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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · 19/09/2026

TIL you can get IntelliJ to sync project with later AGP version than it officially supports (e.g. one that Android Studio supports and is sometimes required for latest Compose etc) by setting following in idea.properties gradle.ide.support.future.agp.versions=true

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Huyen Tue Dao @queencodemonkey.dev · 16/09/2026

For the non-Android folks, Jake is easily the most respected engineer in our community. He's contributed/maintained open source software for years now. Incredibly knowledgeable and experienced. But even moreso I respect him for using his platform with calm, earnest candor and speaking his truth.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 14/09/2026

Have you (like me 🫣) misunderstood the concept of a backwards-write in Compose? Well we have some new content on this topic! What is a backwards write? Its when state is modified in a later phase or downstream scope than where it was originally read from.

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Jaewoong Eum (skydoves) @skydoves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Excited to announce Compose HotSwan 2.0.0! 🚀 The future of Compose Hot Reload for Android, iOS, and Desktop. v2 introduces an interpreter engine, allows you to update entire screens in a blink real time, and drives a much faster AI agent feedback loop. hotswan.dev/blog/compose...

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 26/08/2026

Compose Multiplatform 1.12 is out! kotlinlang.org/docs/... * Improved performance on iOS * Automatic font fallback on the web (e.g. for emojis!) * MCP server for Compose Hot Reload * General goodies from Jetpack Compose 1.12, like new Grid or gradient APIs * ... and more!

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 24/08/2026

👀 Compose 1.13.0-alpha01 introduces a new CapturedAnimatedVisibility composable: It instantly disposes child content on exit, animating a static GraphicsLayer snapshot instead of keeping UI nodes alive. Our testing has shown: ⚡ ~8% faster exits 📉 ~7% fewer recompositions

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Jaewoong Eum (skydoves) @skydoves.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Compose HotSwan is evolving with Kotlin Multiplatform! 🚀 Have you ever seen Compose hot reload this fast across Android, iOS, and Desktop in real time? The next step is to sit back and watch your AI agent code live on your devices. hotswan.dev

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 13/08/2026

Jetpack Compose 1.12 has been released! So many new goodies to look at: 🌅 Mesh Gradient support - along with support inside Android Studio for editing ✌🏻 Interactive Two-Stage Transitions 💬 Many text features such as editable text formatting android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/jetp...

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What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release

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

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Chris Banes @chrisbanes.me · 12/08/2026

🚀 Haze 2.0.0-alpha05 has been released! 🔎 Glass visual effect (finally) ⚙️ New Style-like API structure 💨 HazePerformanceMode toggle This should hopefully be the last alpha release chrisbanes.github.io/haze/

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Chris Banes @chrisbanes.me · 03/08/2026

Here's a little preview of the new glass effect coming to Haze 2.0 Should be in the next alpha release

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 21/07/2026

I published vibrance-0.1.0 on Maven, now with support for Compose for Desktop (JVM). The APIs let you mix colors yourself, or draw gradients as modifiers or Compose brushes. Next steps: refine the model training to improve some color transitions, better alpha support. github.com/romainguy/vi...

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Sebastian Sellmair @sellmair.dev · 17/07/2026

Let me share the '.kar' (Kotlin Archive) file format 🙇‍♂️! A single binary you can publish, which shall carry everything necessary to build your project! While this is a prototype, I really would like to share some of our early measurements! 🥳

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 06/07/2026

Contributed R8 support to shadow, main benefit is you could produce pretty optimized uber jars now (on top of just tree-shaking). Should be pretty handy for CLIs. github.com/GradleUp/shadow/re...

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Release 9.5.0 · GradleUp/shadow

Added Check DuplicatesStrategy for merging transformers. (#2026) This will log warnings when an incompatible DuplicatesStrategy (e.g., EXCLUDE) is applied in Gradle configuration for built-in Reso...

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Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · 24/06/2026

Need a license information screen for your Kotlin Multiplatform app? AboutLibraries collects dependency and license information at compile time, then provides simple APIs and Compose components to display it – with no runtime overhead. Explore it on Klibs.io 👇 kotl.in/bhj2xq

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Anton Malinski @malinskiy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

One of the usual problems when dealing with bugs is not recording screen at the right moment. Emu records everything you do including semantically, so capturing bugs is just one button away. Examine screen or actions later, send it to colleagues. And LLM can capture these too. And reproduce issues

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 18/06/2026

I'm honestly shocked they took on this burden for so long. What I'd like to see is companies that rely on Maven and OSS projects to pay for this kind of infrastructure. It would make more sense than taking a cut from GitHub sponsors.

