Issue #681

June 29th, 2025
Articles & Tutorials
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Mickco Lai presents a 5-minute guide to set up Gemini CLI for Android, covering installation, model control, and workspace-aware prompts via GEMINI.md.
Explore Samsung's One UI 7 Live Notifications and Now Bar, explaining how ongoing notifications gain enhanced visibility and control.
Anand Gaur shows how Credential Manager centralizes passkeys, passwords, and federated sign‑ins into a secure biometric-based login flow with synced credentials across Android devices.
Shakarim Bazhenov explains Kotlin’s value class offers type-safe wrappers over primitives with zero runtime overhead via inlining, detailing boxing cases and JvmInline usage.
A recap of the top 3 updates for Android Developer Productivity from Google I/O ‘25.
John O'Reilly explores Koog, a Kotlin-based AI agent framework, to generate Compose UI in Android Studio using LLMs and MCP server integrations.
Charles Muchene shows you how to eliminate the rebuild-test cycle when working with Android preferences. Pref Editor lets you modify values instantly.
Ignacio Carrión details using Proguard/R8, resource optimization, App Bundles, and monitoring for continuous Android app size reduction.
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News
Google introduces Agent Mode, enabling Gemini in Android Studio to handle complex tasks from natural-language prompts.
Announcing the Swift on Android Working Group, with the goal of establishing and maintaining Android as an officially supported platform for Swift.
The Kotlin 2.2.0 release is out! This version includes both new and stable language features, tooling updates, performance improvements for different platforms, and important fixes.
Videos & Podcasts
Learn how to test APIs without leaving Android Studio! For Free!
Philipp Lackner shares every major change about Android 16 with you so afterwards you'll clearly know what you have to adjust in your code.
Jov Mit's live stream recording, getting into creating custom shapes, clipping to custom shapes and auto sizing text in Compose.
Philipp Lackner teaches about all kinds of different ways to make your Compose Multiplatform UI dynamic and responsive while minimizing duplicate code.
Specials
Kaushik Gopal argues that AI enhances strong engineers but cannot replace human intuition and engineering judgment.