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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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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 08/12/2025

Something like this is just overhead because the original state is still used. val visible by remember { derivedStateOf { foo > 0 } } Text(foo, Modifier.graphicsLayer { alpha = if (visible) 1f else 0f } )

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 08/12/2025

A common small mistake I see is correctly using derivedStateOf but still referencing the same state you used in the derived state elsewhere in the recomposition scope.

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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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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 31/08/2025

Thanks for the comments! Glad you like it! @mlykotom.dev wrote this

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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

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 01/06/2025

We call them bin chickens 😂

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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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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 13/05/2025

But in general yes, it's a challenge for any xplat framework

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 13/05/2025

The superpower is, if your company is big enough your iOS Devs barely need to know. Analytics or whatever other framework team can package it up so it just looks like any other iOS framework and now they are shipping to multiple platforms with one team

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 26/04/2025

This was an amazing post. Thank you for taking the time to write it

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 14/04/2025

Very generic but leads from the front by example, doesn't just yell from the back. Tries to remove roadblocks before the team hits them rather than placing them in the path

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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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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 01/03/2025

Then the lazy list calls equals on the 3 visible items. If your list was stable, you'd call equals on each item and pay it for a couple of hundred times. Then the lazy list still calls equals again for the 3 visible items. Tldr, stable lists aren't always faster even if they avoid recomposition

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 01/03/2025

So the idea is with strong skipping, === is an extremely fast check. Imagine you have a lazy list and an array with a couple of hundred items, 3 on screen. Depending on the cost of equals, it's faster to let that higher level recomposition happen with ===.

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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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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 13/02/2025

Yeah that's fair, pure curiosity to see the effect

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Ben Trengrove @bentrengrove.dev · 13/02/2025

I'm curious how much the size of the list changes the comparison? Might be interesting to plot it and see if it crosses over

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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

Yeah I really like it as well! I should try tailwind, I've been using Pico.

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

That makes sense. I just kept seeing people say they barely write code anymore, just prompt, and I was like "wow! I have to try this out!"

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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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