Android × Design System
Android Design System
We track 13 Android Design System case studies from 13 engineering teams. Adevinta Germany, Bumble and Callstack write about it most. Many posts also cover Jetpack Compose and UI Performance. The posts run from 2017 to 2026. The newest is from August 2026.
Android Design System articles 1–13 of 13
Gesture Handler's Touchable: Button We Wish We Had Sooner
Jakub Piasecki from Software Mansion just solved React Native's button problem. After shipping 9 different button components, they built one to replace them all.
Squircles, Styles, and Spacing: How Your Feedback is Helping Improve Mobile
Discord's Design Systems Team just shipped a masterclass in cross-platform consistency. Their mobile redesign proves that listening to user feedback can drive meaningful UX improvements at scale.
Rebranding on Android Apps: Behind the Scenes
Hannah Olukoye from mobile.de reveals how her team pulled off a complete Android rebrand in just 2 weeks—but only after tackling 8 years of technical debt first.
Tenant-Specific Theming with Material 3 in Jetpack Compose
Chamod Lakmal from PickMe Engineering just cracked white-label theming for Android apps. If you're building B2B platforms that need per-tenant branding, this implementation guide is gold.
Building a Compose Design System at Scale
Matias Isella from Glovo reveals how they built a Compose Design System that serves multiple apps at scale—without being locked into Material Design. Their API decisions could save you months of architectural h...
Refining Compose API for Design Systems
Yury from Bumble Tech tackles a problem every Android team faces: how do you build design system components that are both easy to use and flexible enough for edge cases?
Customising Android App UI with Themes
Maxim Kostenko from Revolut reveals how they built one of the most customizable Android apps on the market. Their approach goes far beyond basic dark mode—and it required reverse-engineering Android's own frame...
Sparking Jetpack Compose at Tinder
Tinder adopted Jetpack Compose before it hit 1.0. Here's how they navigated the alpha/beta chaos in a massive production app.
Android Community Month at Delivery Hero
Sid Patil from Delivery Hero shares how his team turned Droidcon Berlin into a masterclass on scaling Android apps across 50 countries. Over 300 developers stopped by their booth to learn what it takes to build...
Android UI Development with Jetpack
Neil Davies from Just Eat Takeaway reveals how his team eliminated manual theme updates across multiple Android apps. Their solution? A design token system that cut redesign time by 80%.
Beyond Mobile First: Modern Mobile Development Strategy
Ryan O'Neill from Square reveals why 9 out of 10 mobile shoppers think their experience could be better. His team's solution? Stop thinking mobile-first and start thinking app-first.
Open Sourcing Thumbprint Native Design System
Mallika Potter and Kevin Beaulieu from Thumbtack reveal how they open-sourced their entire native design system—and the surprising technical challenges they had to solve first.
Color Your Apps in React Native Using Material Palette
Want your React Native app to automatically match its UI colors to any image? There's now a library that taps into Android's Material Design color extraction magic.