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💌 In today’s Dispatch: Closing my Airbnb chapter ✨ Swift on Android 🤯 Timezones are complicated ⌛️ Touch me not Composables 👉
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🔥 We meet the team behind Firebender 🏋🏻 Easiest one-line win of the year 🤏 Composable scoped View Model's and 🌈 performant way to modify background color
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🛼 2D Scrolling 🎣 Prefetching Lists 🔎 Better Compose Debugging & 🏗️ Architecting Persistent UI Elements
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 💰 Selling Android apps 🛠️ Metro DI takes the crown, 🚨 AndroidView anti‐pattern exposed & 🔐 Telegram’s hash‐coded file bans
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 📸 Screenshot testing pro-tips ✨ Native shadows in Compose, 🤖 Kotlin powering AI SDKs, 📱 Android 16 adaptivity shift & ⚡️ 6× faster transforms
💌 In today's issue, we talk to some Android experts and hear from them about their hot-takes, predictions, wishes and advice about how they expect the Android ecosystem to change and how to best prepare for that future.
💌 In today's edition, you get inside scoop from Google I/O, interesting updates from the event that impact your daily life & hear from other Android experts about what they are most excited about.
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🗑️ Google Play’s 47 % app-purge drama, 🛠️ Amazon’s shiny new KMP “App Platform”, 🎞️ ADB slow-mo frame-timing captures, 🎨 the theme bug that steals your Column’s color, 🤣 "Soft Earnings" and 📊 @Preview-free code-coverage magic.
💌 In today's issue, we talk about the 💸 strange hiring market and salaries, 💣 latest BOM drop, 📈 sorting UUIDs and obviously...AI 👂
💌 In today's issue, we talk about 🧐 cheating during interviews, 💸 fully transparent salaries, 🪄 Google's big "agentic" bet, 🕵🏻♂️ committing a Kotlin crime and 🫨 jittery text animations
💌 In today's issue, we talk about 🥶 chilly mobile hiring trends, the best Kotlin speaking LLMs 🗣️, another project in the Google graveyard 🪦, shadcn/ui for Android ✨ and learn how to trust time ⏰
💌 In today's issue, we talk about 🐦🔥 "Swift on Android," learn some mind-boggling facts about naming variables, discuss my recent chat with Kaushik Gopal, and explore how to provide the entire codebase to an LLM.