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November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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Ian Lake

@ianlake.bsky.social

The first #JetpackReleaseNotes of November include SplashScreen 1.2.0, SavedState 1.4.0, Navigation 2.9.6, RC releases in Navigation3, NavigationEvent, Activity, and Lifecycle and Compose 1.10.0-beta02.
developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

Unreasonable Configuration - What is a Normal Amount of Gradle Configuration Time?

November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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Aurimas Liutikas

@liutikas.net

I got a bunch of questions about it, so I wrote a post
www.liutikas.net/2025/11/02/U...

It is very difficult to fix something if you don’t know what a normal behavior looks like. Through my conversations at DroidCon London this year I realized t...

NavigationEvent is a Kotlin Multiplatform library for handling system gestures - back and forward - on all platforms. It works on Android, iOS and Desktop with Web support coming next. Android used to...

November 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM

Marcello Galhardo

@marcellogalhardo.dev

Just published "NavigationEvent Info".

marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/naviga...

#AndroidDev #Kotlin #KMP #CMP

NavigationEvent Info

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November 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM

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Márton Braun

@zsmb.co

The Android team has just released a brand new landing page for Kotlin Multiplatform, explaining the technology and showing how Google and JetBrains are support different parts of the ecosystem!

developer.android.co...

October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Ian Lake

@ianlake.bsky.social

Navigation3 reaches API stability this week with the 1.0.0-beta01 release! There's a few important bug fixes in this release as well, but this beta means we're only a few weeks away from rc01 and then stable!

If you run into any issues, please let us know ASAP
developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

navigation3 | Jetpack | Android Developers

October 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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Ian Lake

@ianlake.bsky.social

This week's #JetpackReleaseNotes include Work manager 2.11.0, Compose Material3 Adaptive 1.2.0, Graphics 1.1.0, bug fixes in Compose 1.9.4, Wear Compose 1.5.4, and Room 2.8.3 plus beta01 releases of Navigation3 (🎉), Lifecycle, Activity, DataStore, and Compose.
developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

Managing very large projects with Gradle and Intellij IDEA-based IDEs

October 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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Rahul Ravikumar

@rahulrav.com

I made plot-benchmarks (a tool to view and compare AndroidX Benchmark Results) public.
androidx.dev/benchmarks/p...

Simply drag and drop the benchmark JSON to the page, and you can start plotting and comparing !

The souce code for the app is here: cs.android.com/androidx/pla...

Plot Benchmarks

androidx.dev

October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Aurimas Liutikas

@liutikas.net

Awesome post from @f1xedgear.bsky.social and @autonomousapps.bsky.social about improving Gradle sync times in the IDE

engineering.block.xyz/blog/shrinki...

#gradle

Shrinking Elephants

engineering.block.xyz

October 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM

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Ian Lake

@ianlake.bsky.social

This week's #JetpackReleaseNotes include Metrics (aka 'JankStats') 1.0.0, Heifwriter 1.1.0, Health Connect 1.1.0, bug fixes in Camera 1.5.1, Compose 1.9.3, Room 2.8.2, and Wear Compose 1.5.3 plus lots of changes in Navigation3 1.0.0-alpha11.
developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

Senior Software Engineer, Jetpack Compose — Google Careers

October 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM

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Aurimas Liutikas

@liutikas.net

Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)?

Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...

www.google.com

October 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Aurimas Liutikas

@liutikas.net

A quick write up of an investigation for a test failure with NoSuchFieldError

www.liutikas.net/2025/10/06/N...

NoSuchFieldError - JavaVersion does not have member field 'JavaVersion$Companion Companion'

AndroidX team strongly believes in shadow jobs to catch regressions early. Metalava tool that we use to track androidx APIs builds on top of Android Lint inf...

Input to Your Inputs - What Invalidates Gradle Configuration Cache?

October 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM

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Aurimas Liutikas

@liutikas.net

If you are using Gradle configuration cache you know that one of the most frustrating parts of the experience is unexpected CC misses. I wrote a post on how to minimize that!

www.liutikas.net/2025/09/30/I...

