Join us for an exciting episode as Romain Guy from Google delves into the nuances of Kotlin performance and optimizations. We discuss strategies for enhancing code efficiency and best practices for writing high-performance Kotlin applications. Whether you're…

On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily devel

As of today, Picasso is formally deprecated. You can read more here: https://github.com/square/picasso/?tab=readme-ov-file#picasso. Thank you for all the support over the years.

In other news, Coil 3.0 was also just released! https://androiddev.social/@…

Using thermal physics, cosmology, and computer science to calculate password vulnerability to the biggest possible brute-force attack.

I will document my journey of building "Compose Hot Reload" in the upcoming videos.
This video will demo the current state (16.11.2024) and briefly introduce the project.

Let’s talk about centering things. There is no Modifier.center() in Compose, nor is there a Center composable, and I think the reason for that is because once you understand Compose's layout system you'll find those concepts redundant. In this article I'm…

As we consume more content on our devices, it's more important than ever to provide delightful user experiences for media across different navigation destinations, panes within those destinations, and devices and form factors those panes span.

In this episode Chet, Romain and Tor chat with Shai Barack about how the Android platform team studies performance and understands system health - and what is system health anyway? We talk about measuring performance, deciding trade-offs, and our favorite…

Recording brought to you by American Express. https://americanexpress.io/kotlin-jobs

I believe great programmers are not born; they are made. Or rather, they make themselves, carefully and deliberately over time. I am not talking about the folks who rote…

Klibs.io is an easy web service that allows you to find a Kotlin Multiplatform library for a specific purpose that supports selected platforms (JVM, Android JVM, Wasm, JS, Kotlin/Native).

Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite

A couple of years ago, we initiated the idea of creating a Kotlin Multiplatform IDE to help facilitate the development of KMP applications. We embarked on this venture, building on the Fleet platform,

Mellum doesn't pretend to know everything, but it does one thing exceptionally well. We call it a focal model – small, efficient, and built with a specialized focus.

Kotlin Multiplatform becomes a complete solution for mobile development, enabling flexible code sharing across both business logic and UI without compromising app quality or losing control over platform-specific capabilities.