Weekly Digest
Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2026
7 articles that week
Stop Using FLAG_SECURE — Here's a Better Way to Protect Sensitive Screens in Jetpack Compose
Sanath Sajeeva Kumara from PickMe Engineering reveals why FLAG_SECURE is killing your Android app's UX. Banking apps block screenshots entirely—but there's a smarter way to hide sensitive data in Recent Apps while keeping screenshots enabled.
Flutter vs .NET MAUI in 2026: Architecture, Tooling, CI/CD, and Migration Trade-offs
The article content appears to be just a promotional snippet for Shorebird's integration tool, not the full Flutter vs .NET MAUI comparison promised in the title. Without the actual article content, I cannot provide an accurate summary.
Revolutionizing Mobile App Profiling: From Days to Minutes with Automation using ADB (Android Debug Bridge) & Python
Mithila Karunarathne and Manuja Hapuarachchi from PickMe turned a days-long performance profiling bottleneck into a minutes-long automated process. Their solution? Python scripts, ADB commands, and a clever wrapper pattern that monitors apps while they run.
Expanding Swift's IDE Support
Swift's official VS Code extension is now available on the Open VSX Registry, enabling broader IDE support across Cursor, VSCodium, AWS Kiro, and Google Antigravity with features like code completion,...
Performance for Everyone
Lin Wang from Pinterest's Android Performance team just solved a problem that costs most teams two engineer-weeks per feature: measuring user-perceived latency. Their solution? Make it completely automatic.
Flutter's Material and Cupertino code freeze
Justin McCandless from the Flutter team just announced a major architectural shift: Material and Cupertino libraries are being ripped out of the core framework. As of April 7th, the code is frozen.
From Idea to Reality: Behind Flip Slip, 3-Finger Capture, and the Pinch-to-Zoom PoC #MAKEbyKBank
Weera Youngnam from KBTG turned a personal pain point into a feature that caught executive attention. His journey from gyroscope experiments to production reveals how small PoCs can create outsized impact.