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How To Win Friends And Influence Internal Visibility

Nov 11, 2025 · 7 min read · Intro I recently learned about friendPaths as part of the Kotlin Gradle Plugin while browsing an Android Slack group. From the documentation on friendPaths: "Paths to the output directories of the friend modules whose internal declarations should be ...

Bridging the Gap: Making Jetpack Compose Row Behave Like SwiftUi & Web

Apr 13, 2025 · 5 min read · If you've ever tried to compare the behavior of Row in Google's Jetpack Compose, HStack in Apple's SwiftUi, and something like display: flex in the web world, you'll see some interesting results. First, let's take a look at how HStack renders two lon...

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Debug Drawers and You: Adding A Debug Drawer To Your App

Sep 26, 2024 · 4 min read · Said another way, how to supercharge your development workflow with a debug drawer. As Android developers, we're constantly looking for ways to streamline our workflow. One often-overlooked tool that can significantly boost your development process i...

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Compose Guard: Detecting Regressions In Jetpack Compose

May 22, 2024 · 4 min read · As Jetpack Compose becomes more widely used across Android (and Multiplatform projects!), detecting regressions via tooling becomes more important to shift left and detect regressions earlier in the development cycle instead of relying on manually ca...

Adding Custom Messaging In Android Studio On Top of Confusing Gradle Errors Via IntelliJ Plugin

Apr 2, 2024 · 4 min read · In our Android project at work, we have the separation of Android modules and JVM modules. There are a lot of benefits to this setup, but one side effect of this setup is that JVM modules cannot depend on Android modules. However, Android modules can...