#android

Google's Android Bench scores LLMs on real Android engineering tasks. A look at what the June 2026 leaderboard actually says — why the top is a statistical tie, where the real cost-efficiency winners are, and the trap hiding in the cost and latency columns.

Google shipped ADK for Android in May. I built a Compose app — clean architecture, MVI, Hilt, persistent chat history — where a Gemini agent calls real on-device functions, and hit every sharp edge the docs don't mention.

A hands-on walkthrough of Android's experimental AppFunctions API. I build a small but complete notes app, expose four functions to on-device agents with @AppFunction, and trace exactly what the KSP compiler generates and how the system discovers and invokes them.

Part 2 of the foldables series. We build an adaptive media player in Jetpack Compose that reacts to tabletop and book postures with Jetpack WindowManager, picks list-detail layouts with window size classes, and verify all of it on the Pixel Fold emulator.

I've spent months building Android apps — todo, drawing, live wallpaper, launcher, Kotlin Multiplatform, full-stack with Ktor — entirely with Claude Code, without writing a line myself. This is an honest account of what worked, what didn't, what it cost, and what I think it means for how software gets built next.

Part 1 of 2: An experiment in using an AI coding agent to autonomously generate, publish, and document a complete Android analytics library — from a technical design doc to a live JitPack release.

A practical look at MVI, MVVM, and clean architecture in modern Android apps — when to use each and what the tradeoffs actually are.

Navigation 2.8 replaced string routes with serializable classes. Here is what that migration looks like in a real app, including nested graphs, deep links, and back-stack manipulation.

This blog explores the types of foldable devices, challenges and opportunities they present for app developers.

Android O handed users direct control over notification categories — sound, vibration, lock screen visibility, and Do Not Disturb overrides, all per channel. Here's how to create channels and assign notifications to them.