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Read how Squarespace’s Unfold team made their mobile release process boring: learn what these non-eventful releases are like and how they came about, dig into how eventful they used to be, and hear why having uneventful releases is a superpower.
Ranjeet shares a store from the maddening world of automated app reviews
Pamela Hill takes you through what to do to add static and animated splash screens to Android and iOS applications.
Kashif Mehmood shows how creating a custom design system in Jetpack Compose can be as simple or as complex as you need.
Paul Lammertsma shares the steps needed to move to the stable release of Jetpack Compose for TV.
Learn how to optimize your apps for desktop windowing and deliver the optimal experience to users.
Amit Shekhar teaches about the CoroutineContext in Kotlin by going through the source code. We will also cover how to customize it.
Thomas Künneth refines the user experience of the sample app: the user will be able to highlight an area of the image. If they do so, the app will ask Gemini to focus on the selection.
FunkyMuse shows how AndroidX Room can be integrated into a KMP project to handle local databases, providing a unified approach to data management.
Yves Kalume shares insights and practical strategies for managing state in your Android apps, from handling configuration changes to preparing for process death.
Adam Bennett examines GraphQL Directives, which is a way of optionally including fields. But why is this useful?
Mark Murphy describes a surprise in Compose when alternating between light and dark modes.
Jaewoong Eum explores the intriguing question of whether a property defined with the val keyword in Kotlin is truly immutable or simply read-only.
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Libraries & Code
Measure is an open source tool to monitor mobile apps.
The newly rewritten Bitwarden mobile app for Android.
News
The 1.0 stable version of the Compose adaptive APIs with Material guidance is out, ready to be used in production. The library helps you build adaptive layouts that provide an optimized user experience on any window size.
Developers with apps that still use legacy APIs should migrate to Credential Manager as soon as possible.
Videos & Podcasts
Sebastian Sellmair rants about ViewModels and explains why he does not like them!
Sarp Remzi Aksu delves into the principles of reactive programming and demonstrates how RxKotlin can be leveraged to manage asynchronous operations, handle data streams, and implement reactive architectures.
Charfaoui Younes examines why we need to set up some keys when working with Lazy List in Compose.
Clara Fok talks about the new Type Safety feature for Navigation Compose and the new type-safe APIs.
Rebecca Franks shows Flow layouts along with how to use them and tricks for using them to work on different sized devices. Making your experience delightful for all device sizes too!
Philipp Lackner shows how you can implement deep linking with the new type-safe Compose navigation.
Chet, Romain, and Tor chat with Doris Liu from the Compose team about animations in Compose -- covering everything from the basic primitives up to the recently added Shared Element Transitions.
Daniel Atitienei teaches how to create your first composable, create a simple app using the state and the most used composables.
This is how the story of Kotlin began. What led to the success of Kotlin, and what were the costs to earn its spot in the industry? In this documentary, you will hear the story from the source.

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