2025
NOVEMBER 14, 2025
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🧾 Stop GPL surprises with Licensee ⚖️ ⚡ Gradle config speed rule 🤯 Compose effects order puzzle 🧠 AI vs git bisect
OCTOBER 30, 2025
💌 In today’s Dispatch: Closing my Airbnb chapter ✨ Swift on Android 🤯 Timezones are complicated ⌛️ Touch me not Composables 👉
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🔥 We meet the team behind Firebender 🏋🏻 Easiest one-line win of the year 🤏 Composable scoped View Model's and 🌈 performant way to modify background color
AUGUST 24, 2025
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 🛼 2D Scrolling 🎣 Prefetching Lists 🔎 Better Compose Debugging & 🏗️ Architecting Persistent UI Elements
JULY 22, 2025
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 💰 Selling Android apps 🛠️ Metro DI takes the crown, 🚨 AndroidView anti‐pattern exposed & 🔐 Telegram’s hash‐coded file bans
JUNE 22, 2025
💌 In today’s Dispatch: 📸 Screenshot testing pro-tips ✨ Native shadows in Compose, 🤖 Kotlin powering AI SDKs, 📱 Android 16 adaptivity shift & ⚡️ 6× faster transforms
MAY 18, 2025
💌 In today's Dispatch: 🗑️ Google Play's 47 % app-purge drama, 🛠️ Amazon's shiny new KMP 'App Platform', 🎞️ ADB slow-mo frame-timing captures, 🎨 the theme bug that steals your Column's color, 🤣 'Soft Earnings' and 📊 @Preview-free code-coverage magic.
MAY 6, 2025
In today's issue, we talk about the 💸 strange hiring market and salaries, 💣 latest BOM drop, 📈 sorting UUIDs and obviously...AI 👂
APRIL 19, 2025
In today's issue, we talk about 🧐 cheating during interviews, 💸 fully transparent salaries, 🪄 Google's big agentic bet, 🕵🏻♂️ committing a Kotlin crime and 🫨 jittery text animations
APRIL 3, 2025
In today's issue, we talk about 🥶 chilly mobile hiring trends, the best Kotlin speaking LLMs 🗣️, another project in the Google graveyard 🪦, shadcn/ui for Android ✨ and learn how to trust time ⏰
MARCH 12, 2025
In today's issue, we talk about 🐦🔥 Swift on Android, learn some mind-boggling facts about naming variables, discuss my recent chat with Kaushik Gopal, and explore how to provide the entire codebase to an LLM.
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
In today's issue, we talk to some Android experts about their hot-takes, predictions, wishes, and advice on how they expect the Android ecosystem to change—and how developers should prepare for that future.
JANUARY 18, 2025
🤯 some mind bending facts about SQLite, "Monotone Cubic Hermite Spline" and buttery smooth animations, a game to improve our Compose knowledge and why return types in Kotlin can be interesting 🤨
2024
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
🔥 JetBrains' project to bring true hot reload to Compose, share a tip to improve screenshot test reliability using a new CompositionLocal, explore situations when onDispose doesn't get called, and bid farewell to Picasso 👨🏻🎨
OCTOBER 30, 2024
💰 New & creative vesting schedules in tech, an amazing 10 year old engineer, a public service announcement and why onGloballyPositioned is feared
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
🦃 The Turkey that broke your code, advice from Saket Narayan, some personal wins, and strategy for safeguarding composables
AUGUST 6, 2024
😞 The decline of mobile dev, Storybook like tool from JetBrains, the badass developer of SQLite and meeting Annyce Davis
JULY 20, 2024
🔤 Learn about Zach Klippenstein, the Android connection to Wordle, creating presentations using Compose, running Android Studio on Android and @ComposableTarget
JUNE 26, 2024
💪🏻 Power Asserts, XML in Compose, Compose UI previews on web & Airbnb's new screen architecture
JUNE 3, 2024
🛜 "Server" Composabes, new graphicsLayer API, first-party visibility tracking, and debouncing state updates
MAY 20, 2024
🍨 Inside scoop from Google I/O, interesting updates from the event & a tip to using Gemini in Android Studio without compromising sensitive IP
MAY 9, 2024
🚀 Code structure optimizations, Android memes, New Shared Element Transition APIs, Debugging Compose State & More!