Who ships the release if your lead quits?

Only 7% of mobile EMs are confident anyone on their team could run a release end to end. The rest are one resignation away from a stall. Our 2026 Decision Guide shows where release knowledge actually sits and how the fastest teams move it out of a few people's heads. Free read.

RSS-Parser: Ten Years

Marco Gomiero reflects on ten years of his RSS-Parser library, tracing its evolution from Java to Kotlin Multiplatform.

Antigravity TagSpotter - KotlinMultiPlatform evolve

Maia walks through migrating her Android TagSpotter app to KMP across iOS, Desktop, and Android in a weekend using Antigravity and parallel subagents.

Mobile observability shouldn't suck

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.

I Was Tired of Testing AGSL Shaders Through a Sample App, So I Built an Android Studio Plugin

Ivan Mikhailuts explains how he built an Android Studio plugin offering live AGSL shader preview, uniform controls, and full editor support.

Preview-Driven Screenshot Testing for Locales, Keys, and Font Scale

James Cullimore shows how to use Compose Previews as the source of truth for screenshot testing across locales, font scales, and string-key display mode.

How Compose Works

Jaewoong Eum explains Jetpack Compose internals — compiler transformations, the SlotTable, snapshot state, and the single-pass layout pipeline — traced through AOSP source.

Android Journey Tests with Gemini: CI Setup & 11-Week Review

Swapnil Gupta shares an honest 11-week review of Android Journeys powered by Gemini, covering CI setup challenges, test writing lessons, and production results.

Why phenix is the logo of kt.academy?

Marcin Moskała explains why truly learning Kotlin requires letting go of Java preconceptions rather than treating it as syntactic sugar.

Warm Tyres: Image Loading and Caching in Compose Multiplatform with Coil 3

KMP Bits shows how Coil 3 simplifies cross-platform image loading and caching in Compose Multiplatform for Android and iOS.

Compose HotSwan v2 Beta

Jaewoong Eum introduces Compose HotSwan v2, which enables full-screen structural hot reloads in native Jetpack Compose without app restarts.

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We reach out to more than 80k Android developers around the world, every week, through our email newsletter and social media channels. Advertise your Android development related service or product!

Android Developer (Monetization) - Utrecht / Groningen

Join Chordify as an Android Developer in our Monetization team and build Premium, payment, subscription, and conversion features for musicians worldwide. Work with Kotlin, data, A/B tests, and product impact while improving our Android app.

kVinInfo

A Kotlin Multiplatform library for VIN decoding, validation, and NHTSA API integration, targeting Android, iOS, and JVM.

hydra

A Gradle plugin that bakes runtime self-protection into your APK, detecting root, hooks, clones, and tampering entirely on-device.

What's new in Android XR

Google announces Android XR Developer Preview 4 with new tooling, Unreal Engine and Godot support, and glasses-focused APIs.

Android 17

Google releases Android 17, introducing adaptive-first large-screen requirements, on-device AI via AppFunctions, and next-generation privacy and performance.

Android Developer Verification

Google announces Android developer verification launches September 2026 in four countries, with new bulk-registration APIs and a 2027 global rollout.

Android XR Geospatial API and Gemini Tour Guide Demo

Google previews the Geospatial API in ARCore for Jetpack XR, demonstrating a Gemini-powered immersive walking tour app.

Is Maven Central Too Central?

Mark Murphy considers whether Maven Central's dominance over artifact distribution creates unhealthy ecosystem centralization.

The Lysine Contingency

Jake Wharton announces Retrofit, OkHttp, Okio, and SQLDelight are moving to the Commonhaus Foundation under the new lysine.dev organisation.

We've Been Looking Forward to This One...

Dave Leeds covers Kotlin 2.4's new Collection Literals, letting you declare collections with bracket syntax.

The latest in Android XR

Android Developers rounds up the latest Android XR development updates, tools, and resources for building immersive apps.

How to build apps for Android XR without hardware

Android Developers shows how to build and test Android XR apps without any physical hardware.

The Kotlin Effect in Real Life

Kotlin by JetBrains marks 15 years of Kotlin by showing how its principles of conciseness and efficiency play out in everyday situations.

Build for Android XR with your preferred 3D engine

Android Developers covers building Android XR apps with Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot using the new XR Engine Hub and Interaction Framework.

Why AI Will Likely Make Your Codebase BETTER

Philipp Lackner discusses why AI tooling is likely to improve rather than degrade overall codebase quality.

How to Fix ANRs and Slow Screens in Android. Live with the Kotzilla MCP Server.

Kotzilla demonstrates diagnosing and fixing Android ANRs and slow screens using their MCP server with session data.

What's new in Android XR development

Android Developers summarizes the latest updates and tools for building Android XR apps in 2026.

Building androidskills.dev - Episode 2

Code with the Italians live-streams building an Android app and learning Jetpack Compose from scratch.

Android 17 AOSP is here

Android Developers covers the five key AOSP updates landing with Android 17, from adaptive layouts to granular privacy pickers.