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Akshay Nandwana explores building a full Voice AI pipeline on Android, covering streaming audio capture, endpointing, and state management.
Thomas Künneth documents a week-long investigation into suppressing ChromeOS resize warnings for Android apps on ARC.
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KMP Bits walks through building a Gradle plugin that handles splash screen setup for both Android and iOS from a single Kotlin config block.
Adam McNeilly reflects on his Android career and why he's choosing human connection over AI-assisted development.
James Cullimore explores using Déjà vu to add recomposition assertions to a real Compose app, uncovering a tooling bug along the way.
Anand Gaur summarises every Google I/O 2026 announcement that matters to Android developers, from Android CLI to Compose-first tooling and Android 17.
Jaewoong Eum distills Google I/O 2026 into what changes daily Android work: Compose as the standard, Views in maintenance mode, Android CLI 1.0, and Play Billing 9.0.0 breaking changes.
Siarhei Krupenich explores how to adapt Android apps for TV, Auto, and Wear OS without falling into mobile-first assumptions.
Oğuzhan Aslan explains how Room database indices work under the hood and walks through single-column, composite, and unique index strategies.
Mike Yerou walks through Promies, a revamped promo code distribution system for Android app giveaways.
Akshay Nandwana highlights the 17 biggest Android announcements from Google I/O 2026, from AI-native experiences to Android 17 and AppFunctions.
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A web-based adb logcat viewer that streams Android device logs to your browser, with filters, regex search, and no IDE required.
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News
Google announces Wear OS 7 with up to 10% better battery life, Wear Widgets, Live Updates, and Gemini Intelligence on select watches.
JetBrains launches an official Kotlin extension for VS Code in alpha, powered by the Kotlin Language Server.
JetBrains Research shows Kotlin developers complete tasks 15–20% faster than Java, with Kotlin codebases barely slowing over time.
JetBrains introduces an 18-month security support policy for the Kotlin Standard Library's JVM runtime artifact.
JetBrains previews Kotlin 2.4.0, a unified Kotlin Toolchain, Language Server Alpha, and official VS Code support.
Google announces Android for Cars updates at I/O 2026, unifying Android Auto and Automotive OS with new Car App Library templates and components.
Google announces Play updates from I/O 2026, including app discovery in Gemini, Engage SDK expansions, and Play Shorts.
Google declares Compose the standard for all Android UI, placing View components and related Jetpack libraries in maintenance mode.
Google launches Android Performance Analyzer, a new open-beta profiler for CPU, GPU, memory, and power analysis on Android devices.
Google announces agentic Android Studio features at I/O, including Agent Skills, Firebase integration in Agent Mode, and Android CLI.
Google announces Android 17's adaptive-first standard, requiring apps to support diverse screen sizes across phones, foldables, tablets, and new Googlebook devices.
Google announces Android CLI 1.0 stable, bringing agent access to Android Studio capabilities and Antigravity 2.0 integration.
Google opens applications for the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program, offering hardware kits, technical support, and grants to developers building XR apps.
Google announces AI Studio can generate full native Kotlin/Compose Android apps from a prompt, with browser-based emulator, device install, and Play publishing.
Google announces new Google TV developer tools for app discoverability, Gemini integration, and pointer remote support.
Google recaps 17 key Google I/O announcements for Android developers, covering agentic workflows, tooling, and ecosystem updates.
Google announces ADK for Kotlin and ADK for Android 0.1.0, enabling multi-agent AI systems on-device and in the cloud.
Videos & Podcasts
Android Developers playlist covers all 24 Google I/O 2026 Android sessions, from platform updates to AI and Compose.
Marcin Moskała explains how to use the Kotlin Duration API, how it works, and why it's useful.
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