Weekly Digest
Dec 1 - Dec 7, 2025
6 articles that week
Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop
Sandhya Mohan and Trevor Johns from Google just dropped Android Studio Otter 2, and it's packing Gemini 3 Pro with a 1 million token context window. Your AI coding assistant just got a serious upgrade.
The Complete Guide to Offline-First Architecture in Android
Your Android app crashes when the WiFi drops. Your users' apps shouldn't. Offline-first architecture flips the script: the network becomes optional, not essential.
Boost Flutter App performance with API Response Caching
Your Flutter app is making the same API calls over and over. Every screen load, every refresh—wasting bandwidth, draining batteries, and frustrating users with unnecessary wait times.
Kotlin 2.3.0 Released
Kotlin 2.3.0 just dropped with some serious multiplatform firepower. If you're building cross-platform apps, this release fundamentally changes how you work with Swift, Wasm, and native code.
Exploring KotlinX Benchmark Results with Kotlin Notebooks
Filipp Zhinkin and Teodor Irkhin from JetBrains show how staring at raw benchmark tables is costing you insights. Kotlin Notebooks turn those text dumps into interactive visualizations that actually tell a story.
How Mobile Development Teams Use Kotlin in 2025
José Luis González, a JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer, reveals the production bugs that still plague mobile teams in 2025. One tiny mistake in exception handling can silently break your entire app's lifecycle management.