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.
Most Android developers reach for SavedStateHandle when they need a value to outlive process death, then move on. You inject it into a ViewModel, call get and set or getStateFlow, and the system restores the value after…
Jetpack Compose navigation is imperative code. A NavKey is declared in one file, an entry<Route> { Screen() } lambda wires it to a composable in another, and the actual transitions are backStack.add(...) calls buried…
Android's ViewModel has become an essential component of modern Android development, providing a lifecycle-aware container for UI-related data that survives configuration changes. While the API appears simple on the…
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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