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Compose Mesh Gradient, Apple SwiftUI like mesh gradients for Jetpack Compose | by Omkar Deshmukh | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
Create stunning, interactive, and animated backgrounds in Jetpack Compose with the power of ComposeMeshGradient. Apple release mesh gradients in WWDC 2024 for iOS 18 and Xcode 16 which allows…
Kotlin’s @RequiresOptIn. A hidden safety net you probably ignore. | by Dmitry Glazunov | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
I’ve worked on a few internal libraries where parts of the API weren’t ready for prime time — but still needed to be tested or used by early adopters. Sometimes, a simple @Deprecated with a warning…
Previewing RetainedEffect: A New Side Effect to Bridge Between Composition and Retention Lifecycles | by Jaewoong Eum | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
The Jetpack Compose ecosystem has grown exponentially in recent years, and it is now widely adopted for building production-level UIs in Android applications. We can now say that Jetpack Compose is…
Integration Testing on Android: A Practical Guide with Hilt, Compose & Room | by Tobi Oyelekan | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
Testing is a critical part of building reliable software. While many teams focus heavily on unit tests covering 70–80% of the codebase, integration testing is often overlooked. Yet, integration tests…
Fix Raw RTMP Live Streaming on Android: The Missing Piece for ExoPlayer (Part 2) | by Shubham Kumar Gupta | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
In my previous article, we walked through setting up a Node.js media server and building an Android client to play an RTMP stream developing kind of both server and client. While that setup worked…
Still Using Fragments in 2025? Here’s Why You Might Be Living in the Past | by Vaibhav Shakya | Mr Neo | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
Let’s break it down! Here are the classic ways we used fragments, and how Compose does each one today — with code you’ll actually want to read. Don’t forget to implement DialogFragment, override…
Android vs. The Big Bad Media Files: Win Every Time With These Pro Tips | by Vaibhav Shakya | Mr Neo | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
Ever had your Android app buckle under the weight of a single “holiday selfie” or that one video file so big it could sink the Titanic (again)? Congrats — you’re officially an Android dev who works…
How did I analyze battery stats using Battery Historian for Android? | by Shubham Kumar Gupta | ProAndroidDev
First, go to the developers option on your mobile and choose -> Bug report -> Full Report ->Interactive Report First we need to reset out batterystats and then we can use our app, let our services…
Speed Up Your Gradle Build with These 7 Proven Tweaks (That Saved Me Hours) | by Vaibhav Shakya | Mr Neo | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
A few months ago, I was working on a mid-sized Android project with multiple modules, Firebase integration, and some heavy Jetpack Compose usage. Everything was going great — except one thing: Every…
Article 5: Everything you need to know about Material Design in Jetpack Compose | by Selen Demir | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
In this final post of the Jetpack Compose series, we will be talking about how Material Design makes your UI more expressive, cohesive, and adaptable across devices and also help you with…
This One Line of Code Made My Android App Summarise Anything Instantly 😱 | by Jose Garcia | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
I thought on-device AI was still a distant dream — until I plugged ML Kit’s new GenAI summarisation API into my side-project, SmartWriter. Five minutes later, my phone was generating smart summaries…
Google Just Gave Android Developers Superpowers — Here’s How I’m Using Them | by Jose Garcia | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
If you’ve been following Android dev news lately, you might have noticed something quietly powerful happening behind the scenes: Google has rolled out on-device generative AI APIs as part of ML Kit…
Previewing retain{} API: A New Way to Persist State in Jetpack Compose | by Jaewoong Eum | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
Jetpack Compose has reshaped how we think about UI in Android. With its declarative nature, reactive state model, and composable functions, it has drastically reduced boilerplate and improved clarity…
🚀 From Double Tap Dilemmas to Single Stream Success: Fixing Swipe Refresh & Search in MVVM! | by Subhankar Bag | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
Have you ever battled with mysterious duplicate API calls in your Android app? We certainly have! What seemed like a straightforward MVVM setup turned into a debugging puzzle, revealing how UI-driven…
The Unseen Scaffolding: Why Android Architecture Is Your Most Critical Feature | by Subhankar Bag | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
A practical guide to how Clean Architecture and SOLID principles protect your Android codebase — especially during migrations and feature growth. You’re handed a small feature request: a quick layout…
The Hidden Dangers of AGP Version Upgrades: A Developer’s Nightmare | by Subhankar Bag | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
As Android developers, we’ve all been there. That persistent notification in Android Studio suggesting we upgrade our Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) to the latest version. It seems harmless, even…
🔥 Kotlin object Madness: How My Sealed Interface List Quietly Dropped a Value | by Prashant | Aug, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
If you’re using sealed interface + object in Kotlin and constructing a static listOf(...) from those objects — beware. One of your objects might silently be null— if it wasn’t accessed before the…
Jetpack Compose: Why scrollable() Doesn’t Work as Expected — Use verticalScroll() Instead | ProAndroidDev
Understand why Modifier.scrollable() doesn't scroll your content in Jetpack Compose and how verticalScroll() is the better choice for most UI layouts. Learn with clear examples and best practices.
How to Encrypt Your Room Database in Android Using SQLCipher 🔐 | by Pouya Heydari | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
When building Android apps, we often use Room to store data locally. But have you ever thought about how easy it might be for someone to extract that data if your app gets reverse engineered? Local…
Understanding SideEffects in Jetpack Compose : Logging and Beyond in Compose | by Richa Sharma | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
💬 Leave a comment if you’ve used SideEffect in a unique or interesting way. 👏 Clap if you learned something new about how Compose handles recomposition and side effects and share this blog with…
Exploring the Android Google Home APIs SDK | by Andrew Malitchuk | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
Let’s briefly go over what the SDK can do, how to set it up, how to work with core artifacts, and some known issues. Keep in mind that each feature of this SDK deserves its own article (there’s a lot to cover) — so consider this your Google Home SDK 101.
Understanding Kotlin Coroutines: A Deep Dive into Blocking vs Non-blocking and Concurrent vs Asynchronous Execution | by Gaëlle Minisini | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
If you’ve ever felt confused about when coroutines actually run concurrently versus asynchronously, or why some operations seem to block despite using suspend functions, you're not alone. Today…
Learnings from Using Firebase AI. Building Chat Applications with… | by Tomáš Repčík | Jul, 2025 | ProAndroidDev
It provides the means to use AI models in your application without the need to manage your own AI infrastructure. This is not a tutorial on how to use Firebase AI, but rather my learnings from using…