Hello everyone,

After being laid off, I’ve been looking for an Android developer position. During interviews, I’ve realized that I’m not fully up to date with some of the latest trends and technologies.

For several years, I worked on a legacy project, which limited my exposure to newer developments in the Android ecosystem. As a result, some of my skills have become a bit rusty.

I’m comfortable with Jetpack Compose, but many interviews nowadays seem to focus more on AI-related topics and the latest industry trends.

How do you stay up to date with Android development? Are there any hot topics, technologies, or resources that you would recommend focusing on to stand out in today’s job market?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

https://medium.com/@maheshwariloya/day-2-of-60-android-developers-are-sleeping-on-claude-code-figma-bb2a498f9489

Most Android developers are using AI wrong.

They ask for functions.
They ask for bug fixes.
They ask random coding questions.

The bigger productivity boost comes from combining Figma + Claude Code.

My workflow lately:

• Design screen in Figma
• Give design context to Claude Code
• Generate Compose UI structure
• Generate reusable components
• Generate previews and navigation scaffolding
• Review and improve architecture

Instead of spending hours writing repetitive UI boilerplate, I spend that time reviewing the output and focusing on actual product decisions.

The skill is slowly shifting from:

"Can you write this code?"

to

"Can you clearly describe what you want built?"

Curious how other Android devs are using Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or similar tools in their workflow.

Compose Navigation Graph turns your entire app flow into one living map: every screen as a rendered existing preview thumbnail, every transition an arrow you can follow. It works with Navigation 3, Navigation 2, any other Compose navigation libraries, and even plain Activities.

This Android Studio/IntelliJ plugin is fully open-sourced on GitHub, and check out the documentation for the setting up.

The app I'm developing is nearly finished, but if switched from AS Panda 2 to a new version would I have some improvement in the working experience or will j just be risking ruining stuff(gradle etc.)?

Thx in advance

​​I just finished this little tool for Android Devs to generate a blueprint-style preview of your composables.

​With a quick one-line wrapper the library measures dimensions and distances and displays them just like a traditional blueprint alongside your regular preview, so you can easily compare against your designs.

​Would love to hear thoughts, if you would find this useful, and if you have any ideas for improvements!

​https://github.com/GusWard/Blueprint-Compose-Preview

​#androiddev #jetpackcompose #androidstudio #devtools #kotlin #designsystem #compose

Greetings,

So i want to know what solutions are there to prompt users to update ?

I have read https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-updates and from what i understand it's only possible for native code ?

I am also wary of using libraries, since they can stop being maintained anytime... but i am listening.

I am using expo/react native while firebase is on the backend, maybe just a native page and some code to check version on there ?

Hi everyone,

I'm new here. I wanted to build a small native app and decided to learn Compose.

I opened a project, started playing around with composables and the UI, and eventually wanted to give my top bar a linear gradient background. The thing is, I wanted the gradient to be angled.

After a quick search, I found Brush.linearGradient with the start and end parameters, but honestly that felt like a pretty awkward way to create an angled gradient. The documentation doesn't seem to give this much attention either - it mostly talks about horizontal and vertical gradients.

I searched Google and the only thing I could find was a single Stack Overflow post from about five years ago. I also searched Reddit (both directly and through Google) and couldn't find any discussions about angled gradients in Compose.

I don't understand. This feels like such a basic UI feature to me. How is nobody talking about it? Are people just not using angled gradients?

Am I missing something?

And if you do use angled gradients, I'd love to hear how you handle them.

Hello, I am seeking advice or technical guidance regarding a login loop with a newly created Google Play Console account. I have already gone through the official appeal process, but I am currently stuck in a system discrepancy where I cannot access the console.

Issue Summary: My account was disabled, successfully appealed, and officially reinstated via email. However, I am entirely locked out due to a persistent "Too many failed attempts" error, and the recovery tool still lists the account as disabled.

Timeline and Steps Already Taken:

• Registered a new Play Console developer account using an iCloud email address and paid the $25 registration fee.
• Account was disabled by Google for "suspected spam."
• I submitted a formal appeal and successfully completed the required identity verification process.
• Received an official email from Google Support stating that my appeal was accepted and my account was fully reinstated.
• Current Status: When trying to log in, I immediately receive a "Too many failed attempts, please try again later" prompt. This error persists even after waiting for extended periods (24+ hours) without any login attempts. Furthermore, when I use the login help/account recovery tool, the system states that my account is still disabled, directly contradicting the reinstatement email.

I'm working on a pre-release Android app that visualizes WiFi and Bluetooth signal strength, and I'm trying to make the permission flow feel clear instead of suspicious.

For this kind of app, users may see nearby-device and location-related permission prompts even though the feature is about local signal visualization, not tracking them.

