Issue #753

November 15th, 2026
Articles & Tutorials
Sponsored
Debugging mobile apps is weird: intermittent connections, mid-onboarding drop-offs, edge cases on devices you've never tested. bitdrift captures 100% of data, unsampled and in real time, so it’s immediately queryable by engineers and agents. Try bitdrift: mobile observability for the real world.
KMP Bits explores making Compose Multiplatform UIs accessible to TalkBack and VoiceOver through semantics and labels.
Donovan McMurray explains how SmileID used CameraX to scale identity verification across 18,000+ Android device types.
Leonidas Partsas outlines using Jev to triage PIT mutation testing reports for Kotlin projects.
Daniel Voko explains sharing Compose UI across Kotlin Multiplatform while keeping Roborazzi screenshot tests working.
Arda Kazancı explains why Compose text fields are moving to TextFieldState and how to structure it.
Jaewoong Eum examines why one tap in a Compose paywall costs hundreds of milliseconds.
Juan Silva explains how to port the Gooey text morphing effect to Compose using blur and threshold colour matrices.
Ravi Rawal explains how the UI thread and RenderThread split frame work, and why jank can persist.
Arda Kazancı explains type-safe deep links in Navigation 3 with matchers, custom serializers, and synthetic back stacks.
Wolfram Rittmeyer outlines the high-level architecture of the Compose runtime, from composition and recomposition to the snapshot system.
Wajahat Karim explains how an open-source agent skill generates Google Play data safety CSVs automatically.
Chetan Gupta examines where Kotlin Multiplatform developers write iOS code after IntelliJ drops Swift editing support.
Mayank Kumar explains how Kotlin data classes generate equals, copy, and componentN, and where they break.
Arda Kazancı explores Compose 1.13 graphics features, including mesh gradients, morphing shapes, progressive blur, and wide color gamut.
Santiago Mattiauda explains Android 17's per-app memory limits, how the system terminates overbudget apps, and how to detect them.
Place a sponsored post
We reach out to more than 80k Android developers around the world, every week, through our email newsletter and social media channels. Advertise your Android development related service or product!
Libraries & Code
A Claude Code and Gemini CLI skill that fills Google Play's Data safety form from your app's real code.
A Rust-based MCP server and CLI that lets AI agents like Claude Code control Android and iOS phones.
A Hilt extension that adds Perfetto tracing for Hilt creation and injection, plus coroutine helpers.
News
Google announces an open-source Sign in with Google plugin for Unity, compatible with Unity 6.5 and Credential Manager.
Videos & Podcasts
The Developers' Bakery hosts discuss whether Android developers still need Android Studio amid AI coding agents.
Philipp Lackner introduces his new beginner course on agentic development, with an early-bird launch deal.
Nav Singh shows how AppFunctions lets Android apps expose capabilities to AI agents.
Arnaud Giuliani explains how Koin moves to the Kotlin compiler for compile-time safety, a safer DSL, and DI migration.
Firebase's Rosário shows how Google AI Studio auto-wires Firebase AI Logic and App Check into Android apps.