Android Weekly (Articles)

Is your mobile release tooling keeping up with AI?

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Your mobile release tooling is doing more work than it did a year ago. AI is driving up code volume, and the math on build vs. buy is shifting under it. Hear how engineers from Monzo, Spotify, Etsy, and Tuist are recalculating. May 28, 10am PT/1pm ET.

Voice AI on Android: Beyond Speech

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Akshay Nandwana explores building a full Voice AI pipeline on Android, covering streaming audio capture, endpointing, and state management.

Adaptable Apps on ChromeOS: A Post-Mortem

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Thomas Künneth documents a week-long investigation into suppressing ChromeOS resize warnings for Android apps on ARC.

MCP Server for accurate AI fixes for KMP

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ship accurate fixes, fast. Connect your AI coding assistant to your production app, right in your terminal. Tell it to pull live issues, compare performance across releases, or dig into crashes. Watch it work with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot & Android Studio MCP panel. Free to try.

KMP Splash: How I Stopped Opening Xcode for Splash Screens

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

KMP Bits walks through building a Gradle plugin that handles splash screen setup for both Android and iOS from a single Kotlin config block.

Leave Me Behind

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Adam McNeilly reflects on his Android career and why he's choosing human connection over AI-assisted development.

Déjà vu, Compose, and the Difference Between Performance Wins and Guardrails

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

James Cullimore explores using Déjà vu to add recomposition assertions to a real Compose app, uncovering a tooling bug along the way.

Google I/O 2026 for Android Developers

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Anand Gaur summarises every Google I/O 2026 announcement that matters to Android developers, from Android CLI to Compose-first tooling and Android 17.

Everything About Google I/O 2026 for Android Developers

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jaewoong Eum distills Google I/O 2026 into what changes daily Android work: Compose as the standard, Views in maintenance mode, Android CLI 1.0, and Play Billing 9.0.0 breaking changes.

Android Beyond the Phone: Lessons from Building for TV, Auto, and Wear

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Siarhei Krupenich explores how to adapt Android apps for TV, Auto, and Wear OS without falling into mobile-first assumptions.

Accelerate Android Room Queries with Database Indices

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Oğuzhan Aslan explains how Room database indices work under the hood and walks through single-column, composite, and unique index strategies.

Promies Code Distribution: A hassle-free way to manage app giveaways

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mike Yerou walks through Promies, a revamped promo code distribution system for Android app giveaways.

What's New in Android at Google I/O 2026

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Akshay Nandwana highlights the 17 biggest Android announcements from Google I/O 2026, from AI-native experiences to Android 17 and AppFunctions.

Is your mobile release tooling keeping up with AI?

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

How FotMob used cross-device discovery to score record Wear OS adoption

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Garan Jenkin walks through how FotMob used Wearable APIs to prompt phone users to install the Wear OS app, tripling daily installs.

The Road to Name-Based Destructuring

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

JetBrains explains the move to name-based destructuring in Kotlin, outlining new syntax, rationale, and migration path.

Drop the Clutch: Three Metro DI Patterns Every KMP Developer Should Know

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

KMP Bits explores three dependency injection patterns using Metro's compile-time-safe DI framework in Kotlin Multiplatform projects.

Compose Automotive Dashboard

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Daniele Bonaldo builds a morphing instrument dial in Compose Multiplatform, covering Canvas drawing, polar coordinates, and synchronized state transitions.

SQLCipher + Firebase in KMP: When SPM import Symbol Conflicts Break Your Encryption

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

FunkyMuse walks through diagnosing and fixing silent SQLCipher encryption failures in KMP caused by Firebase's transitive sqlite3 linker dependency on iOS.

Building Adaptive Layouts in Jetpack Compose

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Victor Brandalise walks through building an adaptive list-detail screen in Jetpack Compose using WindowSizeClass.

Incremental Maintenance

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ryan Harter recommends small, incremental refactoring steps to improve legacy Android codebases without big rewrites.

Building a custom launcher for ChromeOS

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Thomas Künneth walks through adapting an Android launcher app to run on ChromeOS, covering platform detection, split-screen quirks, and wallpaper handling.

From ViewModel to Pixels: Hot Reloading Compose Side Effects in One Loop

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jaewoong Eum demonstrates how Compose hot reload keeps side effects live-editable without restarting the app.

Effective Search in Room: FTS vs LIKE

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Valentine Rutto compares Room's FTS4 full-text search against LIKE queries for efficient offline search in large Android databases.

Hot Reloading AGSL Shaders Without a Rebuild: A Compose Walkthrough

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jaewoong Eum walks through live-tuning AGSL shaders in Compose using RuntimeShader and remember keying, with no process restart.

Bubble Up: Android 17's New Multitasking Feature Explained

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Thomas Künneth explains how Android 17's new Bubbles feature works and what developers need to do to support it.

Compose: A New Challenger

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Marcin Moskała explores how Compose Multiplatform is positioning itself as a serious competitor to React and other frontend frameworks.

Screenshot testing Compose previews in CI

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jaewoong Eum walks through capturing every Compose preview on a real device and publishing the results via GitHub Actions.

Scaling developer experience: How we improved Android Studio in a large monorepo

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Rifqi Fahmi and Arun Sampathkumar explain how Grab built a custom Focus plugin that cut Android Studio sync times from 35 minutes to under 2 minutes in a 2,000-module monorepo.

Bypassing User Isolation on Android with a Screen Reader

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Karol Wrótniak explains how a missing user check in Android's notification service let screen readers leak private notifications across user accounts.

Per-Item ViewModels in Compose

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Saurabh Arora shows how to scope ViewModels to individual list items in Compose using new Lifecycle 2.11 APIs.

Embracing Compose Snapshot State for UI Layer State Production

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

TJ Dahunsi argues why Compose snapshot State should replace StateFlow as the observable primitive in the Android UI layer.