Weekly Digest
Aug 31 - Sep 6, 2026
4 articles that week
Leverage Android skills and Gemma 4 in Android Studio Quail 4
Android Studio Quail 4 is now stable and introduces bundled Android skills—AI-optimized instructions curated by the Android team—that guide LLMs through complex Android workflows, along with integrati...
Kotlin Toolchain 0.12: Multiplatform Library Publishing, Wasm Apps, and More
Joffrey Bion just dropped Kotlin Toolchain 0.12, and it's bringing the multiplatform publishing workflow developers have been waiting for. Plus, Wasm apps just got a whole lot more practical.
MVVM in SwiftUI: Using view models without overengineering
Antoine van der Lee tackles the most common SwiftUI mistake: slapping a view model on everything. His approach? Start simple, add MVVM only when it actually solves a problem.
WebView vs Server-Driven UI vs Code Push
Shorebird explores three approaches to shipping mobile updates faster. Which one actually delivers on the promise of speed without sacrificing native performance?