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🔴 We are LIVE! Android254 x Kotlin Kenya March Meetup is officially underway at @DaystarUni 🚀 Kicking off an exciting day of learning, building, and connecting with the Android & Kotlin community #Android254 #KotlinKenya #AndroidDev

Why Compose HotSwan 🦢 It explains how Compose HotSwan brings true Hot Reload to Android, avoiding rebuilds and app restarts. It enables instant UI updates on a running app while preserving state, improving development speed. hotswan.dev/docs/how-it-wo…

Compose Hot..Swan is finally here! 🦢 HotSwan allows you to do Compose Hot Reload in real Android devices, instant UI updates on your running Android app, with state preserved. No rebuilds, no relaunching, no navigating back to the same screen again. hotswan.dev

Compose Tip: You can debug recomposition counts and their causes in real time using the Compose Stability Analyzer plugin’s Live Recomposition Heatmap. skydoves.github.io/compose-stabil…

Calling all Android Devs! 🤖 I’m curious to hear your thoughts on AppFunctions. Have you found any standout use cases or do you have feedback to share? Let’s chat! 🙏 developer.android.com/ai/appfunctions

Android has always driven innovation in the industry through its unique flexibility and openness. At this important moment, we continue to be at the forefront of how developers distribute their apps and games on billions of devices globally. Today we are announcing big changes: – Leading the way in store choice: A registered app store program that makes installation of participating app stores easier with a streamlined flow – A new business model for Google Play with lower prices for developers: The ability to use your own billing alongside Google Play Billing, and lower service fees. These changes will make for a stronger Android ecosystem with more choice for users and even more successful developers who can further invest in higher quality experiences on mobile and beyond. The above will be rolling out in phases, subject to local laws and processes. We are also excited to announce that we’ve resolved all our disputes with Epic Games globally! Details on all of this can be found at our blog post. android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-…

The Kotlin roadmap was just updated! Check out what you can expect the team to work on in the near future. kotlinlang.org/docs/roadmap.h…

New article 🚀 Build-Logic module in Kotlin Multiplatform with AGP 9.0.0 — Convention Plugins explained. If you’re building scalable KMP apps, this structure will change how you manage Gradle ✅ blog.watermelonkode.com/build-logic-mo… #KotlinMultiplatform #Kotlin #AndroidDev #iOSDev #KMP #CMP

Built a lightweight mobile SDK that lets our QA agent know exactly what's happening under the hood. It tracks: - CPU/memory performance - Network requests & failures - Screen transitions - Tap gestures - Full distributed traces Give an agent this level of context and it stops guessing why a new feature isn't working. It just reads the trace and fixes the code.

Recomposition Pipeline in Jetpack Compose

📢 Kotlin 2.3.20-RC is out! Here are some of the highlights: ✅ Kotlin compiler plugins: Lombok is Alpha and improved JPA support in the kotlin.plugin.jpa plugin. ✅ Kotlin/Native: New interoperability mode for C. ✅ Gradle: Compatibility with Gradle 9.3.0 and Kotlin/JVM compilation uses BTA by default. ✅ Maven: Simplified setup for Kotlin projects. ✅ Standard library: New API for creating immutable copies of map entries. Try it out: kotl.in/2-3-20-rc

Built a mini Pokémon matching game today with #SwiftUI ✨ Got a solid dose of nostalgia while making this one 😄 Let me know what you think. #iosdevelopment

Just published a new article, 'Building a Google Maps Style Bottom Sheet with Jetpack Compose'. In this article, you'll explore how to build a Google Maps-style bottom sheet using FlexibleBottomSheet, covering how to configure three expansion states. doveletter.skydoves.me/preview/articl…

Today I want to share with you a stunning library and top final project on Coroutines Mastery 2025. Comet by Pandu Baraja @pandubaraja is a library for automatically tracking coroutines and their execution time. It allows us to track and analyze coroutines execution in real-time. It still has some limitations, but man, that seems like a very powerful idea! Code 👉 github.com/pandubaraja/co… #coroutinesmasteryproject

Another day of SwiftUI Experimentation ✨ Built a custom theme picker screen using #SwiftUI. Design inspired by @ThominoDesign Let me know what you think 📷

Kotlin User Groups are active all around the world, and the community spirit was on full display at a recent Kotlin Multiplatform meetup in Seoul. Even from afar, @kropp – Compose Multiplatform team lead at @JetBrains – opened the event with a warm and inspiring welcome. Moments like this show how powerful things become when shared interest, community, and collaboration come together 💜

The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest winners are in! 🎉 Congrats to: • huntit – Multiplayer scavenger hunt game • Clarity – Cognitive training + self-reflection app • ClipWhisper – Local clipboard sync utility kotlinconf.com/contest/ More details in the 🧵 ↓

In our Android Developer News app, #AndroidDev can find what packages were recently updated. #kotlin #JetpackCompose #KMP Download now ⬇️🙏 play.google.com/store/apps/det…

📢 Kotlin 2.3.10-RC2 is here! This release brings performance improvements and bug fixes. Changelog: ➡️ github.com/JetBrains/kotl…

Can confirm that Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform are really good 🤓✅ With AI generating the code, KMP is the obvious choice, especially for older (native) projects. But even for new apps I don't see compelling reasons to choose React Native or Flutter going forward.