This post recounts our difficult but rewarding journey of building one of our most popular features - Session Replay - for Android. Session Replay is one of many features teams rely on to run mobile observability with Bitdrift. Read more on our process & unique approach to observability here.
Ioannis Anifantakis explores how Kotlin’s inline and reified keywords address type erasure, and provides a practical guide on using noinline and crossinline modifiers to control lambda inlining behavior.
Monika Kumar Jethani discusses how Google’s Dynamic Delivery utilizes advanced capabilities of app bundles, allowing certain features of your app to be delivered conditionally or downloaded on demand.
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Narayan Panthi explains how to implement per-app language preferences in Jetpack Compose, covering locale configuration, storage, and a custom language picker.
Nirav Tukadiya highlights seven powerful Kotlin features, including enhanced error handling, type safety, optimized collections, and better state management in Jetpack Compose.
Alejandra Stamato explains how the READ_MEDIA_IMAGES permission in Android can cause release issues, including blocking deployment to the Alpha channel.
Philippe Boisney explores advanced navigation strategies in Jetpack Compose for multi-module projects, proposing a dedicated module to manage public routes and nested graphs.
Andrei Beriukhov discusses scalability challenges in adopting Kotlin Multiplatform for a large project, focusing on library migration and native integration.
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The Kotlin Foundation is once again participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), offering contributors an opportunity to work on open-source projects that shape the Kotlin ecosystem.
Arnaud Giuliani discusses the inception of Koin, a lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin, and shares insights into dependency injection practices on the Kotlin Khronicles podcast.
Matt McKenna provides a visual explanation of GitHub’s merge strategies—merge commit, squash and merge, and rebase and merge—illustrating how each affects commit history and project workflows.
