Android Developers

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 noisehttps://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 impacthttps://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 APIshttps://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 yethttps://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 cleanlyhttps://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 appshttps://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

Good read on the new retain API in Jetpack Compose. The article explains when and how to use retain, with examples showing how it helps preserve state across recompositions.https://avatsav.dev/hello-retain/

https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2026/02/android-studio-panda-1-202531-now.html