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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · 24/09/2026

Using new Jetpack Compose A2UI library to show UI (cards, charts, tabs etc) generated by a Koog based AI agent in the ClimateTrace sample, including custom components and handling user actions @androiddevs.bsky.social johnoreilly.dev/posts/a2ui-c... Really cool to see these capabilities emerging!

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Rendering AI agent generated UI using Jetpack Compose A2UI and Koog

A2UI is a protocol that allows an AI agent to describe a user interface as JSON which the client then renders using its own native components (the agent can only make use of components from a “catalog...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 21/05/2026

Google IO 2026 is a wrap! 🥳 Our #JetpackCompose talk is now available online! 😎 Learn all about how to Build custom design systems with Jetpack Compose's new Styles API io.google/2026/explore...

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Nick Butcher @nickbutcher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Material is #ComposeFirst m3.material.io/blog/materia...

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

Join Ash, @dagalpin.bsky.social and me to learn What's New in Android later today #GoogleIO

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

Excited to be back at #GoogleIO. If you're here come day hi and talk to us about all things Compose and #AndroidDev

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🚀 Super happy to announce the launch of Android Skills and CLI 🚀 - a new suite of tools and resources for more efficient and better informed Android development with AI A powerful combo 💪 - try it out and send feedback 👩‍🔬 github.com/android/skills developer.android.com/tools/agents

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GitHub - android/skills

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 05/03/2026

Switching which device test you want in Android Studio will now have configuration cache hits! This should make your test inner development loop so much faster! To make this work you need @gradle.com >=9.4.0 and AGP >=9.1.0 #gradle #androiddev

A screenshot of Android Studio showing Gradle configuration cache hit when running a Android device test

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 05/03/2026

Loved this inspirational example of building out motion blurring in #JetpackCompose from @piotr_prus 💓 Sometimes the smallest of effects can make your app just feel *that* much more fun! proandroiddev.com/motion-blur-...

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Alex Vanyo @vanyo.dev · 04/12/2025

It's satisfying to see the integration point between Navigation 3 and ListDetailPaneScaffold come together after the previous approaches - the list and detail panes can finally be proper backstack entries _and_ be displayed simultaneously without nesting! Pointing out key parts of the new setup:

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Nick Butcher @nickbutcher.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We just released Jetpack Compose 1.10 with new features and a number of performance improvements. What's your favourite thing in this release? I 💚 the improvements to shared elements. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/what...

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What's new in the Jetpack Compose December '25 release

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

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Rahul Ravikumar @rahulrav.com · 24/11/2025

My talk: The Busy Android Developers Guide to Perfetto is now up on YouTube ! Root-causing problems is a lot of fun. Once you start you can't stop 😜 Happy Tracing !!

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Maria Neumayer @marianeum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Don't ignore this tip! We've switched to using the optimized proguard file & shrinking resources in our latest release and have seen a massive drop in all performance related metrics, with slow app launch metrics dropping >30%. All from a 5 minute code change!

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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 · 17/11/2025

The single biggest performance impact for the Reddit app came from enabling the R8 optimizer's full potential. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/how-...

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How Reddit used the R8 optimizer for high impact performance improvements

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

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

One of the questions I get asked most about Navigation 3 is "how can I create multiple back stacks?". Now there's a recipe for that: github.com/android/nav3...

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nav3-recipes/app/src/main/java/com/example/nav3recipes/multiplestacks at main · android/nav3-recipes

Implement common use cases with Jetpack Navigation 3 - android/nav3-recipes

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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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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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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

✨ New and improved Agent features for Compose now in Canary! 🦦 Generate & transform composables with imgs and text, generate Previews, improve code quality... I can't fit it all🙃 Get the latest Canary & the release notes, submit issues, have fun! 😊 developer.android.com/studio/previ...

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Release notes for Android Studio preview | Android Developers

Discover new features and changes in Android Studio preview.

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Nick Butcher @nickbutcher.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Last week I had to upgrade the firmware on my bike's gears and today I have to factory reset my sunglasses. What a time to be alive!

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 24/06/2025

Compose 1.9 just hit beta01 & another exciting feature landing is a way to reliably determine if something is visible on screen & a way to get notified of visibility changes 📣 💅 New modifiers are entering the chat in this space: Modifier.onFirstVisible() & Modifier.onVisibilityChanged().

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Cyril Mottier @cyrilmottier.com · 20/06/2025

Playing around with the UI for fun. Designing such micro-interactions and animations is a breeze thanks to Compose. P.S. If you didn't catch it, a full vinyl rotation takes exactly 1800ms. That's 33 RPM 🎶💿

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Alex Vanyo @vanyo.dev · 20/06/2025

I'm excited to be speaking at #DroidconNYC next Thursday, hope to see you there! I'll be covering how to handle configuration changes in Compose, and specifically trying to answer the question of what you should put in android:configChanges and - probably more importantly - why. #AndroidDev

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 17/06/2025

You've asked for this... and now Compose 1.9 alpha introduces two new modifiers 👀 Modifier.innerShadow() and Modifier.dropShadow() Allowing you to more closely align your designs to your Figma specs, unlocking fun effects like Neumorphic type UIs 😍 github.com/riggaroo/com...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 23/05/2025

🥳 Excited to share our latest blog post on Material 3 Expressive Motion Theming! 🤿 Dive into how the new physics-based system brings interactions and transitions to life. Read it here: m3.material.io/blog/m3-expr... #AndroidDev

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Our #IO25 talk on how to build more accessible apps with Compose is out! 🥳 Lots of tips on choosing appropriate semantics, merging, clearing & hiding, inspection & debug, accessibility checks in tests 🫶 Check it out ☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=80qk...

