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Nick Butcher @nickbutcher.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Android is now Compose First, we recommend you build all Android UI with Compose and `android.widget` is now in maintenance mode. #GoogleIO #AndroidDev android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/andr...

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Android UI Development is Compose First

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 16/04/2026

Android CLI is out! 🎉 Easy access to Android documentation and skills, in whatever agent you use. Plus we've made the initial environment set-up and project creation much more token efficient. What features would you like to see next? android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/buil...

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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster

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Chris Horner @chris-horner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Starting to look around for what's next. A bit of info on me and what I'm looking for chrishorner.codes/hire/

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Hire Me

About me and what I’m looking for.

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 13/03/2026

Unexpected benefit of vibe coding I've never been able to listen to music while coding, but now I can, because all I do is click allow over and over again

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Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Here's the new page about the new stack traces in Compose, in case you were wondering how it all is supposed to work: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...

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Stack traces in Compose | Jetpack Compose | Android Developers

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Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This release also adds support for Compose stack traces that work with minified apps! (requires R8 and Kotlin 2.3.0+)

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Ian Lake @ianlake.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉 Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...

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Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Ben Weiss @keyboardsurfer.dev · 18/11/2025

So you enabled R8. Now is a good time to catch up on Keep Rules. @ajeshr.bsky.social talks you through configuration and troubleshooting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0I6...

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How to debug and troubleshoot R8 optimizer | Spotlight Week

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Don Turner @donaldturner.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My talk on Navigation 3 from #dcldn25 is live (very impressive publishing from the droidcon team!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Oi...

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Navigating the future with Jetpack Navigation 3 - Don Turner | droidcon London 2025

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Tomáš Mlynarič @mlykotom.dev · 31/10/2025

🆕Yesterday we published updates on #KMP on d.android.com/kmp! We finally have the Jetpack libraries that are compatible with KMP .. and CMP! Want to get into KMP? We have a course goo.gle/kmp-course. Pros can check their skills in the quiz at the end 😁.

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Chris Sinco @csinco.com · 30/10/2025

If using Gemini in Android Studio is not your cup of tea, you can now use whatever model you want via API key! Now available in latest canaries developer.android.com/studio/gemin...

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 10/10/2025

Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)? Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...

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Senior Software Engineer, Jetpack Compose — Google Careers

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 03/09/2025

We launched the Androidify app on Google Play! Download it now, and create your very own custom Android bot ❤️ I've had loads of fun creating and testing the app - now you can too! play.google.com/store/apps/d... #Androidify

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Tomáš Mlynarič @mlykotom.dev · 08/08/2025

Documentation 📃 for Room KMP just got upgraded. It finally contains all the information on how to set it up, how to migrate from Android-only and even what features are (unfortunately) not available in KMP. Give it a go! 🟢 d.android.com/kotlin/multi...

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Room (Kotlin Multiplatform) | Android Developers

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Chuck Jazdzewski @chuckjaz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Shreyas Patil wrote a nice article about Pausable Composition! We have been working on designs for this feature for quite a while until Leland asked "Why don't we just skip?". Ben Tengrove did a prototype to prove it would work and voila a feature is born. blog.shreyaspatil.dev/exploring-pa...

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Exploring PausableComposition internals in Jetpack Compose

Explore the internals of the `PausableComposition` API in Jetpack Compose to improve UI performance by pre-composing elements during idle time in Android

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seb @sebastiano.dev · 16/07/2025

If you do, I would recommend using your own Gemini key to get a larger context (1m tokens) developer.android.com/studio/previ... And yes, there is a rather generous free tier for the Gemini APIs, too ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

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Agent mode | Android Studio | Android Developers

Learn about AI-assisted coding features powered by Gemini.

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 28/05/2025

I was barely online during KotlinConf 2025, so here's my follow-up now. Thank you so much everyone who joined us, in person or online. It was an incredible experience connecting with the community! ❤️ Here are some highlights of news below, as you've probably missed some! 🧵

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Tomáš Mlynarič @mlykotom.dev · 23/05/2025

If you're new to #KMP we have 2 new codelabs: 1️⃣ Get started - goo.gle/kmp-get-started-codelab 2️⃣ Migrate Room - goo.gle/kmp-migrate-room-codelab Try it out, let us know what you miss! 🤖🍏 Thanks to everyone that attended the code-along at #KotlinConf 😊

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Get Started With Kotlin Multiplatform | Android Developers

Learn how to get started with Kotlin Multiplatform from two separate Android and iOS projects. In this codelab you will learn how to add a Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) module to share code between Andro...

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 23/05/2025

There are a lot of amazing KMP talks coming out right now but here is our talk from I/O! Dustin and I give an update on our latest KMP releases and then explain the build setup for an Android KMP app. youtu.be/gP5Y-ct6QXI?...

