Issue #748

October 11th, 2026
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Joe Birch walks through building Pixelate, a Compose Multiplatform library that pixelates composables to mask premium content.
John O'Reilly walks through migrating the PeopleInSpace KMP sample from SKIE to Kotlin's new Swift export.
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Shiva Thapa walks through publishing one Kotlin Multiplatform library across Maven Central, SPM, pub.dev, npm, PyPI, and the web.
Ricardo Costeira explains cooperative coroutine cancellation and common mistakes that silently break it.
Manuel Lorenzo Parejo walks through running one Maestro flow across languages on iOS and Android, including common traps.
Konstantin Tskhovrebov shows how to profile Compose Multiplatform apps on Wasm, recovering stripped function names for deeper traces.
KMP Bits outlines a shared Analytics/CrashReporter contract in commonMain to stop Android and iOS telemetry events from drifting apart.
Gergely Orosz examines Firebase's global outage, Google's poor incident response, and why Android's SDK survived.
Sasha Denisov builds litetune to verify fine-tuned on-device models after conversion and quantization.
Adit Lal shares hard-won lessons on hooks, AI code review, and token costs from running Claude Code on a real Android app.
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Libraries & Code
A Compose Multiplatform library that pixelates composable content into a mosaic while preserving layout and data.
An Android library that captures and visualizes WebView JavaScript bridge messages in real time, Chucker-style.
A declarative Kotlin code generation API for building Kotlin source code programmatically, written in pure Kotlin.
A self-hosted App Store Optimization toolkit that tracks keyword rankings for Google Play and the App Store.
A Kotlin Multiplatform download manager library with parallel connections, pause/resume, queues, and speed limits.
News
JetBrains ships Kotlin Toolchain 0.13, now recommended for new KMP projects, with a new `kotlin new` setup flow, SwiftPM support, and Native compiler caching.
JetBrains discontinues Swift IDE features (editing, highlighting, navigation) in the Kotlin Multiplatform plugin, citing low usage.
Videos & Podcasts
Firebase's Roger covers September updates: spend caps, Remote Config pricing, AI Logic, auth event triggers, and App Check replay protection.
Philipp Lackner discusses Shopify's shift from React Native back to native Kotlin and Swift development.
Philipp Lackner introduces spec-driven development with OpenSpec for managing AI-assisted coding projects.