Android Developers

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/07/introducing-the-kotlin-benchmark-evaluate-ai-coding-agents-on-real-world-kotlin-tasks/

https://medium.com/@miqdadya/gradual-migration-from-flutter-to-compose-multiplatform-5aba23630011

https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2026/04/android-studio-panda-4-canary-4-now.html

Nice overview of Android 17 Beta 3. CommonsWare digs into the API changes and calls out what might actually affect apps versus what’s just noise https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/03/27/random-musings-android-17-beta-3.html

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/03/intellij-idea-2026-1/

How a small change in a modern Compose app led to a 34% startup performance improvement. A good reminder that even small optimizations can have a big impact https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-i-found-a-34-startup-win-in-a-modern-compose-app-84953f77ae52

Good practical article on glowing borders in Compose. Demonstrates multiple implementations using shadows, gradients, and custom drawing APIs https://proandroiddev.com/how-many-ways-do-you-know-to-draw-a-glowing-border-in-jetpack-compose-57980d049562

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/room3#3.0.0-alpha01

Good engineering write-up from Vinted about moving from Dagger to Metro for dependency injection. The migration brought better Kotlin K2 compatibility and noticeably faster CI builds. https://vinted.engineering/2026/02/12/from-dagger-to-metro/

A perspective on why ViewModel may be considered deprecated in some contexts. The author presents a compose retain as an alternative approach, even though it isn’t a full replacement yet https://www.costafotiadis.com/post/viewmodel-is-deprecated

Good practical read on unit testing coroutines and flows in Android. The article shows how to write tests that handle suspending functions and Flow emissions cleanly https://medium.com/@mobileatexxeta/unit-testing-coroutines-and-flows-in-android-0e91b82cacd5

F-Droid published an open letter opposing Google’s mandatory developer verification proposal, arguing it threatens Android’s openness and could force all developers to register and verify with Google to distribute apps https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.ht...