Issue #752

November 8th, 2026
Articles & Tutorials
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Nacho Carrión recaps Android Dev Summit agentic tooling, agent integrations, and AI-driven testing announcements for mobile developers.
Chris Banes announces Haze 2.1, stabilising Glass effects and adding merging glass containers for Compose.
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Thiago Magalhaes explains Shopify's Reflex architecture, letting agents test native Swift and Kotlin apps headlessly through ViewModel contracts.
Konstantin Tskhovrebov explains multithreading limits in Compose Multiplatform web apps and how to keep frames smooth.
Jaewoong Eum maps Jetpack Compose's compiler, runtime, and UI layers, linking his series, talk, and book.
Arnaud Giuliani introduces Koin's official Claude Code plugin with skills for compile-safe DI, migration, and diagnostics.
Markus Hintersteiner explains how Sentry's Android SDK now profiles on Android 15+ using Perfetto.
Wal outlines Serifu, an Android app translating manga speech bubbles in place with on-device ML Kit.
Yassine Beldi recaps Android Dev Summit 2026, covering Views maintenance mode, Compose adaptive layouts, and AI agent benchmarks.
Nav Singh explores Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2's new onTrue, onFalse, and ifOrNull utilities for cleaner conditional logic.
Mayank Kumar explains Kotlin null safety, covering nullable types, safe calls, the Elvis operator, and risky !! usage.
Ravi Rawal examines how Compose's $changed bit field encodes static arguments to reduce runtime comparisons.
John O'Reilly walks through exposing Confetti conference sessions and bookmarks to AI agents via AppFunctions.
Paresh Mayani explains when Android-first businesses should choose native development over cross-platform, citing device integration and managed fleets.
Libraries & Code
A Compose Multiplatform library that sets status and navigation bar icon colors on Android and iOS.
A Kotlin Multiplatform renderer that brings Google's A2UI agent-to-UI framework to Jetpack Compose on Android, iOS and desktop.
A desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that runs Android emulators and real devices beside your editor, with saved presets.
News
Google's Android team introduces Android Device Hub, a standalone app for managing local and remote devices and emulators.
Google releases over 50 Android Dev Summit sessions on app foundations, intelligent apps, tools, performance, and XR.
Google recaps Jetpack Compose 1.13, Jetpack AppState alpha, Navigation 3 deep links, and new Android skills.
Google announces stable Jetpack XR libraries, emulators, and Engine Hub for Android XR devices.
Google announces Android MCP, on-device ML Kit agents and A2UI Compose renderer for intelligent apps.
Videos & Podcasts
Adrian Blanco shows how to migrate a million-line Android app from Java threads to coroutines.
Firebase shows how to render bespoke Android UIs from Gemini using A2UI and Compose.
Firebase covers October 2026 CLI updates, Admin SDKs, Android in AI Studio, and Test Lab migration.
Philipp Lackner demonstrates a phased AI workflow for designing non-slop app UIs, avoiding common mistakes.
Android Developers covers the October 2026 Google Play policy updates, including Local Network, Manage Contacts, and AppFunctions permissions.