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Marco Gomiero reflects on ten years of his RSS-Parser library, tracing its evolution from Java to Kotlin Multiplatform.
Maia walks through migrating her Android TagSpotter app to KMP across iOS, Desktop, and Android in a weekend using Antigravity and parallel subagents.
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Ivan Mikhailuts explains how he built an Android Studio plugin offering live AGSL shader preview, uniform controls, and full editor support.
James Cullimore shows how to use Compose Previews as the source of truth for screenshot testing across locales, font scales, and string-key display mode.
Jaewoong Eum explains Jetpack Compose internals — compiler transformations, the SlotTable, snapshot state, and the single-pass layout pipeline — traced through AOSP source.
Swapnil Gupta shares an honest 11-week review of Android Journeys powered by Gemini, covering CI setup challenges, test writing lessons, and production results.
Marcin Moskała explains why truly learning Kotlin requires letting go of Java preconceptions rather than treating it as syntactic sugar.
KMP Bits shows how Coil 3 simplifies cross-platform image loading and caching in Compose Multiplatform for Android and iOS.
Jaewoong Eum introduces Compose HotSwan v2, which enables full-screen structural hot reloads in native Jetpack Compose without app restarts.
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Libraries & Code
A Kotlin Multiplatform library for VIN decoding, validation, and NHTSA API integration, targeting Android, iOS, and JVM.
A Gradle plugin that bakes runtime self-protection into your APK, detecting root, hooks, clones, and tampering entirely on-device.
News
Google announces Android XR Developer Preview 4 with new tooling, Unreal Engine and Godot support, and glasses-focused APIs.
Google releases Android 17, introducing adaptive-first large-screen requirements, on-device AI via AppFunctions, and next-generation privacy and performance.
Google announces Android developer verification launches September 2026 in four countries, with new bulk-registration APIs and a 2027 global rollout.
Google previews the Geospatial API in ARCore for Jetpack XR, demonstrating a Gemini-powered immersive walking tour app.
Mark Murphy considers whether Maven Central's dominance over artifact distribution creates unhealthy ecosystem centralization.
Jake Wharton announces Retrofit, OkHttp, Okio, and SQLDelight are moving to the Commonhaus Foundation under the new lysine.dev organisation.
Videos & Podcasts
Dave Leeds covers Kotlin 2.4's new Collection Literals, letting you declare collections with bracket syntax.
Android Developers rounds up the latest Android XR development updates, tools, and resources for building immersive apps.
Android Developers shows how to build and test Android XR apps without any physical hardware.
Kotlin by JetBrains marks 15 years of Kotlin by showing how its principles of conciseness and efficiency play out in everyday situations.
Android Developers covers building Android XR apps with Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot using the new XR Engine Hub and Interaction Framework.
Philipp Lackner discusses why AI tooling is likely to improve rather than degrade overall codebase quality.
Kotzilla demonstrates diagnosing and fixing Android ANRs and slow screens using their MCP server with session data.
Android Developers summarizes the latest updates and tools for building Android XR apps in 2026.
Code with the Italians live-streams building an Android app and learning Jetpack Compose from scratch.
Android Developers covers the five key AOSP updates landing with Android 17, from adaptive layouts to granular privacy pickers.
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