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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.

Pit Board Reading: Accessibility in Compose Multiplatform

KMP Bits explores making Compose Multiplatform UIs accessible to TalkBack and VoiceOver through semantics and labels.

How SmileID Scaled Identity Verification to 18,000+ Android Device Types with CameraX

Donovan McMurray explains how SmileID used CameraX to scale identity verification across 18,000+ Android device types.

Clear your Kotlin's code mutation report using Jev

Leonidas Partsas outlines using Jev to triage PIT mutation testing reports for Kotlin projects.

Migrating a Real Android App to Kotlin Multiplatform 3/4 — Sharing the UI without losing safety net

Daniel Voko explains sharing Compose UI across Kotlin Multiplatform while keeping Roborazzi screenshot tests working.

Building Reliable Text Editing in Compose: TextFieldState, TextFieldBuffer, and Compose 1.12 Styling

Arda Kazancı explains why Compose text fields are moving to TextFieldState and how to structure it.

Recalculated, not recomposed: what does one tap cost in a Compose paywall?

Jaewoong Eum examines why one tap in a Compose paywall costs hundreds of milliseconds.

How Morph Text dissolves one word into the next

Juan Silva explains how to port the Gooey text morphing effect to Compose using blur and threshold colour matrices.

Android UI thread vs. RenderThread: what actually happens when a frame is drawn

Ravi Rawal explains how the UI thread and RenderThread split frame work, and why jank can persist.

Type-Safe Deep Links in Jetpack Navigation 3: UriDeepLinkMatcher, DeepLinkSerializer, and Synthetic Back Stacks

Arda Kazancı explains type-safe deep links in Navigation 3 with matchers, custom serializers, and synthetic back stacks.

A Rough First Sketch of the Compose Runtime

Wolfram Rittmeyer outlines the high-level architecture of the Compose runtime, from composition and recomposition to the snapshot system.

stop filling the google play data safety form manually

Wajahat Karim explains how an open-source agent skill generates Google Play data safety CSVs automatically.

IntelliJ and Android Studio Are Dropping Swift. Where Do KMP Devs Write Their iOS Code Now?

Chetan Gupta examines where Kotlin Multiplatform developers write iOS code after IntelliJ drops Swift editing support.

Kotlin Data Class vs Class: equals, copy, componentN and Bytecode

Mayank Kumar explains how Kotlin data classes generate equals, copy, and componentN, and where they break.

Jetpack Compose 1.13 and Android Graphics: MeshGradientPainter, MorphPolygonShape, Progressive Blur, and RuntimeColorFilter

Arda Kazancı explores Compose 1.13 graphics features, including mesh gradients, morphing shapes, progressive blur, and wide color gamut.

The New Android 17 Standard: Why Memory Budgeting is no Longer Optional

Santiago Mattiauda explains Android 17's per-app memory limits, how the system terminates overbudget apps, and how to detect them.

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Libraries & Code

Play Data Safety

A Claude Code and Gemini CLI skill that fills Google Play's Data safety form from your app's real code.

phonedriver

A Rust-based MCP server and CLI that lets AI agents like Claude Code control Android and iOS phones.

android-hilt-extension

A Hilt extension that adds Perfetto tracing for Hilt creation and injection, plus coroutine helpers.

News

Powering Seamless Player Sign-In: Introducing the Open-Source Sign in with Google Plugin for Unity

Google announces an open-source Sign in with Google plugin for Unity, compatible with Unity 6.5 and Credential Manager.

Videos & Podcasts

#106 - Do we still need Android Studio?

The Developers' Bakery hosts discuss whether Android developers still need Android Studio amid AI coding agents.

Learn Agentic Development as a Beginner - NEW Course & Special Launch Deal

Philipp Lackner introduces his new beginner course on agentic development, with an early-bird launch deal.

Android AppFunctions: Exposing Your App to AI Agents

Nav Singh shows how AppFunctions lets Android apps expose capabilities to AI agents.

Koin & the Kotlin Compiler

Arnaud Giuliani explains how Koin moves to the Kotlin compiler for compile-time safety, a safer DSL, and DI migration.

Build secure AI Android apps in Google AI Studio with Firebase AI Logic & App Check

Firebase's Rosário shows how Google AI Studio auto-wires Firebase AI Logic and App Check into Android apps.

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