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

🎉 Big win for KMP devs! The latest Android Studio Narwhal now supports Compose Preview for KMP projects! 🚀 This makes UI development smoother! 🎨 developer.android.com/studio/preview #AndroidStudio #JetpackCompose #KotlinMultiplatform #ComposeMultiplatform #DevTools #Kotlin #AndroidDev #iOSDev

⚡️ From 8 minutes down to 0.5ms: Compose Hot Reload 1.0.0-alpha03 was released with a re-implementation of its core 'dirty resolution algorithm': blog.sellmair.io/being-quick-... Enjoy 🍻 github.com/JetBrains/co...

Junie is such a huge help for quickly getting an implementation of e.g. an API client. For a video, I was implementing smart light control with MCP, and I was able to delegate the REST client entirely to our agent. Fewer mechanical tasks, more focus on the things that matter 🚀 youtu.be/jwevCa96Z4Q

🎉 🎇 First 'alpha01' artifacts for Compose Hot Reload are available on Maven Central! Enjoy! 🥳 github.com/JetBrains/co...

✨ New article out now! Learn how to animate mesh gradients in #JetpackCompose www.sinasamaki.com/mesh-gradients-in-jetpack-compose/

🎊 Kotlin 1.0 was released 9 years ago! We’re sharing our love for the amazing Kotlin community this Valentine’s Day. 💜 Thank you for your passion, dedication, and belief in the language. What’s something you’ve recently loved about coding in Kotlin? Tell us your story!

I just changed my handle to @schattauer.dev using the following tutorial. This was actually pretty easy! Thank you @emilyliu.me

This is a good decision! Fleet was good, but nowhere nearly as powerful as IntelliJ/Android Studio. Now I just want to see JetBrains AI within Android Studio :)

Another one - Let's keep them coming and make Compose Multiplatform our future!

All patches required for Compose Hot Reload landed in Kotlin/Compose Compiler release branches 🎉 No custom Kotlin version is needed for Hot Reload anymore 🥳 github.com/JetBrains/co...

Android 16 will have some big changes around restricting orientation and aspect ratio by respecting the user's preferred orientation in more cases. Apps can no longer rely on assuming they have a specific aspect ratio to render in. For more details: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/orie...

This is so predictable but companies won't think three steps ahead. I am glad to work for a company where this isn't enforced.

I got Heron compiling for iOS on the iPad and I still can't believe the value prop of compose multiplatform. I was able to build an offline-first multiplatform app in 4 weeks! Frame rate isn't great, and I don't know if iOS insets for the status and nav bars are supported, but my mind is blown.

I wish everyone, regardless of timezone, a happy new year :)

iOS swipe-to-go-back is here, sweet! :)

Uuuh!! I can't wait to have this stable :)

🎇 Compose Hot Reload experiments are slowly finishing up! I will propose to start the first stabilization phase in January. My colleagues at JetBrains have many cool ideas on how to integrate the tech into our tooling ♥️ Try it out! Feedback welcome 🤗 github.com/JetBrains/co...

Just updated my compose multiplatform showcase repository, for native map and video UIs, using @touchlab.co 's compose swift bridge. Compose multiplatform is getting better and better, I love seeing everything evolve!

With every new IDE, the first thing I do nowadays is to bind a macro formatting my current file and such whenever I hit Cmd+S. I can't be the only one that still hammers this non stop due to earlier days?

www.androiddev.quest A pretty neat idea for all android developers out there. It's a puzzle game that requires android dev tools. Well done to the dev Richard Zadorozny.

Finally had time to update my compose multiplatform demo project to compose multiplatform 1.7.1 and also added a gif showing what to expect.

🦋 Hello world 🦋

I soon have to update my project to use Touchlabs new way of adding iOS views to compose multiplatform.

Bluesky is catching more and more traction. I love it and hope I can soon get rid of Twitter!