Android developer Artem Garazha reports that Android 17's mandatory resizability rules remove legacy manifest opt-outs like screenOrientation and resizeableActivity for apps targeting API level 37 on …
Instagram Direct engineers rebuilt the messaging surface's UI on Jetpack Compose as an AI-native codebase, producing a 50% smaller codebase, a 35% reduction in AI agent execution time, 32% fewer engin…
Google published a tutorial showing Android developers how to build cloud-hosted in-app agentic workflows using the Agent Development Kit (ADK), the AG-UI transport protocol, and the A2UI protocol to …
A developer outlines a multi-stage workflow for using Gemini in Android Studio and AI coding agents to migrate legacy Android codebases from RxJava and XML Views to Kotlin Coroutines, StateFlow, and J…
A developer published a tutorial for building an offline-first Kotlin/Android control layer for robotics and Physical AI systems, using Jetpack Compose, ViewModel/Flow, and a repository pattern to sit…
A developer published a tutorial showing how to build a Kotlin/Jetpack Compose diagnostics dashboard for robotics and Physical AI systems, using StateFlow and a ViewModel/Repository architecture to st…
A developer published a tutorial showing how to build a Kotlin/Android operator layer for robotics, XR, and edge-AI systems that pairs vision-language-action models with bounded, lifecycle-aware state…
Dolphin Emulator released version 2609, which adds NetPlay support to its Android build and addresses an AI-driven wave of vulnerability reports plus a macOS buildbot cryptominer compromise that the p…
Google published androidx.a2ui and androidx.a2ui.compose as new Jetpack artifact groups containing a 1.0.0-alpha01 edition of its official A2UI engine for Compose, alongside androidx.compose.material3…
A developer has released Vobiz VoIP, a native Kotlin Android dialer that places and receives PSTN calls through the Vobiz platform using SIP over secure WebSocket signaling and WebRTC audio. The app, …
Google released Android Bench 2.0, adding long-horizon tasks (LHT) and agentic evaluation to its benchmark for large language models assisting Android developers. The highest pass rate on the new mult…
Shopify is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin, a reversal of its 2020 and 2025 commitments to the cross-platform framework, Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali anno…
Shopify migrated its Shop app from React Native to fully native Swift and Kotlin code, a move the company said was enabled by advances in coding agents, after a one-week proof of concept by a single e…
Developer Kriddss3 has open-sourced Kryzz AI, a local-first Android AI workspace for chat, voice, and tool-driven agents. The MIT-licensed app, built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, stores credential…
A developer built ALST (AI Live Screen Translation), an open-source Android app that translates screen content in real time and overlays the translated text directly on the original coordinates. The a…
Deno's Dactyl has built its own SwiftUI implementation to preview iPhone apps in a browser and compile the same Swift source into Android applications, according to an August 26 technical post by Deno…
A developer built Phonebook, an open-source CLI and MCP server that converts existing Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI previews into a static, self-hosted HTML gallery, offering a Storybook-style component…
Noctua, an open-source Kotlin SDK for the Oura Ring, provides on-device AI wellness insights and next-day readiness forecasts without uploading health data to the cloud. The SDK includes a typed Oura …
A developer's guide highlights the overlooked security risk of unsanitized LLM outputs, proposing a Zero Trust egress filter between models and downstream systems. The article details four attack patt…
A developer outlines an architecture for building AI robots that combines Android for the operator interface, NVIDIA Jetson for edge AI compute, and ROS 2 for robotics middleware. The design uses a se…