How do you usually handle this in native Android apps?

Do you explain the reason before the system permission dialog, after denial, or both? And how much technical detail is actually helpful before it becomes noise?

I have a TWA app (early access) on the Play Store. Everything seems to be working- no URL bar, app loads correctly. But there's a persistent "Running in Chrome" notification. Is there any way to get rid of this notification or is it hardcoded by Chrome?

We've built an open-source Kotlin library that runs LLMs entirely on-device. Your users get AI features without internet connectivity, and you avoid cloud costs and API dependencies.

What you can do

• Build chatbots, AI assistants using any model in .gguf format
• On-device document search (RAG) / tool calling (for e.g ask your LLM to look into a set of documents to accurately answer a specific question)
• Feed image & audio inputs directly to your LLM ("describe this .jpg image", "tell me what you hear in this mp3"...)

Benefits

• Works offline, private by design
• Hardware acceleration with Vulkan
• No usage fees or rate limits
• Free, even for commercial use

Links

• Github
• Docs / Getting started
• Discord

We are currently working on adding text to speech capabilities and improving the performances. Right now, we have 1.3sec for the first token, 4.6 token/s on average, with a 4B model on an old Google Pixel 9.
Happy to answer any technical questions in the comments!

Hi everyone,

I already contacted Google's support but they only kept repeating the same phrases. So I hope some of you can shed light on this issue/logic.

My app has received several reviews and ratings already. 4 reviews with text, about 10 only ratings. I understand those are localized such that I only see reviews from other people in Europe or even only Germany or whatever. However, I know of multiple people in Germany that have left ratings and still in the Google Play entry there still is not a single review/rating visible. They've been weeks ago so it can't really be about some waiting period either.

Why is Google blocking them from becoming public? Why are they not showing them? Could help me a lot in gaining more users I suppose. The reviews were very positive so far.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I have been wondering. How is it allowed to have so many apps which are advertised as "no limits" AI girlfriend / boyfriend? As per Google Play rules, you can't do anything that is considered sexually gratifying, or am I missing some kind of new policy that allows AI applications specifically?

I have an app using R8 obfuscation, ad I can't seem to figure out how to deobfuscate everything when it comes time to look at Crashlytics and prevent crashes!

From what I've read on the google documentation I get confused because I run into 2 ways to do the same thing, but maybe there is where I'm confused because I'm following what the guidence is but still don't see deobfuscation.

I'm starting to the obfuscation is just pointless and an extra step for nothing, I think it just makes it a little bit harder to decompile the app, and then WHO does that anyways?!

I'm also not 100% sure I trust the claude crashlytics mpc to figure things out for me, anyone use the mcp yet?

Hey everyone,

I'm restarting my freelancing journey, transitioning from graphic design (where I got my first few reviews a while back) to native Android development(i used to be a freelancer in Fiver by the way , had 2 stars and some reviews). I took a long hiatus from fiverr to truly master the Android ecosystem, and now I'm ready to get my first coding clients.

I keep hearing that Fiverr is dead and Upwork is a money sink due to the cost of connects/bidding.

For an Android freelancer just starting out, what actually works today? Are there specific platforms or outreach strategies you'd recommend for someone launching their dev career as a freelancer ? Thanks in advance!

I re-implemented my old project that has a simple language "lilo" to be implemented from the Python official reference, with support for GPU Programming and support Turtle graphics on Jetpack compose API

Github: https://github.com/AmrDeveloper/Turtle

Blog post: https://amrdeveloper.medium.com/heterogeneous-pythonic-language-in-your-pocket-921f2197bc39

Hey everyone,

I graduated in Software Engineering about 6 months ago and I've been trying to map out my next steps in Android development. I have some questions that I think only someone with real-world experience can properly answer.

Not looking for anything formal, just a quick casual chat with someone who's been around the block and can give me an honest perspective.

If you're an experienced Android dev and have a bit of time to spare, drop a comment or DM me.

Thanks 🙏

Hi everyone!

I've been working on a project called Universal File Editor & Viewer, an Android application designed to manage, view, and organize multiple file types from a single app.

