Michael Evans

Update (February 25, 2026): The scroll indicator API described in this post was reverted in Compose Foundation 1.11.0-alpha06.

If your Jetpack Compose app supports light and dark themes, you’ve probably noticed the default behavior: a sudden cut between color schemes when the system UI mode changes.

If you’ve been working with Android for any amount of time, you’ve probably run into APIs that expose their results using callbacks or listeners.

As Android applications grow in complexity, maintaining a robust testing strategy becomes increasingly challenging.

SharedPreferences has long been a staple for storing small pieces of data and user preferences in Android apps.

Ktlint is a powerful linting tool for Kotlin code that helps maintain code quality and consistency.

Modern Android development often involves modularization to enhance build performance and maintainability.

Tracking how users install your app can be tricky, especially when you want to measure the effectiveness of your campaigns or ads.

Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) offers a powerful way to share code across platforms like Android, iOS, and the JVM.

A long, long time ago, I wrote a blog post about how I was using Flipper as one of my favorite development tools.

Late last year, Google announced the Android Developer Challenge, a contest for Android developers to show off new experiences made possible by on-device Machine Learning.

Some time last year, Facebook released a new mobile debugging tool, named Flipper.

Recently, I was doing some code cleanup and noticed that there were some data in the database that was no longer needed.

It seems like nowadays, the best advice is to modularize your Android app.

Today Google released their alpha of ViewPager2, a signal of the nail in the coffin for the original ViewPager, originally released in 2011!

If you’re like me, you loved the Night Mode feature that was added to the Nougat Developer Preview a few months ago.

If you want to integrate your Android app with most of Google Play Services nowadays, you’ll find that you are instructed to set up the Google Services Gradle plugin to handle configuring dependencies.

Pssst!

Unless you’ve been hiding from all the news about Android development, you’ve likely heard about Kotlin (which hit version 1.0 on Monday!).

I recently attended Google’s Android Dev Summit where the Tools team presented a talk entitled Android Studio For Experts.