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Tom Mulcahy describes how blocking in AOSP’s USB stack caused Android app freezes, and how Block’s upstream Android 16 patches resolved it, boosting performance by ~40%.
Pouya Heydari shows how to secure Room by generating an SQLCipher passphrase, storing it with EncryptedSharedPreferences, and configuring Room with a SupportFactory to enable transparent encryption.
Jaewoong Eum highlights Billing Library 8’s key changes—more flexibility for one‑time purchases, non‑expiring subs, improved error responses and removed deprecated queries—with seamless support through RevenueCat SDK v9.0.0
Nikhil Mandlik demonstrates creating retro-style text in Compose by rendering text into a bitmap, downscaling to a dot‑matrix, and drawing visible pixels as colored dots.
Iago Fucolo demonstrates migrating a fragment-based navigation flow to Navigation 3 using Compose screens, NavDisplay, mutable back stack, and entry decorators for state and transitions.
Sahil Thakar explains how to cancel Kotlin Flows reliably using cooperative cancellation, Flow operators, and lifecycle-aware scopes to avoid leaks and improve performance.
Dmitry Glazunov highlights misuse of Kotlin’s inline, crossinline, and reified modifiers that can damage debuggability, cause unintended API leaks, or lead to performance surprises.
Richa Sharma explains that Compose’s SideEffect API lets you safely run non‑suspending operations after every successful recomposition to maintain predictable UI‑state interactions.
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Learn how to use Android live updates and widgets to create rich user experiences! In this video, see notifications (progress style template & live updates) and widgets (canonical layouts & generated previews).
