Issue #680

June 22nd, 2025
Articles & Tutorials
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Ignacio Carrión shows how Kotlin’s runCatching combined with the Result type enables clear, functional-style error handling—supporting chaining, recovery, and exception handling without verbose try/catch blocks.
Bryan Herbst explains how Compose 1.8.0's new autofill APIs are a big improvement for developers requiring significantly less code and offering more functionality.
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Jordi Coll Marin presents several effective strategies for reliably testing Lottie animations in Jetpack Compose UI tests.
Karishma Agrawal guides developers through implementing ConstraintLayout in Jetpack Compose, showing how it enables precise, flat, performant layouts ideal for complex UI scenarios.
Ashiq highlights that Navigation 3 enables state-driven, flexible navigation in Compose, offering improved predictability and alignment with modern Android app architecture.
Google highlights Gemini Nano for on-device ML, enhanced custom model support with AI Edge and Play for On-Device AI, and new cloud AI integrations using Firebase AI Logic.
Eevis Panula finds Cursor’s AI-generated Android apps often lack proper accessibility and lag behind tools like Gemini or Junie.
sinasamaki demonstrates how to animate and position text along any path in Jetpack Compose by leveraging the Path API for rotation, measurement, and curved text effects.
Joe Birch examines the new Material 3 Expressive LoadingIndicator in Compose, which uses animated polygons for more engaging loading states.
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Libraries & Code
Dead simple logging for Kotlin Multiplatform apps. Supports: Android, iOS, JVM, Browser (JS/WASM), NodeJS targets.
News
Jetbrains announces Ktor 3.2.0, adding typed configuration deserialization, new optional DI and HTMX modules, Gradle version catalog support, and Unix domain socket support for CIO with performance improvements.
Videos & Podcasts
Jov Mit's livestream recording working on optimizing recompositions & animations.
Daniel Atitienei shares an experience from the start of his freelancing career.
Seb, Roberto and Rebecca talk about the new Androidify sample app, launched at Google I/O. Find out about some fun behind the scenes facts, the many adaptive layout tricks used, and marvel at the many sweet sweet animations in the app.
Vulkan unlocks the potential of modern mobile graphics hardware, bringing new features, and increased performance.
Discover how major updates to Google Play Games on PC allows you to effortlessly expand your reach and maximize your game's potential
Miguel walks you through how you can detect and investigate the root cause of performance issues using the Timeline User Session View in the Kotzilla Platform.
Explore the core concepts of Jetpack Navigation 3 and how it simplifies navigation in Compose apps.
Philipp Lackner shows how you can set up your Material3 theme in Compose Multiplatform with colors, fonts and shapes.
Dan Galpin covers part two of the biggest announcements from Google I/O 2025. From Jetpack Compose, Camera and Media, accessibility, Kotlin Multiplatform, Android development tools, Google Play, and more.
Playlist of all the presentations from Android Makers by droidcon 2025