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 16/06/2026

Super sympathetic to Sonatype's situation, hosting isn't free. But announcing this with paltry limits and no public pricing options (a sales contact ain't it) is bad for everyone and going to be a major disruption to the JVM and Kotlin ecosystems. central.sonatype.org/publish/mave...

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Maven Central Publishing Limits

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 15/06/2026

I've been working on a Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform to interpolate sRGB colors as mixtures of paints/pigments. It can produce results that are more appealing than the traditional sRGB interpolation that Composes uses (see screenshot). Not quite ready for release yet. github.com/romainguy/vi...

A screenshot of an Android application comparing gradients rendered with paint mixtures vs traditional sRGB gradients. There are four rows: the first row shows an orange to red vertical gradient, with the paint mixture version on the left, sRGB on the right. The second and third rows show a horizontal yellow to blue gradient: the top one is a paint mixture, the bottom one is traditional sRGB. The paint mixture version shows that the gradient becomes green in the middle. The last row compares a white to blue vertical gradient, with a paint mixture on left, and tradition sRGB on the right. The paint mixture version show a blue becoming brighter/lighter, whereas the traditional version becomes purple.

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Jaewoong Eum (skydoves) @skydoves.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I just published a new open-source project, Compose Navigation Graph! ⛵️ Compose Navigation Graph plugin for Android Studio that visualizes your entire app flow as an interactive map of rendered previews, typed arguments, and transitions. github.com/skydoves/com...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 29/05/2026

Official mesh gradient support #JetpackCompose is coming soon👀 available in Compose 1.12 alphas at the moment! what other graphical effects do you want?

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Mike Penz @mikepenz.dev · 29/05/2026

Tested it, works great! Amazing addition! A `resize_window` tool would be a great addition 🙏

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 29/05/2026

"The desktop app is running with Hot Reload. Navigate to the Speakers screen, filter for JetBrains speakers, and check if any of their names is too long to fit on a single line. If yes, make the columns larger until they all fit." Video at 3x speed.

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Saket Narayan @saket.me · 25/05/2026

Introducing Touch Robot, something that has materially changed how I write screenshot tests. We've been using it at Block for ~2 years to catch animation and gesture bugs that static screenshots miss. saket.me/touch-robot/

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Introducing Touch Robot, for writing interactive screenshot tests in Compose UI

The best parts of a UI are usually in motion. The bugs are too.

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Mike Penz @mikepenz.dev · 24/05/2026

Congratulations! Well deserved ✨

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Mike Penz @mikepenz.dev · 04/05/2026

github.com/yschimke/com... Awesome work @schimke.ee . Started a similar project, but will probably archive it in favor of yours. Do you plan to export semantic information as json, so the content can be analyzed via tools without the visual image? (also that information could be used to visualize)

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Ralf @ralf-wondratschek.com · 05/02/2026

One underrated improvement Metro brings is its easy setup. No more configuring KAPT, runtime modules, keeping versions in sync, etc. You apply the Gradle plugin, setup a tiny graph and the rest is driven through constructor injection, @ContributesBinding and its other features. This was all I needed

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Jaewoong Eum (skydoves) @skydoves.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Tuning a Compose wave animation on a real Android device. Change a color, frequency, or layer count. See it updated in real-time. Don't rebuild your whole project. hotswan.dev/blog/compose...

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Chris Banes @chrisbanes.me · 29/04/2026

💠 Haze 2.0-alpha01 is out! This is a big release, splitting Haze up into layers, with the goal of enabling pluggable visual effects. Let me know what you think! chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-2...

chrisbanes.me

Haze 2.0: A Pluggable Visual Effects Engine

Haze 2.0-alpha01 turns blur into a pluggable effect, splitting it into a separate module and opening the door to custom visual effects built on top of a shared rendering infrastructure.

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Sebastian Sellmair @sellmair.dev · 19/11/2025

Say hello to Compose Hot Reload 1.1 🔥 Please give it a try and provide feedback: github.com/JetBrains/co... ☕️ JBR 25 support ⚡️ Recompilation Speed optimizations 😎 New visuals, New DevTools UX 📦 Faster, more lightweight protocol under the hood

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 27/04/2026

Metro reaches 1.0! It's the proudest work of my career and I strongly feel this is how dependency injection in Kotlin should be. Thank you to everyone that's contributed and helped this project get to where it's at. Metro wouldn't be where it is without you. www.zacsweers.dev/metro-is-sta...

