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Samuvel Pandian walks through DroidDoctor, a Python CLI using a 7-node LangGraph state machine to audit Android Gradle configs, manifests, deprecated APIs, and Compose adoption.
Hossain Khan explores two approaches to Compose-native syntax highlighting: a Shiki microservice and on-device TextMate grammars.
Sergey Drymchenko explores the architecture needed when Compose text fields must behave as a full block document editor.
Daniil Chernyaev builds a Gradle plugin that automatically surfaces dependency version conflicts and their full resolution paths on every sync.
Kevin Kimani shows how to instrument a Kotlin/Spring Boot service with OpenTelemetry tracing to go beyond basic logging in distributed systems.
Simon Topchyan assesses Google's experimental Foundation Style API and what it means for Compose design systems at scale.
Eevis Jonna shows how to build custom, accessible keyboard focus indicators in Jetpack Compose using the Indication API.
Dmytro Petrenko walks through SDK testing strategies, binary compatibility validation, and Maven Central publishing.
Jaewoong Eum demonstrates how Compose hot reload enables real-time animation parameter tuning without app rebuilds.
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Libraries & Code
A free, open-source Android compass and navigation app built with Jetpack Compose, supporting track recording, GPX export, and OpenStreetMap integration.
A Kotlin coroutines library for executing Android root commands, now rewritten with Flow-based streaming and libsu backend.
A Jetpack Compose library for physics-based particle animations, with Canvas and layout-based rendering engines.
A Gradle plugin that automatically detects major-version dependency conflicts during sync and shows full resolution paths.
A Gradle plugin that renders Jetpack Compose @Preview composables to PNG so AI coding agents can see what they're changing.
An open-source Android telemetry SDK that collects device integrity signals — root, hooking, bootloader, and emulator detection — as structured JSON.
A curated library of agent skills for diagnosing and fixing Jetpack Compose performance issues.
News
Zac Sweers announces Metro 1.0.0, a compile-time Kotlin DI framework offering 50–80% build time improvements over source-generation tools.
Videos & Podcasts
Android Developers team hosts an office hours session on optimizing and scaling app performance across the Android ecosystem.
Philipp Lackner demonstrates the new Android CLI tool and its most important commands for AI-first development setups.
Talking Kotlin covers the Exposed SQL framework reaching 1.0 and what comes next.
Philipp Lackner covers the latest Android dev news including major Compose API changes and the new Android Studio Panda release.
kt.academy covers why composition is preferred over inheritance in Kotlin and when each approach makes sense.
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