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Flutter 3.13 speeds rendering on iOS

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Kotlin 1.9.0 features beta of advanced K2 compiler

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Build better Jetpack Compose apps with Sentry

Sentry’s out-of-the-box integration with Jetpack Compose allows you to quickly identify and resolve errors and performance issues in your Android applications. Here’s how to get started.

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Android Studio Flamingo upgrades UI tooling

Latest version of Android Studio uses Jetpack Compose and Material 3 for new projects by default, introduces live editing for UIs as an experimental feature.

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Android 14 preview for developers arrives

The mobile OS emphasizes tablets, foldables, and enhancements such as improved battery life, security, and font scaling.

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What is Kotlin? The Java alternative explained

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

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Android 13 brings themed app icons, security tweaks

Latest version of the mobile OS allows app icons to tap into theme preferences and introduces more granular security and privacy features.

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Jetpack Compose 1.2 packs text improvements

Google toolkit for building native Android UIs toolkit enables more precise text alignment with font padding, introduces downloadable fonts API.

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JetBrains launches cross-platform UI framework for Kotlin

Compose Multiplatform 1.0 allows developers to build user interfaces for the desktop, Android, and web from a single codebase.

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Google unveils developer preview of Android 12L

Due in early-2022, Android 12L optimizes the Android system UI for large screens in preparation for the next wave of tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks.

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Microsoft weighs in on Surface Duo apps

Microsoft unveils guidance and tools for adapting applications for dual-screen, foldable, and large-screen devices, especially the Surface Duo 2.

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Deep Dive how-to: Office 365 document sharing

Office 2016, OneDrive, and Office 365 together offer powerful document collaboration capabilities across Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, and the web -- but only if you set them up and manage them properly. This how-to guide walks you...