Richard Schattauer

I am thrilled to announce that our Gradle transitive dependency check plugin is open-sourced! 🎉 It prevents version surprises in builds. Happy to give back to the community and that this is now available for everyone! 🙂

scrcpy 5.0 now supports hardware decoding! Better performance, lower CPU usage, less power consumption ⚡ github.com/Genymobile/s...

Haze 2.0 is here, and it's a big one! 🎉 For Compose Multiplatform: 🫧 Glass with refraction & lighting ⚡ Faster blur 🎛️ Adaptive rendering quality 🎨 Reusable styles 🛠️ Build your own effects chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-2...

Compose now has progressive blur. Do you still need Haze? chrisbanes.me/posts/compos...

“No AI, no AI companies, AI-based products, or forced AI usage for development.” In his new interview, Jake Wharton explains why this principle matters to him, and what concerns him about the way AI is changing software development 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WjPdgOK-68

Super sympathetic to Sonatype's situation, hosting isn't free. But announcing this with paltry limits and no public pricing options (a sales contact ain't it) is bad for everyone and going to be a major disruption to the JVM and Kotlin ecosystems. central.sonatype.org/publish/mave...

Want your own little Kodee figurine? Well, you can now 3D print one, thanks to a creator in our community:

#KotlinConf26 was an absolute blast! 💜 ​So incredibly grateful to be part of such a welcoming community. Left with a ton of inspiration and merchandise. 😅 I can't wait for the next one! ​Huge thanks to @kotlinconf.com and everyone who made it special.

Android is now Compose First, we recommend you build all Android UI with Compose and `android.widget` is now in maintenance mode. #GoogleIO #AndroidDev android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/andr...

scrcpy 4.0 is out 🚀 Try the new flex display feature (and more): github.com/Genymobile/s...

💠 Haze 2.0-alpha01 is out! This is a big release, splitting Haze up into layers, with the goal of enabling pluggable visual effects. Let me know what you think! chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-2...

#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...

⏳ 30 Days to KotlinConf’26! Kodee is waiting for you! 💜 https://kotlinconf.com/

Today we're releasing two essential resources for Android devs: Official Android skills and Android CLI! 📑 Android Skills (github.com/android/skills) fill gaps when state-of-the-art models don't have enough training data. We're focusing on hard migrations, niche APIs, performance, etc.

Claude Opus 4.7 just got released. The security guardrails better hold. :) www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Recently I drove my daughter up a snowy mountain when the tires started spinning. Had to show zero fear so she stays calm. Turns out that's the same job leading a team through the AI shift.

It is sadly true - androidx ktx libraries have been killed today and it is all Jake Wharton's doing. Details here: jakewharton.com/an-update-on... #androidx #androiddev

Claude Code’s source code leaked last night. Given the speed and sheer volume of forks and spin-offs already popping up, agentic harnesses are about to surge really hard. It’s crazy out there and I actually love to see it 😈 github.com/chatgptproje...

Compose Hot..Swan is finally here! 🦢 Compose HotSwan enables Compose Hot Reload in real Android devices, instant UI updates on your running Android app, with state preserved. No rebuilds, no relaunching, no navigating back to the same screen again. hotswan.dev

Today I’m open-sourcing Dejavu! Testing UI performance in Jetpack Compose is frustrating. We profile and watch tools, yet regressions still creep in. I built Dejavu to make recomposition behavior something you can actually test.

Junie CLI, the LLM-agnostic coding agent, is now in Beta! Junie will follow you wherever you’re working: in the terminal, your IDE, or CI/CD workflows. With BYOK pricing, real-time prompting, and next-task prediction, Junie is ready for you to try. https://jb.gg/ecer6x

There is one place where an AI-related layoff might be justified. Working with AI requires skills that some developers seem unwilling or unable to acquire. Coding alone, no matter how good you are, is no longer sufficient. You need to understand systems thinking and software architecture. 9/11

What happens to Square / Block Android OSS projects post layoffs? Let's start with some context OSS at Square is mostly a happy accident. Jack hired Bob, who's job was attracking world class engineers, and he did that through talks & OSS.

