipeToDismissBox handles swipe-to-dismiss or update interactions in Compose lists.
Stevan Milovanovic writes about building generative, multimodal features on Android without managing backend infrastructure.
Andrew Malitchuk introduces YARC, an Emmet-like DSL plugin that generates Compose UI trees from abbreviations.
Jesse Wilson warns that blocking inside suspend functions breaks coroutines and shows why suspend functions must always suspend rather than block.
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Libraries & Code
Yet Another Rapid Compose - build Jetpack Compose layouts effortlessly with an intelligent shorthand generator.
News
Google adds Play Console Save for later so you can hold back selected changes and submit only what is ready for review.
Simon Vergauwen reveals Exposed 1.0 with R2DBC support and a stable API that ensures no breaking changes until the next major version.
Videos & Podcasts
Kaushik Gopal and Iury Souza map AI coding into four paradigms so experienced developers can align tooling choices.
Kotlin 2.3 is packed with nice updates: new language features like the unused return value checker and explicit backing fields, and a lot more.
Jov Mit shows how to handle Deep Links with Navigation 3
Explore the brand new "Agent Skills" feature in the Gemini CLI. If you've been stuffing everything into a massive GEMINI.md file, you're doing it the hard way.
Philipp Lackner shows the core changes of Gradle 9 to KMP projects, so you can migrate your own projects.
Stop using LaunchedEffect for passing an Argument to a ViewModel
Learn how Skills solve the problem of context bloat by using progressive disclosure
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An Android developer's guide to React Native breaks down the mental shift, from XML & Activities to components, hooks and state management - especially if you’re coming from View-based or Jetpack Compose. Read the full guide.
Tezov outlines a minimal Koin configuration approach tailored for Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
Sebastian Sellmair and Azat Abdullin describe stable Compose Hot Reload 1.0 enabling zero-configuration dynamic UI updates in Compose Multiplatform.
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Luca presents NavEntryScope to bridge Hilt’s scope gaps and manage shared dependencies per navigation entry.
Bruno Lannoo shows how delegation and sub-agents help structure scalable AI agent architectures in Kotlin.
Márton Braun explains the essential changes developers must apply to keep Android projects compatible with Android Gradle Plugin 9.
Suhyeon Kim showcases a declarative haptic-feedback library that makes implementing cross-platform tactile interactions in Compose Multiplatform easy.
Anshul Vyas breaks down how Kotlin’s in, out, and reified generics enable safer, more flexible type-safe code with examples.
Nav Singh showcases Material3 ListItem upgrades, adding segmented variants and integrated selection and click behaviors with expressive elevation, shape, and motion support.
Angélica Oliveira and Aline Ayres explain configuring Android Studio’s AI with MCP servers, alternate models, and prompt libraries to enhance development workflows.
Vasya Drobushkov clarifies cancellation and exception handling in Kotlin coroutines and suggests relying on safe return types over exceptions.
Victor Brandalise outlines practical techniques to minimize unnecessary recompositions in Jetpack Compose for better performance.
Segun Famisa shows how custom text rendering in Compose enables deeper control using TextMeasurer and Canvas.
Joe Birch demonstrates a responsive Compose TabRow that adapts layout based on available space.
Eevis Panula shows how Compose layouts can adapt content structure, not just text size, to improve accessibility.
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Libraries & Code
Customizable Fling Physics for Jetpack Compose. Take full control of scroll momentum in LazyColumn, LazyRow, Pagers, and more with 9+ presets, snap behavior, and adaptive physics.
Mozart is a library that allows you to create Android Live Wallpapers using Jetpack Compose.
Declarative Haptic Feedback Library for Compose Multiplatform
News
Elvira Mustafina introduces Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 with performance, API, and stability improvements across all supported platforms.
Android Gradle plugin 9.0 is a major release that brings API and behavior changes.
Google introduces more flexible LLM selection and enhanced Agent Mode capabilities in Android Studio to support complex, multi-step developer workflows.
Videos & Podcasts
Discover the new features and updates in Android Studio Otter Feature Drops 1, 2, and 3.
Join hosts Tor, Chet, and Romain as they sit down with Diego Perez (Android Studio) and Patrick Fuentes (Developer Relations) to explore the new frontiers of Android XR.
We know we're not supposed to use `GlobalScope`. Dave Leeds examines what CoroutineScope we should use instead.
Fragmented is changing. New direction, new cohost. Kaushik explains the pivot from Android to AI development and introduces Iury Souza.
Philipp Lackner talks about which navigation library in Jetpack Compose is recommended in a real production Android app in early 2026.
Angélica Oliveira and Aline Ayres show how to enhance Android Studio AI with MCP servers, external models, and custom prompt libraries.
Specials
Chet Haase tells a "fictional" podcast origin story to reflect on how creative projects change once reality meets initial enthusiasm.
Paul Samuels shares insights from evolving a developer tool to improve developer experience by reducing friction, enhancing usability, and fostering broader contribution
JetBrains is running a quick 3-minute survey for Android developers about cross-platform development, including Kotlin-based code sharing: what you’ve heard of, how you feel about different approaches, and what influences the decision to use them (or not). As a thank you, thoughtful responses can enter a raffle to win either a $50 Amazon gift card or a 6-month JetBrains All Products Pack subscription.
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