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🚇 Metro is Stable

Metro 1.0.0 is out now and stable. This means that its runtime APIs (runtime, MetroX artifacts, Gradle plugin, etc.) are now API-stable unless annotated with an experimental annotation. This is an ex...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 23/04/2026

#JetpackCompose version 1.11 has landed! So many new APIs to try out along with some important changes. We've also detailed 4 (!) new large Experimental APls that we are actively looking for feedback on: 💅🏻 Styles! 🚥 Grid 💪🏻 FlexBox 🎞️ MediaQuery android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/jetp...

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Zac Sweers @zacsweers.dev · 05/04/2026

Metro 0.13.0 adds top-level contribution providers, Circuit code gen, and a new @DefaultBinding annotation. This also removes most deprecated APIs as Metro prepares to go stable (!!). If you have runtime API feedback, now is the time! github.com/ZacSweers/me...

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Release 0.13.0 · ZacSweers/metro

New Circuit codegen Metro now includes experimental built-in support for Circuit, a Compose-first architecture for building kotlin apps. See the docs for more details. In the long term, this will e...

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OpenTelemetry @opentelemetry.io · 23/03/2026

📣 Call for contributors! 📣 The #OpenTelemetry Kotlin SIG has begun active development and is looking for contributors. Join now and help drive the project forward! buff.ly/bmHxst4

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Jaewoong Eum (skydoves) @skydoves.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Snapshot of Compose "Snapshot" 🦢 Working on another snapshot feature for HotSwan, which captures a device screenshot after every successful hot reload and pairs it with code diff that triggered the reload. You can do Code Time Traveling (revert) to a specific snapshot moment.

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 10/03/2026

Trying to navigate how serialization works with Nav3 routes in multiplatform? Check out these great new docs we just published: kotlinlang.org/docs/...

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Saket Narayan @saket.me · 09/03/2026

The answer was no, so I'm building this myself as v2 of github.com/saket/swipe. Here's a first draft:

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Konstantin Klassen @konstantinklassen.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Just released the initial version of Snappy Swipe, inspired by Material 3 Expressive notifications. github.com/KlassenKonst...

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Jaewoong Eum (skydoves) @skydoves.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Custom View Preview deprecation. The Android Studio team is deprecating the Custom View Preview feature in the coming releases. If you're still using Views, it's really time to shift to Jetpack Compose. developer.android.com/studio/relea...

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Android Studio Panda 2 | Android Developers

Discover what's new in the latest versions of Android Studio, the official IDE for Android.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 04/03/2026

My fav new feature in the latest Android release is "Connected Displays".🖥️ You are able to plug in your phone to a big screen, and benefit from all the extra space that the screen provides 🤯 This means you should *really* ensure your app works on diff screen sizes.

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P-Y @p-y.wtf · 02/03/2026

Given this, calls for boycotting Square OSS are stupid. It's disrespectful to the hard work all these ex-Square engs have done. It won't hurt Square the company in any meaningful way, it just makes a bunch of your Android peers sad.

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P-Y @p-y.wtf · 02/03/2026

What happens to Square / Block Android OSS projects post layoffs? Let's start with some context OSS at Square is mostly a happy accident. Jack hired Bob, who's job was attracking world class engineers, and he did that through talks & OSS.

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 09/02/2026

Gradle now enables strict Gradle plugin validation for published plugins and automatically infers plugin id Both are requests that I've pushed for! docs.gradle.org/9.4.0-rc-1/r... Excited to see it land!

docs.gradle.org

Gradle 9.4.0-rc-1 Release Notes

We are excited to announce Gradle 9.4.0-rc-1.

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 09/02/2026

If you're using convention plugins and updating to AGP 9, check out this page that shows how to use the latest APIs: developer.android.co...

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Martin Bonnin @mbonnin.net · 05/02/2026

AGP9 is sooo 2025! New page for your 2026 Gradle project isolation tracking from @pablobaxter.com ! agp-status.frybits.com/gradle-proje...

agp-status.frybits.com

Gradle Project Isolation - AGP Plugin Status

Provide 3rd party status on AGP adoption

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 28/01/2026

Okay, here's the plan: @liutikas.net will teach me how to profile Gradle configuration times, and maybe we'll fix something in kotlinconf-app! 24 hours from now: Thursday, 8am PT / 5pm CET twitch.tv/zsmb13 Mark your calendar for a reminder: addcal.io/e/5t99s5irjfqs

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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 22/01/2026

Hot take (?): for a significantly easier time, schedule your AGP 9 upgrades for about two months from now. There'll be a lot more materials and samples available to help you, and various issues will have been fixed by then.

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