Rebecca Franks

We've just released a new official Android skill that can be used to statically analyse your #JetpackCompose code for performance improvements. ⚡️ We've seen some good results running it internally - give it a try and let us know any feedback! ✌️ github.com/android/skil...

If you are looking to advance your AI usage with Android: My #1 tip is to install the Android CLI. The latest feature is Device Streaming - allowing to connect to remote Android devices. Learn more tips from @anomiss.bsky.social in the latest post: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/10/andr...

14 Sept

Have you (like me 🫣) misunderstood the concept of a backwards-write in Compose? Well we have some new content on this topic! What is a backwards write? Its when state is modified in a later phase or downstream scope than where it was originally read from.

developer.android.comBackwards Write | Jetpack Compose | Android DevelopersCovering the concept of backwards writes in Jetpack Compose, what a consequence of backwards writes are, and how to avoid them.

14 Sept

What can it cause? Unexpected layout flashing, frame drops or infinite loops 🫳🏻📸🔂 - nobody wants that 🙂‍↔️ For example - writing to a state in layout modifier, that’s read in earlier composition, can cause this kind of problem. Check the new documentation for more developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...

27 Aug

We've heard you wanted to be able to compare between different #JetpackCompose BOM versions - you can now do so easily here: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c... What else do you want from our developer documentation? 👀

25 Aug

Shape shifting your UI to different devices got you puzzled? 🧩 🤔 Did you know that developer.android.com also contains loads of design guidelines to learn from? 🫨 If you are struggling to figure your designs out, we've gotcha covered! ✨ developer.android.com/design/ui/ga...

24 Aug

👀 Compose 1.13.0-alpha01 introduces a new CapturedAnimatedVisibility composable: It instantly disposes child content on exit, animating a static GraphicsLayer snapshot instead of keeping UI nodes alive. Our testing has shown: ⚡ ~8% faster exits 📉 ~7% fewer recompositions

developer.android.comCapturedAnimatedVisibility | API reference | Android DevelopersCapturedAnimatedVisibility animates the appearance and disappearance of its content as visible changes.

24 Aug

Standard AnimatedVisibility can cause crashes during item deletion because it continues to attempt composition on the removed item, leading to bugs when the underlying data is no longer available 😢 Check out the reference documentation here: developer.android.com/reference/ko...

android-developers.googleblog.comWhat's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 releaseNews and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

13 Aug

Jetpack Compose 1.12 has been released! So many new goodies to look at: 🌅 Mesh Gradient support - along with support inside Android Studio for editing ✌🏻 Interactive Two-Stage Transitions 💬 Many text features such as editable text formatting android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/jetp...

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Mark Murphy

@commonsware.com

4 Aug

OK, I published jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #325! Compose 1.0 five-year anniversary! 1.12.0 RC! Memory leaks! Remote Compose for debugging! And... @aditlal.dev has been through the desert with a state with no name?!? jetc.dev/issues/325 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

30 July

This might be my sign to open my own bakery. The production team took this photo and I'm seriously considering a career switch now because what do you mean 🤩 Oh yeah we did a #JetpackCompose live stream with it in the background, you can watch that here 😁 www.youtube.com/live/Np7Rsqt...

youtube.comJetpack Compose 5th-Anniversary: Livestream Birthday Party 🎈Jetpack Compose is 5! 🎂 To celebrate this major milestone, we’re looking back at the journey of Jetpack Compose - from its initial internal prototype days in 2017, announcing the first stable…

30 July

And we are now live! 📺 Join us now to celebrate the evolution of #JetpackCompose, and learn whats in the baking in the kitchen 👀 Ask your questions for the team in the live chat 💬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np7R...

30 July

ITS TODAY!!! 🎂 Jetpack Compose 1.0 is turning 5, and we’re throwing a livestream birthday bash to celebrate! Join us as we look back at how Compose completely changed the Android UI game and answer your questions live. 🗓 When: July 30 @ 13:00 UTC / 6 AM PT 📺 Where: goo.gle/4fxMBLj

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Romain Guy

@romainguy.dev

21 July

I published vibrance-0.1.0 on Maven, now with support for Compose for Desktop (JVM). The APIs let you mix colors yourself, or draw gradients as modifiers or Compose brushes. Next steps: refine the model training to improve some color transitions, better alpha support. github.com/romainguy/vi...

21 July

We might really be doing this documentary though 👀

17 July

Ever looked at a complex animation and thought, "There is no way I can build that"? 🤯 With any new animation in #JetpackCompose, I ask myself these three questions: 1️⃣ WHAT properties are being changed in this? 2️⃣ WHEN does it animate? 3️⃣ HOW should it animate? youtu.be/HNSKJIQtb4c?...

