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Mobile debugging: full context, no sampling

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.

One Kotlin codebase, five platforms, 60 fps: building a 3D game with KMP and CMP

The BoatBrawl team walks through frame pacing, audio, and rendering fixes for a KMP/CMP 3D game.

Improved runCatching

Marcin Moskała explains why stdlib's runCatching is flawed and proposes a safer runCatchingCancellable alternative.

On-Device AI Series (Part 6): Building An AI Agent

Oğuzhan Aslan builds an on-device Android AI agent with JIT tool discovery, a ReAct loop, and permission guardrails.

Designing Safer API Failover in an Android App

Erfan Moghaddam examines designing safer API failover between origins in Android using OkHttp interceptors.

Wrapping a Swift Package in a Gradle Module: How RevenueCat's KMP SDK Builds purchases-ios Without CocoaPods

Jaewoong Eum explains how RevenueCat's KMP SDK compiles its Swift package via Gradle, replacing CocoaPods entirely.

How I Built Free and Full Build Flavors for Android in My KMP Codebase

Avik Sharma Chowdhury shows how Android product flavors keep auth and payment code out of a KMP app's free build.

Build intelligent Android apps: In-app agentic workflows

Jolanda Verhoef walks through building a cloud-hosted multi-agent booking assistant using ADK, AG-UI, and A2UI.

Building On-Device AI Agents on Android with Google ADK — Part 5: Solving the "Frozen App" Problem

Pankaj Rai shows real-time SSE token streaming and a live Chain-of-Thought agent inspector built in Jetpack Compose.

Why has Shopify dropped React Native?

Gergely Orosz examines why Shopify ditched React Native for native apps, citing AI coding gains.

KMP's Role In Modern Native Mobile

Sam Hill argues KMP still beats AI-driven code porting by cutting verification and duplication costs long-term.

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Libraries & Code

Joyframe KMP

A Kotlin Multiplatform toolkit for 3D games, covering rendering, cameras, controllers, split screen and audio.

gander

A tiny, offline Android file viewer for PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photos, video, audio, and Markdown.

enriched-markdown

A multiplatform SDK that renders Markdown as native text and edits rich text with Markdown output, with Android Compose support.

Oh My Android

A macOS ADB GUI for the Android Emulator covering dark mode, RTL, TalkBack, network, GPS, plus an MCP server for AI agents.

Spock ADB

An Android Studio/IntelliJ plugin that brings ADB workflows — device control, logcat, UI inspection — into the IDE.

maven-mcp

An MCP server plugin that scans Gradle/Maven projects for outdated, vulnerable, or license-risky dependencies.

setup-kotlin-toolchain

A GitHub Action that sets up Kotlin Toolchain (formerly Amper) with cross-platform caching for toolchain, JDKs, and dependencies.

Android Window Insets & Safe Areas

A reference tool showing per-device safe-area, cutout, and system-bar inset measurements for real Android devices.

News

The State of Kotlin in 2026 Report

JetBrains publishes its State of Kotlin 2026 report, covering adoption trends, backend growth, and AI coding tool usage.

Compose HotSwan 2.2.0: Faster Saves and More of Your State Kept

Compose HotSwan 2.2.0 speeds up structural saves, preserves more rememberSaveable state, and fixes hot-reload crashes.

A More Reliable Compilation Scheme for Kotlin Multiplatform Modules

JetBrains introduces an experimental separate compilation scheme in Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1 for more predictable KMP builds.

The Companions to Come

JetBrains previews experimental companion blocks and extensions in Kotlin 2.5.0, a new alternative to companion objects.

How Instagram Direct engineers built AI-native UI architecture with Jetpack Compose

Google and Meta detail how Instagram Direct's Compose migration cut UI code 50% and AI agent token cost 33%.

Driving growth on Google Play: The next era of subscriptions

Google Play previews new subscription tools: multi-quantity seats, usage-based billing, mixed carts, bundling, and winback offers.

Device Streaming and Android skills - available in Android CLI

Google adds Android Device Streaming to Android CLI and expands its growing library of Android skills.

Videos & Podcasts

Shopify Quit React Native. Mobile Has Done This Before.

Ishan Khanna examines why Shopify rebuilt its Shop app in Swift and Kotlin after years on React Native.

Full Guide on Creating Reliable & Stable AI Agent Skills

Philipp Lackner walks through creating and testing reliable AI agent skills for coding workflows.

Pose Detection for Disc Golf Coaching app - On-device AI MediaPipe / Google AI Edge - Android

Dmitri Chernysh demonstrates on-device pose detection for a disc golf coaching app using Google AI Edge and MediaPipe.

No spoilers, Sherlock! Building a book Q&A using on-device AI

Firebase's Code, Commit, Deploy, Repeat builds a spoiler-safe, on-device AI Q&A assistant for books using Gemini.

#103 - Building developer conferences with Greg Fawson

The Developers' Bakery talks with droidcon Global CEO Greg Fawson about building developer conferences and next.app DevCon.

We will all be generalists.

Philipp Lackner discusses how AI is pushing developers toward broader, generalist skill sets and careers.

Android CLI and skills to improve your development

Android Developers demonstrates the new Android CLI and official skills that streamline agent-assisted development workflows.

How to create a Ribbon Modifier in Jetpack Compose

sinasamaki demonstrates building a ribbon effect around any composable using Canvas paths and gradients.

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