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September 20th, 2026
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Oğuzhan Aslan explains LiteRT-LM's Engine/Session model for on-device chat, covering streaming, tool calling, multimodal input, and thinking mode.
Rotem Meidan examines why Chrome, Firefox, WhatsApp, and Discord split Android apps into separate processes for isolation and recovery.
Jaewoong Eum walks through building custom purchase flows and paywalls with RevenueCat's Android Purchases SDK.
Akshay Nandwana builds a camera-aware Voice AI Android app using Agora Conversational AI, Gemini Live, and Jetpack Compose.
RayLabs examines native Android update options — In-App Updates, remote config, server-driven UI — and their security boundaries.
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Gradle explains prioritizing agent-facing skills and benchmarking over defaulting Configuration Cache in Gradle 10.
Google unveils Android Bench 2.0, adding long-horizon tasks, agentic evaluation, and continuous scoring for AI coding models.
Google releases stable AndroidX Security State libraries, giving apps component-level device patch and vulnerability visibility.
Touchlab releases Kermit 2.2.0, adding WasmWasi support plus a new kermit-coil module for routing Coil 3 logs.
JetBrains opens its annual Kotlin Developer Survey for feedback on the language and tooling.
Videos & Podcasts
Kotlin by JetBrains covers Kotlin 2.4.20's new standard library additions, iOS and Wasm/JS improvements.
Philipp Lackner demonstrates certificate pinning to protect Android app network traffic from man-in-the-middle attacks.
Firebase demonstrates generating low-latency Gemini text-to-speech audio with emotion control and multi-speaker dialogue via Firebase AI Logic.

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