Issue #751

November 1st, 2026
Articles & Tutorials
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Arda Kazancı examines how Jetpack AppState's StateStore and Transform could share subscription state with playback.
Kevin Schildhorn explains how to harden Turbine tests for Flows, covering StateFlow, events, and sync points.
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KMP Bits walks through a three-job GitHub Actions CI setup for Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
Manuel Mato walks through building a holographic foil effect with AGSL shaders in Jetpack Compose.
Katie Barnett shows how to enable or disable Android AppFunctions at runtime based on user consent or feature toggles.
Arda Kazancı explains how StackTraceRecoverable keeps custom exception data intact during coroutine stack trace recovery.
Jaewoong Eum examines when KSP fits code generation and where its incremental model stops.
Mkhytar Mkhoian outlines a vendor-agnostic analytics architecture for modular Android apps, splitting events, factories, and trackers.
Kaustubh Deshmukh examines four easy-to-miss Kotlin Flow bugs around collection, catch placement, conflation, and stateIn.
Daniel Voko outlines how a real Android app became KMP-ready through early modular architecture and portable library choices.
Arda Kazancı examines Kotlin 2.5's experimental full value classes and value objects for Android developers.
Mayank Kumar maps out Android developer skills, interview topics, and AI's role for 2027.
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Libraries & Code
A Jetpack Compose calendar library offering month, week and year views, Material 3 theming and date range selection.
A Kotlin compiler plugin that adds compile-time aspect-oriented programming to Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
A Kotlin analytics library that sends app events to Firebase, Adjust, Mixpanel and other vendors at once.
A Compose Multiplatform library that dithers UI elements, with modifiers and components for Android, iOS, desktop and web.
News
Google releases stable Android Studio Rabbit 2, adding Bring Your Own Agent, XR emulators, and AI change review.
Google rounds up Android Dev Summit developer tools and performance announcements, including agent integrations and Android CLI.
Google announces broad availability of Android Studio and Android CLI tools, plus new agentic APIs and XR updates.
Videos & Podcasts
Playlist of droidCon Berlin 2026 conference talks.
Playlist with all sessions from Android Dev Summit 2026, from the keynote to the technical tracks.
Philipp Lackner shows how to integrate on-device AI agents with native tool calling into Android and iOS apps.
Philipp Lackner shows how mutation testing checks the quality of AI-written tests in Kotlin.
Phil Burk discusses low-latency real-time audio across platforms and how Kotlin fits into audio development.
Kotlin by JetBrains features Ross on Kotlin's journey from 2011 contributions to long-term language design and type architecture.
The Developers' Bakery talks with Ivan Morgillo about using AI agents to automate tedious development work.