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Demystify KMP builds and structure

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Ben Weiss @keyboardsurfer.dev · 21/05/2025

Tomorrow we will show how to measure and improve app performance at #GoogleIO. Make sure to join in.

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Ian Lake @ianlake.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Today, we've released a brand new Jetpack library - Navigation3! A pure Compose, state based navigation library: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...

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Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3

Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers to build robust experiences.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 20/05/2025

#io25 is a go! Excited to be here for the first time as a Googler! Find me at the Androidify booth for most of today 👀

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 18/05/2025

I am looking forward to KotlinConf 2025. I hope to see you there. Do drop by for the talk by @alanv and I on "APIs: How Hard Can They Be?" #kotlinconf

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Ben Weiss @keyboardsurfer.dev · 15/05/2025

Don't use Gson on Android. Use Kotlin Serialization instead. It relies on code generation instead of reflection. This helps avoid optimization related crashes and faster app performance. github.com/google/gson?... github.com/Kotlin/kotli...

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Jolanda Verhoef @lojanda.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🚀 Big news for Android devs using Jetpack Compose! Media3 just dropped version 1.6.0, and it includes a brand new artifact: media3-ui-compose! Finally, seamless and customizable video playback directly in your Compose apps. 🎬 #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #Media3

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P-Y @p-y.wtf · 25/02/2025

If you're running Macrobenchmark tests to compute interaction latencies, you should check whether the distribution of results is a normal distribution. If it's not normal, compare outlier traces with traces that are close to the median and you will find systemic perf issues! Thread 🧵 #AndroidDev

latency data in red, normal distribution from its parameters in green. A red arrow points to an outlier

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Jorge Castillo @jorgecastillo.dev · 22/02/2025

LocalActivity CompositionLocal made the cut in androidx.activity👏👏 developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

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Rahul Ravikumar @rahulrav.com · 04/02/2025

Been working on a new experimental Kotlin Multiplatform Tracing library capable of emitting Perfetto compatible traces. Currently supporting Android and JVM with the goal of eventually supporting other platforms. Here is the README if you want to try it out. github.com/androidx/and...

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 01/02/2025

I keep seeing people talking about Cursor and how amazing it is. I tried it out on a SvelteKit app and most of the code it generates is completely wrong and not helpful. Is this a free trial issue and paid models are better? Any suggestions? It is using claude3.5-sonnet

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A 🧵 announcement: With the Jetpack Compose 1.8. beta01 release, you may notice that a significant number of APIs that were previously experimental, have been graduated to stable.

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Clara Bayarri @clarabayarri.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The Android UI & Jetpack Compose team is building a new team in Bengaluru! Join us in building exciting new APIs for Jetpack Compose as well as the other UI libraries and help us expand to Bengaluru. EM: goo.gle/4gt9dMl SWE: goo.gle/4dQb9w7 PM: goo.gle/compose-pm-in DevRel: goo.gle/3DE8B7T

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Engineering Manager, Android Toolkit — Google Careers

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Alex Vanyo @vanyo.dev · 23/01/2025

Android 16 will have some big changes around restricting orientation and aspect ratio by respecting the user's preferred orientation in more cases. Apps can no longer rely on assuming they have a specific aspect ratio to render in. For more details: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/orie...

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Elyes Mansour @elyesm.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Nice new addition in AndroidX Activity 1.10.0 🥳 developer.android.com/jetpack/andr... #AndroidDev

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 24/12/2024

New year, new job, new you? My team is hiring in Bangalore! We help Android developers move faster using Jetpack libraries including Compose. Feel free to reach out with any questions. goo.gle/3DE8B7T

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Developer Relations Engineer, Android — Google Careers

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 28/12/2024

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description

Icebergs with a Zodiac in the foreground

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 28/12/2024

I've reached 1200 on chess.com for the first time! Lucky streak or have I finally broken through my plateau? Only time will tell. ♟️📈

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Developer Relations Engineer, Android — Google Careers

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 13/12/2024

Benchmarking can be tricky! In this blog post, I show an example of how easy it is to get the wrong results and how to fix it: www.romainguy.dev/posts/2024/y...

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You Are Going to Need It

Optimizing code can be a difficult task because there are so many traps you need to avoid at every step of the way. Today I want to focus on one of the (numerous) benchmarking traps, which you may hav...

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 08/12/2024

I wrote all these fancy interpolation, gradient and distance functions for Pair<Int, Int> and then realised they were not needed. Maybe they will come in handy another day! #adventofcode

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Rivu Chakraborty @rivuchakraborty.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I am looking for opportunities in Europe. If you're hiring for senior Android/KMP roles, let's get in touch. In industry for 13+ years (mostly in Android), working with KMP for ~6 years, led KMP in my current org with 200+ m users. Will need Visa and relocation support.

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 02/12/2024

I've completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode Pretty easy to brute force out, but I feel like there is probably a more optimal way to do part 2 github.com/bentrengrove... adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

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