Weekly Digest
Sep 8 - Sep 14, 2025
7 articles that week
Building a Modern Android Location Manager: From Legacy Approaches to Clean Architecture Excellence
Chamod Lakmal from PickMe Engineering just open-sourced a LocationManager that turns Android's notoriously messy location APIs into clean, testable code. No more callback hell or mystery crashes.
How to Use Liquid Glass in React Native
Callstack just dropped a guide on bringing Apple's Liquid Glass effect to React Native apps. If you've been eyeing those gorgeous iOS blur effects, this is your playbook.
Kotlin 2.2.20 Released
Kotlin 2.2.20 just dropped, and it's bringing web development into sharp focus. The biggest news? Kotlin/Wasm has officially hit Beta status.
Improve App Performance With Optimized Resource Shrinking
Johan Bay from Google just dropped a game-changer for Android app size. Apps sharing resources across form factors are seeing 50%+ size reductions with one configuration change.
Migrating Lyft's Android Codebase to Kotlin
Oleksii Chyrkov from Lyft just closed the book on a 7-year migration journey. The final push to eliminate Java from their entire Android codebase revealed some brutal truths about automated tooling.
Two Years with Kotlin Multiplatform: From Zero to 55% Shared Code
Stone, a Latin American fintech serving 4M+ users, went all-in on Kotlin Multiplatform two years ago. The results? 55% code sharing across their mobile apps.
Expo SDK 54: Better. Faster. Simpler.
Frank Calise from Infinite Red tested Expo SDK 54 and found iOS builds dropping from 5:28 to 3:33. That's a 35% time savings without changing a single line of code.