Android & Kotlin Technical Articles
Detailed articles on Android development, Jetpack Compose internals, Kotlin coroutines, and open source library design by skydoves, Google Developer Expert and maintainer of Android libraries with 40M+ annual downloads. Read practical guides on Retrofit, Compose Preview, BottomSheet UI, coroutine compilation, and more.
This is a collection of private or subscriber-first articles written by the Dove Letter, skydoves (Jaewoong). These articles can be released somewhere like Medium in the future, but always they will be revealed for Dove Letter members first.
Sooner or later, almost every app lets a user pick a photo and trim it: a profile picture, a cover image, a receipt, a product shot. On Android that has usually meant reaching for a View based cropper, launching a…
Back in 2018, Balloon started as an Android tooltip library built on PopupWindow, a FrameLayout, and a stack of XML animations. That foundation is what made it work well on Android and what made it impossible to run…
Every Compose screen you have ever written probably began the same way. You wrapped your UI in MaterialTheme { ... } and read values back out through MaterialTheme.colorScheme.primary,…
Table of Contents Introduction Architecture Overview Core Modules hot-reload-agent hot-reload-orchestration hot-reload-runtime-jvm hot-reload-gradle-plugin hot-reload-core hot-reload-analysis The Hot Reload Flow…
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