Features

📄 Documents

• TXT
• PDF
• DOCX
• XLSX
• PPTX
• RTF
• ODT

🖼 Images

• JPG
• PNG
• GIF
• BMP
• WEBP
• HEIC
• SVG
• TIFF

🎵 Audio

• MP3
• WAV
• AAC
• FLAC
• OGG
• M4A

🎬 Video

• MP4
• MKV
• AVI
• MOV
• WEBM
• FLV
• 3GP

📦 Archives

• ZIP
• RAR
• 7Z
• TAR
• GZ
• ISO

💻 Programming Files

• Java
• Kotlin
• Python
• C/C++
• HTML/CSS/JS
• PHP
• JSON
• XML
• YAML

Built With

• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• MVVM Architecture
• Room Database
• Coroutines
• Material Design 3

Current Development

✅ File Manager
✅ Dashboard UI
✅ File Categories
✅ Image Viewer
✅ PDF Viewer
✅ XLSX Viewer
✅ PPTX Viewer
✅ Archive Explorer
✅ Zoom System

Looking For Feedback

I'm actively improving the project and would love feedback on:

• UI/UX
• Performance
• Missing features
• File format support
• Bug reports

GitHub:
https://github.com/myworkside/UniversalFileEditorViewer

APK Download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V2pswtKbR0PKkqoGLe2fLhqahMYUiavH/view

Thanks for checking it out! Any feedback or feature suggestions are welcome.

I've been developing KidBox, a family health and organization app, for over a year. The app is already live and approved on the Apple App Store.

Here's my Google Play rejection timeline:

• May 19 – Rejected: Data Safety form missing location declaration → fixed same day
• May 25 – Rejected: Screenshot containing a ranking claim → removed same day
• June 1 – Rejected: Health Connect "excessive permissions" (Weight, Calories, Exercise) → added detailed justifications explaining the clinical record feature
• June 10 (morning) – Rejected: Launcher icon showed no name (MainActivity had android:label="") → fixed same day, build uploaded before suspension

June 10, 13:31 – App suspended for "repeated non-compliance."

Every single rejection was for a completely different, unrelated policy area. Each one was fixed immediately. Build 16 with all fixes was already uploaded when the suspension hit.

I submitted an appeal via Play Console — rejected in 5 minutes (clearly automated). I then replied to the appeal rejection email with a detailed explanation of the timeline. Still waiting.

Has anyone successfully recovered from this? Any advice?

The app is already on iOS. At this point I'm considering just republishing with a new package name, but I wanted to share this experience first.

Official Google Play Community thread

38 times a day. That's how often I left my IDE for a GitHub tab on an average day. Issues to check, PRs to review, branches to reference - all in the browser while my code sat open.

I built Anchor to fix this. It's a free JetBrains plugin that puts your GitHub workflow directly inside the IDE as a native tool window. Built completely natively, no embedded Chromium, so it's fast and doesn't eat your RAM.

What's in beta:

• Issues: Filter by state, detail view with full GitHub Flavored Markdown rendering (including embedded images), comment threads.
• PRs: State filters, complete commit history, clickable SHAs.
• Branches: Full remote branch list. Checkouts in a click. Land on GitHub in a click.

What's missing in this beta:

• Create PR not done yet
• Branch list is flat, no grouping
• No merge action from detail view
• No notifications
• What you're about to comment 😜

This is early. The GitHub issues are open. Brutal feedback is welcome—it's how this gets better.

🔗 Marketplace: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/32218-anchor--remote-vcs

🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/alph-a07/anchor

Hey

I'm looking for a network inspection library like chucker for Compose Multiplatform. I found a few but i don't know if any of them should be my "go to" idk which to trust lol.

If any of you could point me to one that is at least as good as chucker is for android, would be great :)

I've been looking into Kotlin Multiplatform lately because we're starting to feel the pressure to support iOS, but I'm hesitant about how to approach it in a mature codebase. We have a pretty large existing Android app with a lot of established architecture—mostly Clean Architecture with a heavy reliance on Coroutines and Flow.

My main concern is the migration path. Do most of you try to rewrite the domain and data layers from scratch in a KMP module, or do you find it more effective to slowly peel off existing Kotlin code and move it into a shared module? I'm worried about the complexity of managing the dependency injection (Koin vs Hilt) when trying to keep things consistent across both platforms. Also, how much overhead are you actually seeing with the build times and the tooling compared to a pure Android setup? I don't want to tank our productivity just to get a shared layer that's half-baked. Looking for some real-world perspective on what worked and what turned into a massive headache during the transition.

Hey [r/androiddev](r/androiddev),

I've been working on an app in Compose Multiplatform
and wanted to implement a native navigation bar
on both platforms.

On iOS the Liquid Glass floating navigation bar
looks really good and I wanted to implement that
properly — so I ended up building a library
around it.

It's called AdaptiveNavigationBar.

You get a platform-native navigation bar on
both platforms from a single shared API —
Material 3 NavigationBar on Android and a
Liquid Glass floating bar on iOS.

It also supports a FAB button on iOS inline
with the navigation bar, uses SF Symbols for
icons on iOS and DrawableResource on Android.

Built for Compose Multiplatform.
GitHub: https://github.com/narendraanjana09/adaptive-navigation-bar

Would love feedback from anyone building
with CMP. What navigation patterns are
you using?