Android Weekly (Articles)

Can your mobile release handle AI-generated code?

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

AI multiplied the amount of code your team writes. But the process that delivers it to users hasn’t changed: same release trains, same quality gates, same manual handoffs. Join a live panel w/ mobile engineering leaders on what that volume changes about the release process. Nov 12, 10am PT/1pm ET.

Pixelating Composables in Compose Multiplatform

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Joe Birch walks through building Pixelate, a Compose Multiplatform library that pixelates composables to mask premium content.

Moving from SKIE to Swift export in a Kotlin Multiplatform project

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

John O'Reilly walks through migrating the PeopleInSpace KMP sample from SKIE to Kotlin's new Swift export.

Is your mobile app under attack right now?

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover why real-time threat monitoring is crucial to your cybersecurity posture through a simulated attack demo. Join us on Oct 20th to uncover why threat monitoring is essential to the complete, end-to-end protection of your mobile app.

Publishing one Kotlin Multiplatform library to six places: Maven Central, SPM, pub.dev, npm, PyPI, and the web

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Shiva Thapa walks through publishing one Kotlin Multiplatform library across Maven Central, SPM, pub.dev, npm, PyPI, and the web.

Coroutines Need Your Cooperation

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ricardo Costeira explains cooperative coroutine cancellation and common mistakes that silently break it.

One Maestro flow in every language, on iOS and Android

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Manuel Lorenzo Parejo walks through running one Maestro flow across languages on iOS and Android, including common traps.

Profiling a Compose Multiplatform app in the browser

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Konstantin Tskhovrebov shows how to profile Compose Multiplatform apps on Wasm, recovering stripped function names for deeper traces.

Telemetry: Shared Analytics and Crash Reporting in Kotlin Multiplatform

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

KMP Bits outlines a shared Analytics/CrashReporter contract in commonMain to stop Android and iOS telemetry events from drifting apart.

The Pulse: Firebase's global outage & poor response

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gergely Orosz examines Firebase's global outage, Google's poor incident response, and why Android's SDK survived.

Fine-Tuning Small Models for On-Device Agents: Train, Convert, and Measure What Changed

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Sasha Denisov builds litetune to verify fine-tuned on-device models after conversion and quantization.

Harness Engineering: What I Learned From 24,000 Prompts Building Production Apps

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Adit Lal shares hard-won lessons on hooks, AI code review, and token costs from running Claude Code on a real Android app.

Mobile debugging: full context, no sampling

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Improved runCatching

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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?

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

KMP's Role In Modern Native Mobile

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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