Weekly Digest
Jan 12 - Jan 18, 2026
4 articles that week
Friday, Jan 16
React Native Best Practices for Building AI Agent Applications
Callstack just dropped a comprehensive guide for building AI agent apps in React Native. If you're shipping AI features to mobile, this one's packed with real-world patterns.
Thursday, Jan 15
LLM Flexibility and Agent Mode Improvements
Sandhya Mohan and Trevor Johns from Google just dropped a game-changer: Android Studio now lets you use ANY LLM—OpenAI, Claude, or even local models—to power your AI coding assistant.
Wednesday, Jan 14
Building the Same App in SwiftUI, Kotlin Multiplatform, and Flutter — What 281 vs. 75 Lines of Code Teaches Us
Dr. Simon Bogutzky built the same bill-splitting app three times. The line count difference? 75 vs. 281.
Tuesday, Jan 13
NavEntryScope: The missing scope in Android Hilt
Luca from Mercari's Logistics team hit a wall: multiple ViewModels on one screen needed to share data, but Hilt's built-in scopes forced them into Singleton hell with manual cleanup. So they built their own scope.