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• Issue #723

  The Fourth Beta of Android 17

  Google releases Android 17 Beta 4, the last scheduled beta, marking a critical milestone for app compatibility and platform stability testing.
• Issue #720

  kstats

  A Kotlin Multiplatform statistics toolkit covering distributions, hypothesis testing, correlation, descriptive stats, and sampling.
• Issue #719

  Don't Learn Coroutine Testing with Turbine

  Tim Malseed argues for learning coroutine testing fundamentals before reaching for Turbine, to avoid flaky, over-specified tests.
• Issue #718

  Introducing Dejavu: Recomposition Testing for Jetpack Compose

  Matt McKenna introduces Dejavu, a test library that turns Jetpack Compose recomposition counts into assertable CI contracts without any production code changes.
• Issue #718

  Level Up: Test Sidekick and prepare for upcoming program milestones

  Google announces Play Games Sidekick testing, new Play Console updates, and 2026 Level Up program milestones for game developers.
• Issue #717

  Lint Playground

  A browser-based playground for writing, testing, and sharing custom Android Lint rules with live SARIF output.
• Issue #716

  Jetpack Compose and the Speed of Thinking

  Annyce Davis considers how Compose removes cognitive drag, speeding up debugging, previews, and testing.
• Issue #715

  Re: Dependency Injection vs. Service Locators

  Zac Sweers reframes the DI debate as compile-time graph construction versus runtime service lookup, arguing the real tradeoff is explicitness and build cost versus runtime risk, testing friction, and scaling pain.
• Issue #715

  Get Started with React Native for Vega

  React Native for Vega delivers native performance across Fire TV devices. Ship faster with hot reloading and built-in focus management. Access SDKs, testing tools, libraries and distribution resources to launch your app on Vega OS-powered devices. 
• Issue #709

  Setting up Kotest on KMP

  Alysson Cirilo shows how to set up Kotest with proper Gradle and source set configuration for Kotlin Multiplatform testing.
• Issue #709

  trailblaze

  Trailblaze is an AI-powered mobile testing framework that lets you author and execute tests using natural language.
• Issue #709

  Building animated custom Paywalls in Jetpack Compose

  Jaewoong Eum demonstrates crafting advanced animated custom paywalls in Jetpack Compose with RevenueCat integration and remote content testing.
• Issue #706

  Testing Jetpack Compose UI on the JVM: The Discovery That Changed My Workflow

  KMP Bits shows that Robolectric JVM Compose UI tests remove emulator overhead, making fast and reliable UI testing possible.
• Issue #704

  Kotest : Modern Testing in Kotlin: Test Styles, Mocking and Writing Tests

  Nimit Raja explains how Kotest plus MockK offers flexible test styles and readable Kotlin-first testing for Android projects.
• Issue #703

  Explore how to automate testing across alpha, beta, and RC tracks

  How do you automatically test alpha/beta/RC versions without losing your mind? Jake Wharton joins the Coding with the Italians team live.
• Issue #701

  Legacy Code: Evolving and testing what you thought was impossible

  Gabriel Brasileiro shows how to methodically bring testability and evolution to legacy Android code through characterization tests and incremental modularization.
• Issue #700 🎉

  Combot

  Combot is a Compose testing library designed to simplify testing and automation of UI components in Jetpack Compose. It allows developers to easily write tests for Compose components.
• Issue #699

  litmuskt

  Litmus testing tool for Kotlin/Native
• Issue #699

  A Novel Concurrency Testing Tool that Improved the Kotlin Compiler

  JetBrains introduces LitmusKt, a tool enhancing Kotlin compiler reliability through systematic concurrency testing.
• Issue #699

  Google Play Console: Streamlining workflows, from testing to growth

  Learn how a reimagined, goal-oriented Google Play dashboard puts actionable metrics front and center.
• Issue #698

  Kotlin JUnit: useful updates in JUnit 6 and late JUnit 5 for Kotlin Unit Testing

  Elena van Engelen - Maslova highlights JUnit 6’s stronger Kotlin support, especially around coroutines and nullability.
• Issue #692

  Mastering Google’s ML Kit for Barcode and Text Recognition

  Vamsi Vaddavalli shows how to use ML Kit with CameraX and Compose to implement barcode scanning and OCR with attention to performance, privacy, error cases, and testing.
• Issue #691

  Resizable Compose Preview, monthly releases and smarter AI

  Android Studio’s Narwhal 3 Feature Drop adds smarter Gemini support, dynamic Compose preview resizing, Play policy linting, and better app backup/restore testing.
• Issue #688

  Integration Testing: A Practical Guide with Hilt, Compose & Room

  Tobi Oyelekan demonstrates how to set up integration tests in Android using Hilt, Jetpack Compose, and Room, focusing on the DogBreed App. He emphasizes testing real user journeys by swapping real APIs with fake responses and using an in-memory Room database, ensuring that UI, ViewModels, and repositories interact correctly without mocking internal layers.
• Issue #687

  Integration Testing on Android: A Practical Guide with Hilt, Compose & Room

  Tobi Oyelekan demonstrates integration testing in Android using Hilt, fake services, in-memory Room, Compose, and the robot pattern for clear, end-to-end UI checks.