29 May

Official mesh gradient support #JetpackCompose is coming soon👀 available in Compose 1.12 alphas at the moment! what other graphical effects do you want?

21 May

Google IO 2026 is a wrap! 🥳 Our #JetpackCompose talk is now available online! 😎 Learn all about how to Build custom design systems with Jetpack Compose's new Styles API io.google/2026/explore...

github.comGitHub - android/skillsContribute to android/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

13 May

A few weeks ago we released Android Skills, a repository of curated agent skills for Android development best practices. 👩🏻‍🍳 This library bundles official docs and has a great set to start with! github.com/android/skills

github.comGitHub - chrisbanes/skills: Skills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android developmentSkills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android development - chrisbanes/skills

13 May

In the Compose team, we'd love to know what skills you'd like to see added to the set?

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Chris Banes

@chrisbanes.me

12 May

🤖 I've just open-sourced a new set of skills, covering Kotlin, Compose and Android development. Very early days, but it covers a lot of things which crop up in code review regularly. github.com/chrisbanes/s...

23 Apr

#JetpackCompose version 1.11 has landed! So many new APIs to try out along with some important changes. We've also detailed 4 (!) new large Experimental APls that we are actively looking for feedback on: 💅🏻 Styles! 🚥 Grid 💪🏻 FlexBox 🎞️ MediaQuery android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/jetp...

5 Mar

Loved this inspirational example of building out motion blurring in #JetpackCompose from @piotr_prus 💓 Sometimes the smallest of effects can make your app just feel *that* much more fun! proandroiddev.com/motion-blur-...

4 Mar

My fav new feature in the latest Android release is "Connected Displays".🖥️ You are able to plug in your phone to a big screen, and benefit from all the extra space that the screen provides 🤯 This means you should *really* ensure your app works on diff screen sizes.

android-developers.googleblog.comAndroid devices extend seamlessly to connected displaysNews and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

4 Mar

There are plenty of different tools to help you get started with this in #JetpackCompose, check out this article from Francesco to get started! android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/andr...

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Mark Murphy

@commonsware.com

24 Feb

Hey, I just mailed out jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #303! @brwngrldev.bsky.social on reducing development friction! Line graphs! CMP IDE plugin! Syntax highlighting! And... can we *finally* get rid of ViewModel?!? jetc.dev/issues/303 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev

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Simona Milanovic

@anomiss.bsky.social

1 Feb

Come and chat with us on Feb 5th 😊 we'll (try to) answer your questions about Gemini in Android Studio, and share some tips & tricks 👩‍🔬 With @josealcerreca.bsky.social, @astamato.bsky.social, @nosuid.bsky.social, Joe Birch and a few more! Join in → goo.gle/3O7dfk0

16 Jan

👀 Want to see a preview of what's coming up in #JetpackCompose? We heard you that debugging shared elements is tricky. In 1.11.0-alpha03, a new composable LookaheadAnimationVisualDebugging was added. Wrap your SharedTransitionLayout to add visual cues to track down those hard to debug issues. 🐛⤵️

11 Dec 2025

#JetpackCompose executes your code in different phases, which causes some parts of the @Composable function to be executed separately from each other. Crashes in these phases can result in stack traces that are hard to decipher, making it difficult to pinpoint the exact line of code that crashed 💥

@donaldturner.bsky.social

11 Dec 2025

In #JetpackCompose version 1.10, you can set the diagnostic stack trace mode that collects source information even if your app has proguard applied. Check out the details here for more info on prerequisites, and the various modes available to you: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...

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Don Turner

youtube.comNavigation 3 #AskAndroid | Spotlight WeekYouTube video by Android Developers

Quick reminder that the Nav3 engineering team will be live in 1 hour answering questions. Ask anything you like about Nav3 using #AskAndroid. Livestream is here: www.youtube.com/live/JsugLEM...

Another new feature in Compose 1.10 is the new: Modifier.scrollableArea() 📜 Think of it like this: Modifier.scrollable() tells you how the pointer moved, while Modifier.scrollableArea() translates that pointer movement into how the content should move within a typical scrollable view.

This modifier should be used when verticalScroll/horizontalScroll is not enough for your use case, but if you'd like more defaults to be handled above the lower level scrollable modifier. This modifier sits nicely in-between these two existing options for you. developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...

youtube.comBoost Android app performance with the R8 optimizer | Spotlight WeekYouTube video by Android Developers

If you want to reduce your ANR rate... enable R8! 🥁 Honestly the numbers from Reddit here are wildly impressive, with 30% less ANRs, 40% faster app startup and frame rate improvement of 25% 😱 Checkout the video from @keyboardsurfer.dev to learn more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqO2...

android-developers.googleblog.comWhat's new in the Jetpack Compose December '25 releaseNews and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

4 Dec 2025

Compose 1.10 was released yesterday! 🔟 It includes some nice new features: 🧞‍♀️ Support for dynamic shared elements 👰🏻‍♀️ New Enter/Exit Transitions: unveilIn / veilOut ⏭️ Modifier.skipToLookaheadPosition() 📦 New retain APIs influenced by Circuit android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/what...

