Android Development

Build modern Android apps with guides on Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and the SDK, covering architecture, testing, and behaviour changes per release.

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Android Development 9 min read

Android 17 Resizability: How to Test Your App Adapts

Every post about Android 17's resizability mandate tells you what breaks. Almost none tell you how to know you've fixed it, which is a harder problem, because your entire UI test suite runs at exactly one window size.

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Android Development 8 min read

Android 17: The targetSdk 37 Changes Nobody Wrote About

Everyone covered the resizability mandate. The other targetSdk 37 behaviour changes get far less attention, and at least one of them is likely to break your instrumentation tests before it breaks your app.