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Shared Internals: Kotlin's New Proposal for Cross-Module Visibility

Jaewoong Eum discusses shared internal as a transitive, opt-in cross-module visibility level that replaces friend modules without widening your public API.

Kotlin Annotation Targets Are Changing and KT-73255

Burak Karaduman advises using explicit @field or @param targets to avoid Kotlin 2.2 KT-73255 surprises for constructor property annotations.

Building AI Agents in Kotlin – Part 5: Teaching Agents to Forget

JetBrains teaches adding threshold-based history compression to Koog strategies so coding agents keep essential decisions without exceeding context limits.

Master Compose Shared Element Transitions: A Smooth UI Journey

KMP Bits explains Compose Navigation shared element transitions using a SharedTransitionScope and stable keys to avoid flaky recomposition bugs.

Qodana for Android

JetBrains frames Qodana as CI-first Kotlin inspection enforcement for Android teams that scales code quality without replacing Android Lint.

The Embedded Photo Picker

Google’s embedded photo picker lets apps offer in-place, cloud-aware media selection with scoped URI grants, eliminating photo permissions for Android 14+ devices.

Architectural Evolution of the LiteRT CompiledModel API

Kartikey Rawat outlines LiteRT CompiledModel as a compile-and-cache runtime that auto-targets CPU, GPU, or NPU with zero-copy I/O for lower-latency on-device inference.

How to create Dials in Jetpack Compose

sinasamaki demonstrates configuring ChromaDial with degree-based state, custom ranges, multi-turn visuals, and snapping, plus a finish callback for costly side effects.

How to migrate to AGP 9.0 in Android and Kotlin Multiplatform projects

Santiago Mattiauda outlines AGP 9.0 upgrade essentials: built-in Kotlin, androidComponents, and KMP module separation via multi-platform library.

Part3: Stop Treating Dependency Injection as an Android Detail

Ahmed Nassar presents Koin-first DI as a KMP architectural contract that keeps the dependency graph in shared code and reduces platforms to simply starting it.

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Explicit Backing Fields in Kotlin 2.3 - What You Need to Know

Dave Leeds shows you what Explicit Backing Fields are, when you'll want to use them, and what to look out for.

Why you should delete your base classes on Android

Philipp Lackner explains why the base class pattern is an anti-pattern on Android and KMP.

How I Create App Store Screenshots 10x Faster

Daniel Atitienei demonstrates AppScreens, which helps generate App Store screenshots more easily than opening up Figma or Photoshop.

Making Apps Accessible with Kotlin and Compose

Vanessa Johnson discusses why implementing accessibility is easier than people think, especially with modern tools like the Kotlin semantics modifier in Jetpack Compose.

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