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Jaewoong Eum explains how Compose hot reload works on real devices, covering its pipeline, supported changes, and instant literal patching.
Nav Singh explores Kotlin 2.4.0's new collection sorting-validation extensions that efficiently check ordering without resorting.
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Tezov show how with Koin annotations and the Koin compiler, you can completely bypass expect/actual.
Thomas Künneth explores Android's AppFunctions API for making app capabilities discoverable and executable by AI agents.
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Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform library providing JSON Pointer implementation and integration with Kotlin Serialization JSON.
A sample Android app for experimenting with on-device Gemini Nano via the ML Kit Prompt API.
Videos & Podcasts
Stevdza-San demonstrates how to set up and use a local database on the web target in Kotlin Multiplatform.
Philipp Lackner demonstrates how attackers can hack Android in-app purchases and how to protect against it.
Firebase covers the March highlights including AI Studio integration and hybrid AI inference for Android.
Sergio Sastre demonstrates using behavior tests as guardrails when refactoring Android code with Gemini in Android Studio.
Dave Leeds explores how coroutine context is preserved across multi-coroutine flows in Kotlin.
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