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Android observability with Hilt: Kotzilla SDK and MCP Server on Google's Now in Android app

Miguel Valdes Faura walks through adding Kotzilla SDK observability to Google's Hilt-based Now in Android app

The Great Android Stack Reset: Mobile System Design History

Rotem Meidan traces Android's repeated architecture resets, from Activity-era God Objects to today's declarative stack

Fun Animations with Mesh Gradients: Jetpack Compose 1.12

Kevin Desai builds an animated water mesh gradient in Compose 1.12, optimizing the wave math for performance

Lights Out: Automatic Skeleton Loading in Compose Multiplatform

KMP Bits builds a Compose Multiplatform skeleton modifier with one shared shimmer clock instead of many

Signatures, be true: domain errors and functional handling in Kotlin

Viliam Sedliak shows how sealed interfaces and Either model domain errors directly in Kotlin function signatures

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Libraries & Code

kwery

A Kotlin library that manages server state for Android, handling caching, dedup, and offline write replay

droidgauge

A local-first CLI tool that captures Android performance and power regressions via adb into shareable reports

kmprofiler

A Gradle plugin that profiles Kotlin Multiplatform iOS export surfaces to find dead Objective-C adapters and leaked symbols

News

Klibs.io Grows to 4,200+ KMP Projects With Smarter Discovery and New AI Integrations

JetBrains grows klibs.io past 4,200 KMP projects, adding an MCP server and AI-agent integrations for library discovery

Tinder cuts app cold starts by 47% with new R8 Configuration Analyzer

Google details how Tinder used the new R8 Configuration Analyzer to cut cold starts 47% and shrink app size

Jetpack XR SDK core libraries reach beta: The next milestone for Android XR

Google announces Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and XR Runtime reaching beta for Android XR development

Preparing your app for broader memory limits

Google details expanding per-app memory limits across all RAM classes and how to profile and optimize memory footprint

Videos & Podcasts

Let's see how you code when nobody's watching!

Stevdza-San reviews viewer-submitted Android app projects, offering live code feedback and suggestions

All platforms are unique but some platforms are more unique than others

Konstantin Tskhovrebov covers the unique challenges of supporting Compose Multiplatform's web target

New Performance Challenges in the Agentic Era for Android Builds - Inaki Villar - droidcon USA 2026

Inaki Villar explores emerging performance pressures on Android build systems from agentic AI-driven development workflows

Vertical vs. Horizontal Slicing - The ONLY Right Way to Split Down Your App

Philipp Lackner compares vertical and horizontal slicing strategies for structuring large Android app projects

KMP at Scale in Kuaishou Super App for over 700M users

Omico Wang shows how Kuaishou scaled Kotlin Multiplatform across live streaming, messaging, and social features

The Backend Immune System - Rich Errors, Ktor Observability and Safe Local Remediation

Meike Hammer presents a Kotlin-native resilience pattern using rich errors, Ktor observability, and local automated remediation

The Multi-Agent Code Review Workflow For My Production Android Apps

Philipp Lackner demonstrates his multi-agent AI code review workflow for production Android apps

PUBG MOBILE connects players with Level Up

Android Developers shows how PUBG Mobile integrated Google Play Games' Level Up program to boost player engagement

Building a cooking assistant with Firebase AI Logic

Marina demonstrates building a real-time cooking assistant using Firebase AI Logic's Gemini Live API and function calling

SwiftPM support for Kotlin Multiplatform

Timofey Solonin demonstrates importing SwiftPM dependencies like Firebase and Google Maps into Kotlin Multiplatform

Teaching Kotlin for the AI Era: Tips, Tools, and Practical Insights

Daniil Karol discusses how AI is reshaping the way Kotlin programming should be taught today

Advanced Kotlin Native Integration - Tadeas Kriz

Tadeas Kriz examines the challenges of linking multiple Kotlin Native binaries within a single project

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