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Build more accessible UIs with Jetpack Compose

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Alex Vanyo @vanyo.dev · 21/05/2025

Scenes! If there's only one concept to call out for Navigation 3, it's scenes. The abstraction layer allows showing multiple panes at a time, and in different ways. It's the integration hook that integrates Navigation3 with ListDetailPaneScaffold in a flexible, satisfying way.

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sinasamaki @sinasamaki.com · 19/05/2025

✨🎬 New video on creating delightful path animations in #JetpackCompose youtu.be/20b_bshZo84 #AndroidDev #Kotlin #ComposeMultiplatform

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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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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · 04/05/2025

For the first time I'm officially a part of Google IO. Listen to us talk about text input in Compose and how it's changing. I promise you will learn something new :) io.google/2025/explore...

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Google I/O 2025: Mastering text input in Compose

Don’t miss Google I/O, featuring product launches, innovations, and insights. Tune in for the live keynotes and sessions.

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Hyped to be speaking at #IO25 on how to build more accessible apps with #JetpackCompose 🎉 : classifying components, choosing appropriate semantics, merging and clearing wisely, traversal, inspection & debug tips, accessibility checks in tests & more! 🚀 See ya in May: io.google/2025/explore... 🤩

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Google I/O 2025: Build more accessible UIs with Jetpack Compose

Don’t miss Google I/O, featuring product launches, innovations, and insights. Tune in for the live keynotes and sessions.

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 01/05/2025

I'm proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle. Enjoy it! blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-... #gradle

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Gradle Best Practices - A Path to Build Happiness

Gradle Build Tool, also known as Gradle, is a highly flexible and extensible build system. It supports multiple ways to structure and configure builds, making it incredibly powerful—but also somewhat ...

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Alex Vanyo @vanyo.dev · 28/04/2025

A small but extremely useful foundational API added in #JetpackCompose 1.8: LocalWindowInfo.current.containerSize It's the best way to get the size of the window, which should form the basis for any breakpoint logic for top-level layouts like window size classes. #AndroidDev

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Nick Butcher @nickbutcher.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

15 years at Google on Saturday! Grateful to everyone that I've worked with and learned from and still love working for the #AndroidDev community 💚

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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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Cyril Mottier @cyrilmottier.com · 13/03/2025

Super pumped to share our journey with Bump by amo on the official Android Developers blog! Dive into how we crafted delightful experiences using Kotlin, Compose, Media3 and Play Services. medium.com/androiddevel...

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Bump’s Journey into Delightful Experiences on Android with Jetpack Compose

Bump leverages Jetpack Compose on Android, delivering meaningful touch-based feedback through graphics, haptics, and sound.

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Chris Sinco @csinco.com · 27/02/2025

Inspired by this article, I built a small tool in Compose Desktop to more easily iterate through building fancy mesh gradients from @sinasamaki.com's Modifier recipe! Code is here github.com/c5inco/Mesh with the code export assuming you are using the same Modifier recipe

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sinasamaki @sinasamaki.com · 07/02/2025

✨ New article out now! Learn how to animate mesh gradients in #JetpackCompose www.sinasamaki.com/mesh-gradients-in-jetpack-compose/

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Alex Vanyo @vanyo.dev · 31/01/2025

UI that isn't tested is UI that can break. There are Compose techniques for each part of testing - quick verification when iterating, and automating both visual tests and behavior tests. And coming in Compose 1.8, don't miss the new DeviceConfigurationOverride.WindowInsets for testing insets!

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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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Nick Butcher @nickbutcher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We're hiring a 🆕 Product Manager for #JetpackCompose in Bengaluru — come work with me! goo.gle/compose-pm-in We're also hiring software engineers and DevRel 👇

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Jolanda Verhoef @lojanda.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🚀 Did you know there's a new Compose artifact for working with CameraX? Let me tell you all about it in a new blog post series "Unlocking the Power of CameraX in Jetpack Compose". In part 1, I explain how to use the new artifact and show a camera preview in your app. goo.gle/3ZOk9Nj

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Getting Started with CameraX in Jetpack Compose

Part 1 — A guide to building a basic camera preview, covering setup, permissions, ViewModel creation, and UI implementation.

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Jose Alcérreca @josealcerreca.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The video of our talk "Scalable Testing Strategies" is out! www.droidcon.com/2024/11/22/s... A summary:

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Jose Alcérreca @josealcerreca.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

📣 The testing documentation has received a major update! Opinionated testing strategies, screenshot testing, performance tests, flakiness, Robolectric and large screens! I published a summary here -> medium.com/androiddevel...

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Test smarter, not harder: new testing strategies documentation

A significant update to our official documentation on testing strategies will help you create more robust apps across form factors.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 04/11/2024

The Jetpack Compose team is hiring in London! If you'd like to join us, see the full job posting at goo.gle/4fdrpco

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Software Engineer III, Android Toolkit, Jetpack Compose - London — Google Careers

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