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Márton Braun

@zsmb.co

3 Dec 2025

A great write-up from Perk about how they adopted Compose Multiplatform! Cool to see this from an app that I actually use regularly.

builders.travelperk.comCompose Multiplatform at Perk: A Pragmatic Look at Our Journey So FarReducing duplication and bringing our teams closer together

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Romain Guy

@romainguy.dev

29 Nov 2025

New blog post on how to render beautiful soft shadows projected by the user's finger with Jetpack Compose. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/f...

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Ben Weiss

@keyboardsurfer.dev

20 Nov 2025

Customizing the cache window lets you prefetch content on Jetpack Compose LazyLayouts. Combining it with pausable composition and text prefetching is a winning combination.

android-developers.googleblog.comDeeper Performance ConsiderationsNews and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Maria Neumayer

@marianeum.bsky.social

20 Nov 2025

Don't ignore this tip! We've switched to using the optimized proguard file & shrinking resources in our latest release and have seen a massive drop in all performance related metrics, with slow app launch metrics dropping >30%. All from a 5 minute code change!

Ben Weiss@keyboardsurfer.dev

Run this and let me know the output: `grep "dontoptimize" app/build/outputs/mapping/release/configuration.txt` In case it's not empty, you definitely should watch this youtu.be/QqO2jZ-NZko?...

youtu.beBoost Android app performance with the R8 optimizer | Spotlight WeekYouTube video by Android Developers

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Paul Kinlan

@paul.kinlan.me

14 Oct 2025

Dead framework theory aifoc.us/dead-framewo...

aifoc.usdead framework theoryThese are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web. In October last year I wrote “will developers care about f...

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Lars Lofgren

@larslofgren.bsky.social

8 Oct 2025

A Reddit mod has spent years tearing down the coding bootcamp space, relentlessly attacking the leading bootcamp: Codesmith. This is, by far, the most fucked up thing I've seen on Reddit: larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...

larslofgren.comThe Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit ModeratorLet’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...

developer.android.comIcons | Jetpack Compose | Android Developers

26 Sept 2025

📢 The androidx.compose.material.icons library is no longer recommended for displaying Material Icons in Compose. We have stopped publishing updates to this library & it has been removed from the latest Material 3 library release, you can still manually reference it if you cannot migrate.

💔 Why are we not recommending the library anymore? The icons library (“Material Icons”) have been superseded by the newer look of Material Symbols & we’ve seen that the library can increase the build time of your apps significantly. More info: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...

issuetracker.google.comGoogle Issue Tracker

26 Sept 2025

Please leave any feedback or product requests (or +1) this bug to receive updates on if you'd like to see a new library for Material Symbols: issuetracker.google.com/447545316

⤵️ Instead, we recommend downloading a Vector Drawable XML file from the Android tab of fonts.google.com/icons to get access to the latest styled icons: Material Symbols.

fonts.google.comMaterial Symbols and Icons - Google FontsMaterial Symbols are our newest icons consolidating over 2,500 glyphs in a single font file with a wide range of design variants.

youtube.comHow Androidify uses Firebase AI Logic to turn you into an Android | Firebase After Hours #17Ever wonder how AI can transform a simple selfie into a unique Android character? In this episode of Firebase After Hours, we pull back the curtain on the "A...

24 Sept 2025

Thanks for having me on stream @peterfriese.dev @nohe.dev ❤️🧡

Peter Friese@peterfriese.dev

Rebecca is walking us through how she and her team used Firebase AI Logic and a bunch of other AI tools to implement the Androidify app. Really impressive, especially the prompts they use! youtube.com/live/F15gKQ...

6 Sept 2025

My weekend in pictures, at this point I'm just dressing to see the bot results #androidify

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Joseph R. Lewis 周呂毅

@sanbeiji.com

5 Sept 2025

Androidify is @riggaroo.dev's new app for Android that uses Gemini to create your own version of the Android bot. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Attached mine here, created from a recent orchestra selfie. 🎻😀 Android devs: learn more & get the code here! d.android.com/ai/samples #androiddev

3 Sept 2025

We launched the Androidify app on Google Play! Download it now, and create your very own custom Android bot ❤️ I've had loads of fun creating and testing the app - now you can too! play.google.com/store/apps/d... #Androidify