Android Weekly (Articles)

Mobile debugging: full context, no sampling

Sun, 30 Aug 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.

Torque Spec: Shared Form State and Validation in KMP

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

KMP Bits builds Composure, a shared form-state library adding typed validation, touch/dirty tracking, and cross-field rules.

Compose & kotlinx.html

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jake Wharton uses Molecule to stream live HTML updates from Compose state over WebSockets with kotlinx.html.

How to build a KMP Library using Xcode Cloud

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Darryl Bayliss explains how to install a JDK via Homebrew so Xcode Cloud can build a KMP library's Gradle build.

Consuming SKIE Flows in SwiftUI

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gustavo Fão Valvassori shows how SKIE simplifies consuming Kotlin Flows inside SwiftUI views.

The Recompositions That Weren't There!

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Qamar A Safadi uses memory allocation data to uncover hidden Compose recompositions the Layout Inspector missed, then fixes them.

Turning the page: a real page-curl on iOS with Compose Multiplatform

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Zeyad Gasser forks Android's pagecurl library to bring a real page-curl animation to iOS with Compose Multiplatform.

Handling Asynchronous Images in Android Screenshot Tests

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Alex Zhukovich shows how to make screenshot tests deterministic using coil-test fake image loaders or Compose inspection mode.

Mastering Jetpack Compose's New SelectionState API

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Nav Singh explores Jetpack Compose's new SelectionState API for programmatic, hoisted text selection control.

Building an Android App by Hand, One Layer at a Time

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Rifqi M Fahmi rebuilds an Android app from a single .class file, adding javac, kotlinc, and Gradle layers by hand.

Mobile debugging: full context, no sampling

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Android observability with Hilt: Kotzilla SDK and MCP Server on Google's Now in Android app

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Miguel Valdes Faura walks through adding Kotzilla SDK observability to Google's Hilt-based Now in Android app

The Great Android Stack Reset: Mobile System Design History

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Rotem Meidan traces Android's repeated architecture resets, from Activity-era God Objects to today's declarative stack

Fun Animations with Mesh Gradients: Jetpack Compose 1.12

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Kevin Desai builds an animated water mesh gradient in Compose 1.12, optimizing the wave math for performance

Lights Out: Automatic Skeleton Loading in Compose Multiplatform

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

KMP Bits builds a Compose Multiplatform skeleton modifier with one shared shimmer clock instead of many

Signatures, be true: domain errors and functional handling in Kotlin

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Viliam Sedliak shows how sealed interfaces and Either model domain errors directly in Kotlin function signatures