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Invest in your #AndroidDev future this #BlackFriday!💡🚨 Early Bird tickets to @androidmakers.bsky.social are 20% off for 24 hours with the code: AM_20 🇫🇷 Grow your #Android skills. Meet the community in #Paris! Get your discounted tickets here: androidmakers.droidcon.com

Invest in your #AndroidDev future this Black Friday!💡

We’re kicking off our Orlando launch with a 48-hour #BlackFriday drop 🚨 Tickets are 20% off for 48 hours with the code: BFORL. Grow your #Android skills. Meet the community. Accelerate your #Android career. Discounted tickets: usa.droidcon.com

Recent JUnit Updates for Kotlin Key JUnit improvements for Kotlin, including JUnit 6.

#Kotlin testing just got easier. Discover #JUnit’s new contracts, Sequence support & suspend test features in #Android 🤖

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After 10 years in NYC, it’s time for our next chapter: Orlando 2026! ☀️Why? More accessibility, more room to grow, & lower costs for our #Android attendees. Thank you, #NYC 🍎 See you #AndroidDevs in #Orlando. Read more about our move here: usa.droidcon.com/letter-to-co...

Jetpack Compose: Static vs Dynamic CompositionLocals — Reads, Writes and Trade Offs This article assumes you’re already familiar with CompositionLocal. If not, start with the official docs.Reading the DocsBoth staticCompositionLocalOf and compositionLocalOf return a ProvidableComposi...

Understand how CompositionLocals work in #JetpackCompose — from reads and writes to real-world trade-offs. www.droidcon.com/2025/10/21/j...

Baking with functions: A guide to higher-order functions and lambdas in Kotlin Imagine your code isn’t just a set of instructions, but a recipe book. Some recipes are simple: “Add sugar, stir.” But what if you could have a recipe for a cookie maker, where you just hand it anothe...

Master higher-order functions & lambdas in #Kotlin to write cleaner, reusable #code & embrace functional programming.

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All the moments, all the memories – captured 📸

Our #dcldn25 event photos are now up on the site! Go find yourself, your friends, & your favourite #Android talks 👉 london.droidcon.com

The dust has settled, the talks are getting uploaded, & the energy is still unreal 🇬🇧🚀 Thank you for packing the rooms, asking the tough questions, & filling #dcldn25 with #Android energy. Please help us make next year even better by filling out this quick survey: droidcon.typeform.com/to/S1SoMIsV

Android OS Architecture: From Kernel to Apps Imagine Android as a sophisticated high-rise building. The foundation (kernel) supports the structure, the mechanical systems (HAL) connect utilities to different floors, the management offices (frame...

Explore #Android’s layered architecture. From kernel to #apps—see how each layer powers billions of devices 📲 www.droidcon.com/2025/10/17/a...

Compose Diaries with Selen: Building a Custom Floating Action Button Menu in Jetpack Compose Welcome to Compose Diaries! In this series where I document the wins, struggles, and little discoveries while building my next Android app (coming to the Play Store soon 🎉).

Follow this #AndroidDev's journey building a custom FAB menu in #JetpackCompose—#code included.

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Make sure to stick around at #dcldn25 for the The Android Show LIVE! 🎥 #Android leaders Matthew J. McCullough, Tor Norbye, Clara Bayarri & Jingyu Shi, sharing insider insights on what’s new & what’s next for Android, the latest #dev updates, Gemini demos in @AndroidStudio, & a live #AskAndroid Q&A.

The Android Developer’s Guide to Not Messing Up Serialization Hey there, fellow Android devs! Serialization is as fundamental to our jobs as coffee and chatGPT. We’re constantly converting data, network responses, file reads, or passing data between activities. ...

Lost in Parcelable vs Gson vs Moshi? ☕️ This guide breaks down #Android serialization tools with clear visuals + tips.

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🚨 #dcldn25 kicks off Thursday! Don’t miss The Android Show live from London—Gemini in @AndroidStudio, fresh dev news & live #AskAndroid.

Also catch the Day 2 Keynote with #Android leaders Matthew McCullough, Tor Norbye, Clara Bayarri & Jingyu Shi.
🎟️ Last chance for tickets → london.droidcon.com

What’s New in Compose Text: A Guide to the Latest APIs Text input is a core part of user interaction in Android apps. With the latest updates announced at Google I/O 2025, Jetpack Compose introduces powerful new text input APIs that transform how develope...