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Your builds and remixes have brought us to the finish line. 🏁 Because of your collective effort, the #GoogleIO dates are unlocked. Join us May 19-20, 2026. 🗓️ Register today → goo.gle/io2026reg-6

Koin now has a native Kotlin Compiler Plugin ✨ - Compile-time auto-wiring - DSL + Annotations - KMP & Compose Multiplatform ready - No KSP needed Same simplicity, compile-time power. #Kotlin #Koin #AndroidDev

How it started / How it's going

👀 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. 🐛⤵️

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 is out! 🎉 What’s new: ✨ Common @​Preview annotation 🧭 Support for Navigation 3 on non-Android targets 🔥 Stable and bundled Compose Hot Reload Learn more: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2026/01/compose-multiplatform-1-10-0/

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...

Just purchased a ticket for me and for two of my colleagues!

Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉 Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...

Yes, annoy everyone with warning messages, I would be fine with that, but keep the possibility to sideload whatever I desire within my own hands! Good move! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/andr...

I'm happy to share that I published a new open-source library, Compose Stability Analyzer! This is a plugin that provides real-time stability analysis for Jetpack Compose functions in Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA. github.com/skydoves/com...

Working on a plugin that provides real-time stability analysis for Jetpack Compose functions in Android Studio.

🎉 JUnit 6.0 is here, and it brings even deeper Kotlin support! Now, you get: ✨ Suspend and cancellation support ✨ Kotlin 2.2 baseline ✨ Improved nullability annotations ✨ Convenient UX with contracts Check out the full release notes 👉 kotl.in/b8wncm?utm_c...

There's no good reason why people distributing apps outside the Play Store should need to provide their personal data to Google. This is just taking Android into the horrible world of dev accounts and notarization that Apple enforces.

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Stop calling AI a "junior engineer" blog.mmckenna.me/stop-calling...

KotlinConf 2026 → MUNICH 🇩🇪 Super Early Bird tickets just dropped! The world’s biggest Kotlin event. A new city. The best price. 🎟️ Get your Super Early Bird ticket: kotl.in/conf26-tickets

Official KMP support for Firebase is requested a lot whenever we talk to developers. If you want to let the team at Google know, please vote for and add a comment on this issue explaining why you want to see this: firebase.uservoice.c...

Did you know... Android Studio has introduced resizable previews for Compose previews? Allowing you to test your layouts across the spectrum of device sizes easily inside Android Studio. 💻 developer.android.com/studio/previ...

Very cool to hear at the #KotlinConf closing panel today that a KMP version of the Firebase library is being worked on this summer (as part of Google Summer of Code program)!

🎉 The new Kotlin Multiplatform for IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio! ✨ Integrated New Project wizard 🔍 Preflight checks 🔧 Multiplatform run configurations 🧭 Cross-language support 🎨 Compose Multiplatform support 🔥 Compose Hot Reload Learn more blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

🔥 Compose Multiplatform for iOS is Stable and Production-Ready! 🔥 Build mobile apps faster with shared UI code, full control over native experiences, and the confidence to ship at scale. Explore all the updates in Compose Multiplatform 1.8.0: 👇 blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

AI doesn’t eliminate technical debt. It actually multiplies it, faster than ever. The best devs today aren’t the ones who can write the most clever code, but the ones who know which code to trust, which abstraction to keep, and which AI suggestion to ignore 🧵

Make sense and I have never thought about that possibility.

I have been using Room for KMP for some time now and raised some issues. It's such a pleasure that Android libraries are moving to KMP and getting stable! Love it, keep up the amazing work.

Just got an early access invite to @jetbrains.com's Junie. It's so interesting to play around with the next step into our future already. Junie easily helps to kickstart some tasks/projects but you still need a lot of deeper knowledge to empower Junie to get where you want it to go. Looking forward