Keep Android Open Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Keep Android Open! keepandroidopen.org share.google/BSK62TkugrZU...

Anyone in my tech circle know any companies hiring Junior Engineers for London or UK/EU Remote roles?

My son (22yo) is passionate Rust + Typescript developer, with a couple of years of DevOps experience. It's really hard to get through initial applicant filters. I guess a lot of folk looking also.

I don't know if I should laugh or 😭 with you but I can relate. Hope you're able to restore it gracefully & good luck!

Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3 Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers to build robust experiences.

Today, we've released a brand new Jetpack library - Navigation3! A pure Compose, state based navigation library: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...

New dev version of #KMP plugin looks really nice...includes:

✅ KMP wizard in IDE
✅ Preflight checks on project open
✅ Run configs and device selectors for iOS
✅ Cross-language support with Swift, navigation, debugging
✅ Previews in common sources

plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14936...

UI layer architecture for persistent UI elements Should persistent UI elements be defined at the root level or per-screen?f

New blog post up on UI layer architecture for persistent UI elements like navigation bars, navigation rails, and floating action buttons!

www.tunjid.com/articles/ui-...

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Latest Android Weekly Issue 674 is out!
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I'm currently looking for a new fully remote, contract role. I have 15 years of Android experience, and plenty more Kotlin, Java , C / C++, and even more obscure stuff

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Latest Android Weekly Issue 673 is out!
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‘This is not a talk about that reasonable coroutines use.’

I’m speaking at Droidcon NYC in June nyc.droidcon.com/jesse-wilson/

In 2026

Talks:

* Building agentic microservices
* SOLID Principles for Agents

Workshops:

* Vibe Coder - From Zero to Hero
* Agile Methodologies for Agents

Certifications:

* Certified Vibe Coder
* Certified Agent Master

Not sure if you've tried aider.chat yet -- a CLI AI agent.

Do you have a great Compose Multiplatform app in production that you'd like to showcase?

Share it with us below!

A good reminder why you can pick up GenAI - and you probably should. Real story:

Small company, 5 devs. Last time they hired was 12 years ago. AI comes out: company wants to add AI feature. But they don't have the expertise. So hire an AI agency.

Agency spend 3 months planning:

Bump’s Journey into Delightful Experiences on Android with Jetpack Compose Bump leverages Jetpack Compose on Android, delivering meaningful touch-based feedback through graphics, haptics, and sound.

Super pumped to share our journey with Bump by amo on the official Android Developers blog! Dive into how we crafted delightful experiences using Kotlin, Compose, Media3 and Play Services.

medium.com/androiddevel...

👩‍💻👨‍💻 Ever wanted to contribute to an open-source project? The Ktor team has a list of “Up for Grabs” issues – easy-to-start tasks that make a real impact! 💪

Check out the full list here: ⬇️
youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues?q=%23...

Heron client for the 🦋 app by @tunji.dev is a great example of advanced Compose UI work. One of those projects to bookmark and use as reference.

github.com/tunjid/heron

Lots of you were asking for AI Assistant in Android Studio, it's finally ready to try!

Kotlin Weekly #448 has just been published! - mailchi.mp/kotlinweekly... -- it featured my work on KAnalytics addhen.github.io/kanalytics/. Thanks @kotlinweekly.bsky.social I'm grateful

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Latest Android Weekly Issue 664 is out!
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Today @c-base.org
BHNT 102 "Gulf of Hacks"
bring your hacks!

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Woohoo -- my work on [KAnalytics](addhen.github.io/kanalytics/) made into [Android Weekly](androidweekly.net/issues/issue-661) issue #661 - I'm grateful @androidweekly.bsky.social for the entry

From Swift to Kotlin: A Complete Guide to Cinterop in a KMP Project YouTube video by Stevdza-San

From Swift to Kotlin: A Complete Guide to Cinterop in a KMP Project www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVOr... >> very nice explanation

“Sleep on it” remains undefeated in debugging

a simple Java 23 program demonstrating some of the things showing how nice modern Java can be a simple Java 23 program demonstrating some of the things showing how nice modern Java can be - DemoApplication.java

modern java is pretty amazing
gist.github.com/joshlong/fcc...