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[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

I just released a new version with better podcast support. ⬇️
#AndroidDev #kotlin #JetpackCompose

https://t.co/AL8NsN3x3M

[Jaewoong Eum @github_skydoves]

Published a new article "Jetpack Compose Mechanisms, Part 2: How the Runtime Remembers and How the UI Becomes Pixels"

https://t.co/JHqYvp8NTf

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🚨 CRITICAL: GitLab flaw (CVSS 10.0) affects 12 years of releases.

CVE-2026-110264 could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on self-managed servers.

Read - https://t.co/frrfCwYlgp

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

If your Android app relies on OkHttp (directly or via Retrofit/Ktor), you might be exposed to recent certificate authority vulnerabilities until platform roots are patched. Here's how to use a custom HostnameVerifier as a quick application-layer workaround: https://t.co/OjrlXVmT5Y #AndroidDev #OkHttp

[AndroidWeekly @androidweekly]

Latest Android Weekly Issue 749 is out!
https://t.co/lPHiEGZ3MR #AndroidDev #Kotlin

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

Big performance improvements in kotlinx.serialization v1.12.0! The new ASCII-specific parser brings Okio/kotlinx-io source decoding much closer to raw string speed, and large string parsing is up to 30% faster! Great news for heavy payload processing on Android: https://t.co/5hhGPPpvhB #Kotlin #AndroidDev

[Arthur Mensch @arthurmensch]

We've just released a comprehensive suite of state-of-the-art voice models https://t.co/Ue1S72c9HW. Voice will be the most important interface to AI systems, and we deploy voice models physically close to reasoning models

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

Managing user-generated content shouldn't complicate your core app architecture. Filestack handles direct-to-cloud uploads, file type validation, and on-the-fly image optimization without bloated backend overhead: https://t.co/vGNJGUdDKk #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose

[Arthur Mensch @arthurmensch]

Should Europe leave frontier AI to the Americans and the Chinese?

The idea has gained ground in Europe. It is a fundamental mistake.
Build or surrender: for now, the choice is still ours.

Full article below. https://t.co/v1biuiXoYe

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

@BhanuNagpure82 This is a Multiplatform release, it's goal is mostly to improve compatibility with other platforms (than Android)

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

Tackling touch event conflicts between Compose and native views on iOS just got a bit cleaner. Compose Multiplatform 1.12.2 introduces new experimental APIs like UIKitInteropProperties for finer control over interaction modes. Dive in here: https://t.co/SQbulfHUot #KotlinMultiplatform #JetpackCompose #Kotlin #AndroidDev

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

Want your AI coding assistant to stop generating unnecessary recompositions? Android’s new jetpack-compose-performance skill gives LLMs explicit guidelines on stability, phases, and rendering optimization.
Update your Android CLI:
$ android skills update

https://t.co/0GXzdDNDOy
#AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #Kotlin

[John O'Reilly @joreilly]

Moving from SKIE to Swift export in a Kotlin Multiplatform project https://t.co/R64znvAsYF

Swift export is still in alpha and continues to evolve so some aspects of this might change....but cool to see progress and looks like Kotlin 2.5.0 will be big release for the technology!

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

Kotlin 2.4.21 is out! 🚀
If you’ve been running into edge-case bugs with Composable singletons in generic functions or cross-module getter/setter calls, this patch delivers critical Compose compiler fixes alongside K2 Analysis API polish.
Full changelog:
https://t.co/NXHmOOjafw
#Kotlin #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

If you run Android workflows in CI or terminal scripts, the latest Android CLI updates fix major pain points: guaranteed non-zero exit codes on command failures, headless emulator support (--headless), and zero-copy delta APK patching for faster deploys.
https://t.co/Vyv21M9k9u
#AndroidDev #MobileDev #AndroidCLI

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

With Mistral Large 4 dropping, I really want to see how it performs on Android Bench! 🤖📱
Android Bench evaluates models on real-world Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and app architecture PRs. Seeing a top-tier open-weight MoE model tackle these complex Android dev tasks would be huge.

🔗 https://t.co/7ndLrRikCd

#AndroidDev #AndroidBench #MistralAI

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

Android CLI is becoming essential for terminal-first & AI agent workflows (Cursor, Claude Code, Devin, etc.). Latest releases add --no-idle layout dumps, Canny edge detection tuning for screen annotations, and CLI-driven Compose preview rendering.
🔗 https://t.co/Vyv21M8MjW
#AndroidDev #Kotlin #AndroidStudio

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Four days in nature with no phones improved creative problem-solving by 50%.

Your next idea is outside.

[Chandu Thota @ChanduThota]

We are making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.

You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

Kotlin is introducing Companion Extensions, allowing us to attach factory methods and static-like helpers directly to classes we don’t own (including Android SDK & Java types). Say goodbye to cluttering codebases with *Utils classes!
🔗 https://t.co/n1Yl4SM226
#AndroidDev #Kotlin

[Android Developer News @AndroidDev_News]

@nielsmdt99 That's a pretty good tool for #AndroidDev to allow your agent to test features!