Discover #Compose’s new text input #APIs from Google I/O 2025—powerful, secure, & flexible tools for modern #Android #UIs.

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The Android Show is back LIVE at #dcldn25 📣

They'll unpack the latest Android dev news and show you demos of Gemini in Android Studio and more. Plus, they’ve assembled the team for a live #AskAndroid on building excellent apps, across devices! Secure your tickets: london.droidcon.com/tickets/

Pure MVI, MVI with Reducer, and MVI with State Machine Learn the differences between Pure MVI, Reducers, and State Machines in Android and when to use each.

Explore MVI patterns in #Android: Pure MVI, Reducer, or State Machine—when to use each for #Compose apps 🚀

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⏳ Countdown to #dcldn25 has begun! The event where #AndroidDevs stop reading #Android blogs & start building #app breakthroughs – leave with more than a badge. Get your ticket now! london.droidcon.com/tickets/

🚀 Supercharge Your App: Why the Android App Startup Library is a Must-Have The moment a user taps your app icon, the clock starts ticking. App startup time is a critical factor in how users perceive your application. A sluggish launch can lead to frustration and, ultimately,...

Learn how the #Android #Jetpack App Startup Library cuts launch time & boosts user experience from the first tap.

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🚨 #dcldn25 Keynote Announcement 🚨

4 minds, 1 mission: join top #AndroidDev experts, Manuel Vicente Vivo, Jaewoong Eum, Sebastian Aigner, & Erik Hellman as they share predictions, advice, & insights on where #Android is headed next. Don't miss out! Secure your ticket: london.droidcon.com/tickets

Kotlin Value Classes: Stop Wrapping Everything in Regular Classes I’ve been working with Kotlin for a few years now, and one feature that really changed how I write code is value classes. They’re not talked about enough, but they solve a real problem we all face: ho...

Value classes in #Kotlin let you wrap primitives safely, prevent mistakes, & add meaning—without sacrificing performance.

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MVS series: Creating nested states Check how we can efficiently organize many different states by using type safe tree-like structures!

Part of the State Machine series: learn how to create nested states to manage complex workflows in #Kotlin apps in #Android 🪹

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Visibility APIs in Jetpack Compose 1.9 Have you ever wondered how TikTok knows when to autoplay the next video, or how an app decides when to mark an item as “seen”?

#JetpackCompose 1.9 introduces visibility #APIs, making it easy to track when Composables appear or disappear in your #UI 🔍 www.droidcon.com/2025/10/07/v...

We’re excited to have the official #AndroidDev team back again at #dcldn25 & in an even bigger way than last year! 🚨 Keynote hosted by Matthew J. McCullough & team. Expect office hours, talks, & more, direct from the #Android team at @developers.google.com 📣 Tickets: london.droidcon.com

Inside Android: From Zygote to Binder Most explanations of Android internals either oversimplify the concepts or get lost in technical details Let me try a different approach — explaining how Android actually works while keeping the key c...

Read about #Android’s design. Zygote, Binder, wakelocks: boosts performance, security, battery life, & reliability beyond “just Linux + #Java.” www.droidcon.com/2025/10/07/i...

Building Modern Apps with privacy focused SAF and Media Apis Android Apps are one of the most common source of data breaches and scams, and if your app is still requesting for READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE or WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission in 2025, you need to serio...

Still using READ/WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE in 2025? It’s time to rethink your #Android app’s #datasecurity 🔐

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Kotlin Infix Functions: The Secret to Natural Language Code I remember the first time I saw this line of Kotlin code:val coordinates = 10 to 20Coming from Java, I thought “to” was some special keyword. Turns out, it’s just a regular function call! This is the ...

Learn how #Kotlin infix functions in #Android work under the hood 🔧

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⏰ Only 5 days LEFT! Get your #Android ticket at regular price to London's biggest #AndroidDev event! After that, prices go up, & there’s no turning back. Secure your #dcldn25 ticket before prices jump 🎟️ london.droidcon.com/tickets

The Golden Rule of Coroutine Exceptions At its heart, exception handling in coroutines is all about structured concurrency. Think of it like a family tree. If a child coroutine fails with an exception, it tells its parent. The parent then c...

Exception handling in #coroutines relies on structured concurrency.

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droidcon Berlin Needs Your #AndroidDev Hot Takes 📝

Tell us what you loved about #dcbln25, what we can improve, & what you want to see next year. Take 2 minutes to fill out our survey — your feedback makes droidcon even better. 👉 droidcon.typeform.com/to/kDIlWSA2