Issue #744

September 13th, 2026
Articles & Tutorials
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Thomas Künneth examines Android's AppFunctions architecture and agent distribution claims behind Google's "intelligent system" framing.
KMP Bits explains adding an annotation-based API layer atop NetFlow's DSL, keeping compile-time-checked mapping and paging support intact.
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Jaewoong Eum explains building custom Rive and Lottie animated components for RevenueCat's server-driven Android paywalls.
Farhad Ranjbar explores the architecture challenges of building an offline speech-recognition engine inside an Android keyboard.
Timofey Krestyanov explains blurring content behind a Compose dialog across window boundaries, down to API 23.
Jaewoong Eum introduces Compose HotSwan 2.0's own interpreter engine, enabling structural hot reload across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
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Libraries & Code
A Compose Multiplatform country calling-code picker with search, flags, formatting, and phone validation for Android and iOS.
A Compose Multiplatform library for building coach marks, product tours, and onboarding spotlight overlays.
An open-source MVVM architecture demo app showcasing atomic design, lint rules, and BDD tests for Android and iOS.
A full Kotlin Multiplatform port of Google's Now in Android sample, running on Android, iOS, desktop, and web.
A Jetpack Compose library that gives you full control over overscroll effects and their visuals.
A Kotlin Multiplatform library that backs up app data to the user's own iCloud or Google Drive, no server required.
A Kotlin Multiplatform library that hands off typed data and images to native Glance and WidgetKit widgets.
AppCommand by Olli Zieger helps you to quickly run commands (like switching from light to dark mode) on multiple emulated devices. This saves a lot of time with manual clicking.
News
JetBrains releases Kotlin 2.4.20, with coroutine stack trace recovery, Swift export improvements, and Gradle 9.7.0 support.
Google introduces ADB Wi-Fi 2.0, a reworked wireless debugging stack improving connection reliability and speed.
Videos & Podcasts
Philipp Lackner shows how Compose's new grid layout works and reduces nested rows and columns.
Yuri Schimke introduces RemoteCompose, walking through state, expressions, actions, and components for remote UI surfaces.
Philipp Lackner explains why modularity, not specific patterns like MVVM or MVI, is what makes architecture effective.
Rahul and Tunji demonstrate high-performance multiplatform graphic rendering techniques in Jetpack Compose, avoiding GIF and Lottie tradeoffs.
Rooz SF and Jonathan Schneider demonstrate automating Kotlin 2 upgrades using OpenRewrite's refactoring engine.
Mohamed Ben Rejeb demonstrates Calf, an open-source library giving Compose Multiplatform apps a native iOS look.
Aleksei Zinovev shows how to turn personal location data into private geospatial analytics using Kotlin DataFrame and Kandy.
Developer Observability for Mobile Apps demonstrates Koin Compiler Plugin 1.2 validating dependency injection graphs at compile time.
Stevdza-San traces how Kotlin became Android's dominant development language over Java.
Brian Norman previews Kotlin 2.4's Power-Assert improvements, covering simpler Gradle setup and better library integration.