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Jaewoong Eum traces the full pipeline from @Preview annotation to rendered pixels inside Android Studio.
James Cullimore's guide to improving your startup speed.
Nav Singh takes a quick look at name-based destructuring declarations.
Stefan examines how to use CompositionLocal.
Julien Salvi shows how to automate Android Vitals monitoring using the Play Developer Reporting API and a Gradle task.
Tim Malseed argues for learning coroutine testing fundamentals before reaching for Turbine, to avoid flaky, over-specified tests.
Saurabh Arora shows how to keep AI coding guidelines consistent across Android Studio, CLI tools, and CI bots using a git pre-commit hook.
Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform flight recorder for Compose apps that captures gestures, screen views, breadcrumbs, and crashes for replay and reporting.
A Compose Multiplatform navigation library built around pure reducers and immutable state for predictable, testable navigation on Android, iOS, and Desktop.
An MCP server that gives AI tools on-demand access to AOSP and AndroidX source code for accurate framework understanding.
A collection of AI agent skills for Kotlin projects, installable via the Agent Skills standard.
News
Google launches desktop experience design guidance and the Android Design Gallery for adaptive app development.
JetBrains releases Kotlin 2.3.20 with Gradle 9.3 compatibility, name-based destructuring, and new C/Objective-C interop.
The Kotlin Foundation announces participation in GSoC 2026, with four projects open for contributor applications until March 31.
Google announces an advanced sideloading flow and free limited-distribution accounts as part of upcoming Android developer verification requirements.
JetBrains highlights selected talks from the full KotlinConf 2026 schedule, spanning language design, multiplatform, server-side, and AI.
Videos & Podcasts
Philipp Lackner covers six practical techniques for speeding up Gradle builds in Android projects.
Philipp Lackner tests the Figma MCP server to vibe-code Android UI designs using Claude Code.
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