FFekri1d ago · 12 min readSpotting New iOS Apps in Kotlin: Polling Search Results for Fresh Release Dates, and the Walls You'll Hit (2026)Most indie iOS developers watch the big names in their category. The apps that take your spot on a keyword are often ones you've never heard of. They shipped six weeks ago, and they climb a few placesfekdaoui.hashnode.dev
WWaqas Shahid1d ago · 3 min readKotlin Explained: Java's Modern Successor, Now Android's First ChoiceIntroduction Kotlin, from JetBrains, is officially Google's preferred language for Android development, and it also runs anywhere Java runs, because it compiles to the same JVM bytecode. Think of it apracticaldevblog.hashnode.dev
GGlassesFlip2d ago · 4 min readHands-free item recognition with Meta's Wearables Device Access Toolkit: building "hold it up and get a verdict" on AndroidI resell on the side, and the worst part of sourcing at a thrift store is the phone: one hand full of items, the other typing searches. So I'm building GlassesFlip, an Android app that works with Ray-glassesflip.hashnode.dev
MMayank Kumar5d ago · 5 min readAI Can Write My Kotlin. Who's Going to Debug It at 2 AM?It's 2:07 AM, and Crashlytics has opinions. The crash is in a ViewModel that git blame says you wrote. You didn't. An agent did, and its pull request said "all tests pass." They do. The agent updated imayankkumar.hashnode.dev
MManuel Alejandro Hermoso5d ago · 4 min readHacktoberfest: 13 small, well-described issues in a Kotlin library for AI agentsHacktoberfest ends on October 31. If you write Kotlin, or want to, and are looking for a pull request that gets reviewed quickly, here are 13 open issues in Telar. Each one says what to build, which fdeeptelar.hashnode.dev
SSanskriti Harmukh5d ago · 11 min readBuilding Serverless APIs with Kotlin Ktor and CoroutinesModern serverless platforms demand fast startup times, low resource overhead, and efficient concurrency. Kotlin, with its modern syntax and coroutine-based concurrency, and Ktor, its lightweight asyncvultr.hashnode.dev
GGALAL ALDEEN ABAS6d ago · 2 min readI Built ComposeBridge: Real-Time Jetpack Compose UI Tweaks via AST & MCP If you develop Android apps with Jetpack Compose, you are likely familiar with iteration fatigue: tweaking a padding from 8.dp to 16.dp or adjusting a color shade, only to wait 20 to 40 seconds for Grtechsone.hashnode.dev
SSai Ram KothaOct 19 · 6 min readGemini Nano 4 Is in Preview. Your Prompt Budget Still Has to Fit.Google's on-device model for Android is free to call and runs without a network round trip. The limits are in the docs: input must be under 4,000 tokens, and Google asks developers to avoid output ovesairamkotha.hashnode.dev
CCharles HartmannOct 16 · 7 min readTen quick edits should not queue ten syncs: unique work in WorkManager, done rightThe user saves a note on the subway and puts the phone in their pocket. Android may kill your process a minute later. The note still has to reach the server when the train comes up for air, maybe in ahomelabtherightway.hashnode.dev
MManuel Alejandro HermosoOct 13 · 9 min readAn AI agent that asks before it pays: human approval for tool calls in Kotlin An agent that only talks is easy to trust. An agent with a refund tool is not. The model decides when to call it and with which amount, and the same question can get a different answer tomorrow. I dondeeptelar.hashnode.dev
