Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links

Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS, Android, and the web. Now after 7 years, Google is shutting down this product. But why? I asked the Big Tech giant for details.

Recently, the Android team at SoundCloud took on a project to optimize the Android app for large screen devices. With the increasing use of devices like tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks, we decided to provide better support for them.

The Kotlin compiler is being rewritten for Kotlin 2.0. The new compiler implementation–codenamed K2–brings with it significant build speed improvements, compiling Kotlin code up to twice as fast as the original compiler.

Credential Manager is a new Jetpack library that allows app developers to simplify their users' authentication journey, while also increasing security with support of passkeys.

When you get used to refactoring with tests, one common pitfall people sometimes fall into is stopping writing tests and starting refactoring after they attain 100% code coverage.