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I just published How a Misplaced Dependency Blew Up Our APK Size — And How We Prevented It Forever

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How a Misplaced Dependency Blew Up Our APK Size — And How We Prevented It Forever
In Android development, small mistakes can cause big problems.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I just published 🌒 Expanded Dark Theme in Android: Smarter Inversion for a More Inclusive UI

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🌒 Expanded Dark Theme in Android: Smarter Inversion for a More Inclusive UI
Dark theme has evolved from a design trend to a core accessibility feature. With Android's latest update, a new expanded dark theme option…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Today's #JetpackReleaseNotes include Wear Compose 1.5.0 (the first stable release with Material 3 Expressive), more KMP targets in Lifecycle 2.9.3, SavedState 1.3.2, Paging 3.4.0-alpha03, and Navigation3 1.0.0-alpha08 plus the first Material3+Navigation3 alpha!

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Recent Release Notes  |  Android Developers
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August 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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I just published Live Updates in Android 16: Exploring the Next Evolution of Notifications medium.com/p/live-updat...

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Live Updates in Android 16: Exploring the Next Evolution of Notifications
Starting with Android 16, we have a new notification style Notification.ProgressStyle which we can use to create progress-centric…
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May 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I just published Automate A11y Testing in Compose medium.com/p/automate-a...

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Automate A11y Testing in Compose
This article will explore how the Accessibility Testing Framework (ATF) can automate accessibility-related checks for Compose-based UIs.
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May 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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#jetpackcompose #androiddev #kotlin #composeui #android… | Nav Singh
🚀 New in Jetpack Compose 1.9.0-alpha03! 👋 Say hello to the brand new 👁️ Modifier.𝐨𝐧𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𖣠 It lets us track when a Composable becomes 👁️ visible or hidden 🫥 on the screen — perfect for u...
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May 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I just published Express Yourself: Designing with Material 3 Expressive in Compose

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Express Yourself: Designing with Material 3 Expressive in Compose
Greetings, fellow Android developers! Today, we will learn about Material 3 Expressive, Google’s new design system, which was announced at…
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May 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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I just published 🔆 Keep the Lights On: Using keepScreenOn in Jetpack Compose medium.com/p/keep-the-l...

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🔆 Keep the Lights On: Using keepScreenOn in Jetpack Compose
In this article, we will look at how Compose-based applications can use the new modifier to keep the screen on 🔆
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May 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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With 𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱𝘅.𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲.𝘂𝗶:𝟭.𝟵.𝟬-𝗮𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮𝟬𝟭, we can now use the brand-new 𝑴𝙤𝒅𝙞𝒇𝙞𝒆𝙧.𝙠𝒆𝙚𝒑𝙎𝒄𝙧𝒆𝙚𝒏𝙊𝒏() to keep the screen awake with ease💤
🤚No more juggling with 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐬
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May 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I just published Mastering LinkAnnotation: The Modern Approach to Text Links
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Mastering LinkAnnotation: The Modern Approach to Text Links
In this article, we will learn how to migrate ClickableText to a LinkAnnotation-based solution for text that contains clickable text [URL…
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April 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I just published April ’25 Jetpack Compose Drop: My Favorite New Features 🔥 medium.com/p/april-25-j...

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April ’25 Jetpack Compose Drop: My Favorite New Features 🔥
In this article, I will share my favorite Compose updates from the April-2025 release.
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April 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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🗒️ 𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗽 - 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝟯-𝗨𝗜-𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲: 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗨𝗜𝘀 ✍️

📚 Media3’s 1.6.0 Read full article here 👇

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Getting Started with Media3-UI-Compose: Compose UIs for Media Playback
Media3’s 1.6.0 version introduced a new module media3-ui-compose, which provides state classes linked to the player, that we can use to…
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April 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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A more flexible Checkbox-Material3
Starting with version 1.4.0-alpha07 of compose.material3:material3 we get a new API for Checkbox, which provides us an option to customize…
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February 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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📣 The testing documentation has received a major update! Opinionated testing strategies, screenshot testing, performance tests, flakiness, Robolectric and large screens! I published a summary here -> medium.com/androiddevel...
Test smarter, not harder: new testing strategies documentation
A significant update to our official documentation on testing strategies will help you create more robust apps across form factors.
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November 21, 2024 at 9:43 PM