#gradle

By now you have hopefully adopted Gradle’s configuration cache (CC) feature, and it is giving you huge speed-ups by skipping configuration phase for quick it...

navigation3 | Jetpack | Android Developers

September 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM

Marcello Galhardo

@marcellogalhardo.dev

Been using this as my daily Bluesky client on Android, even in early access it's fantastic (and the animations are stunning). Props to @tunji.dev for the awesome work in @heron.tunji.dev!

TJ @tunji.dev · Sep 29

I'm excited to announce something I've been building, an open source atproto client heron.tunji.dev!

Its currently available in beta on Google Play for Android devices. Please DM @heron.tunji.dev if you'd like early access.

It will be released to all Android users in the next few weeks!

September 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM

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Zac Sweers

@zacsweers.dev

Designers when an android engineer ask to just use the system back arrow: “our custom back arrow is an expression of our brand, we cannot yield to looking like a Google app”

Designers when Liquid Glass looks like shit everywhere in their app: “LEROY JENKINSSSSSSS”

September 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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Ian Lake

@ianlake.bsky.social

Navigation3 1.0.0-alpha10 improves rememberNavBackStack's KMP support, breaks Scene APIs into its own package, & we've broken two layers out of NavDisplay in rememberDecoratedNavEntries (for multiple back stacks) and rememberSceneState (for owning system back).
developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

September 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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Ian Lake

@ianlake.bsky.social

This week's #JetpackReleaseNotes includes Window 1.5.0, Compose Material3 1.4.0 plus bug fixes in Compose 1.9.2, Navigation 2.9.5, Room 2.8.1, Sqlite 2.6.1, Wear Compose 1.5.2, and WorkManager 2.10.5.
developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

navigationevent | Jetpack | Android Developers

September 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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Ian Lake

@ianlake.bsky.social

NavigationEvent 1.0.0-alpha09 makes some pretty sweeping changes to the API surface.
- Dispatcher now focuses on global state with the new history and transitionState properties
- Handler has local state
- Compose users get a NavigationEventState for hoisting

developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

I’ve been using the IDEA Vim plugin in Android Studio for a while. I only ever learned the basics with Practical Vim, but that’s been enough. The nice part is how the same muscle memory works everywhe...

September 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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Android Developers

@androiddevs.bsky.social

Build smaller, faster Android apps with R8 → https://goo.gle/4m9s80K

Our new docs cover everything from basics to advanced options, with guides and examples to help you write the right keep rules, shrink apps, and boost performance.

September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Marcello Galhardo

@marcellogalhardo.dev

Just published "IDEA Vim".

marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/idea-vim

#AndroidDev #VIM #IDEA

IDEA Vim

marcellogalhardo.dev

September 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM

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Kotlin by JetBrains

@kotlinlang.org

📢 The Kotlin 2.2.20 release is out, bringing important changes for web development! Kotlin/Wasm is now Beta, with improved exception handling in JavaScript interop, npm dependency management, built-in browser debugging support, and a new shared source set for js and wasmJs targets.

🔗 kotl.in/2.2.20

Kotlin 2.2.20 Released | The Kotlin Blog

The Kotlin 2.2.20 release is out! This version delivers important changes for web development and other improvements. Learn more!

kotl.in

September 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Ian Lake

@ianlake.bsky.social

Today's #JetpackReleaseNotes includes Camera and Camera ViewFinder 1.5.0, Room 2.8.0, Hilt 1.3.0, plus bug fixes in Compose 1.9.1, Navigation 2.9.4, and Navigation3 1.0.0-alpha09.
developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

Gradle Tower of Babel - Building on Top Of Other Plugins

September 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM

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Aurimas Liutikas

@liutikas.net

I've seen a number of folks working on Gradle plugins struggle with writing a plugin that builds on top of another Gradle plugin, so I wrote a short post that talks about some of the gotchas in that work.

www.liutikas.net/2025/09/04/G...

#gradle

Gradle provides almost no guidance on how to build a Gradle plugin that builds on top of a different Gradle plugin. In this post I want to share a sliver of ...