Android Weekly (Articles)

Mobile observability shouldn't suck

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Mobile reflects reality, and it’s messy: Intermittent connections, mid-onboarding drop-offs, force quits, and more. bitdrift captures 100% of real-time data, unsampled across 1B+ installs, so you and your agents can query reality. Try bitdrift: mobile observability for the real world.

How we rewrote Reddit's video player on Android

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Alexey Bykov explains how Reddit rebuilt its ExoPlayer abstraction for a simpler API and better playback performance.

DrawBox Goes Multiplatform

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Akshay Sharma walks through porting the DrawBox drawing library from Android-only to Compose Multiplatform, including a full MVI rewrite.

What’s your mobile release maturity score?

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Body: 42% of mobile releases slip off their planned timeline, and no EM can tell if that puts them ahead of the curve or behind it. The 2026 Decision Guide scores your team across 5 decisions, then names your single next move on the maturity curve. Built on data from 300 mobile EMs. Find your score, free.

The Same System: Advanced expect/actual in KMP

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

KMP Bits explores advanced expect/actual usage in KMP, covering classes, constructors, typealiases, and compiler rules.

Navigation 3 in Jetpack Compose: The Back Stack Is Just State

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Victor Brandalise explores Navigation 3's Compose-first model, where the back stack becomes plain app state you own.

Beyond Crash-Free App: The Senior Engineer's Guide to Memory Health

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Vikas Soni argues crash-free rates hide memory leaks and introduces LeakLens, an IDE plugin for proactive detection.

Inside Compose Side Effects: RememberObserver and the Composition Lifecycle

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jaewoong Eum explores how Compose effect handlers work internally through remember and the RememberObserver lifecycle.

Smaller, Slower, Wrong: What Aggressive Quantization Costs On-Device Inference

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Chris Merrick benchmarks quantized models on a Pixel, showing why the smallest INT4 model ran slower and misclassified images.

How an AI Agent Builds Android UI It Has Never Seen: A First Look at a2ui

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jaewoong Eum explores a2ui, an in-progress AndroidX module letting server-side agents build native Android UI.

Another Way to KMP: Shared Renderers

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gabor Berenyi shows how a custom 3D renderer can live in shared Kotlin behind a thin graphics façade.

Choose the Right AI Coding Assistant for Android Development

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Akshay Nandwana breaks down Google's Android Bench leaderboard and how to use it when picking an AI coding assistant.

Antigravity TagSpotter - Share data with Firebase

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Maia Grotepass walks through adding Firebase auth and cloud sync to her Kotlin Multiplatform app with Antigravity.

Mirage: Cloudy Grows from a Blur Library into a Graphics Effect Library

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

HyunWoo Lee explores Mirage, which grows the Cloudy blur library into a cross-platform shader effect toolkit for Compose.

Inside SubcomposeLayout: Jetpack Compose's Most Misunderstood API

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Shreyas Patil digs into how SubcomposeLayout works under the hood, why it's expensive, and when to reach for it.

Practical Kotlin Multiplatform: Setting up the Kotlin Multiplatform Networking Module with Ktor

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Joe Birch walks through setting up a shared Kotlin Multiplatform networking module with Ktor.

Publish agent artifacts behind company login

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Your coding agents produce HTML and Markdown. Display.dev gives each a permanent URL behind company auth – Google/Microsoft SSO or OTP. Teammates collaborate with inline comments, which agents read and republish. Version history and audit logs included. Any agent, no lock-in, no per-seat license.

How to use Koin Compiler in a Multimodule Project?

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Gabriel Bronzatti Moro walks through adopting the Koin Compiler in a multimodule Compose Multiplatform project.

Safety Car — Coroutine Exception Handling in KMP

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

KMP Bits explains how to contain coroutine failures using SupervisorJob, supervisorScope, and CoroutineExceptionHandler.

Rethinking the Data Layer: Advanced Android Repositories You Aren't Using

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Siarhei Krupenich explores advanced Android repository patterns for orchestrating multi-source concurrent data with priority-aware conflict resolution.

Going Beyond Firebase: Performance Monitoring for Android and Kotlin Multiplatform with Kotzilla

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Miguel Valdes Faura tests Firebase Performance Monitoring against the Kotzilla Platform on NowInAndroid, revealing where each tool falls short.

Switching a Million Lines of Code from Java Threads to Kotlin Coroutines by Rewriting Three Files

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Adrian Blanco explains how rewriting three core files migrated a million-line Android codebase from Java threads to coroutines overnight.

Understand Compose in 3 minutes

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Marcin Moskała explains how Jetpack Compose renders UI under the hood, tracing everything through modifier nodes, layout phases, and recomposition.

How Screenshot Detection Works on Android

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Edward Harker explains how Android screenshot detection works, comparing the Android 14 callback API with the legacy MediaStore approach.