Firebase Remote Config is no longer completely free. Google has introduced usage-based pricing for Remote Config: 🟢 Free: up to 100K requests/day 🟡 100K–10M: $0.06 per 10K requests 🔴 10M+: $0.01 per 10K requests 🔗 Link: firebase.google.com/docs/remote-co… #Firebase #Google #MobileDev #AndroidDev

Kotlin's typealias doesn't create a new type — it's pure readability sugar. Useful for long generic signatures, useless for actual type safety. #Kotlin #AndroidDev #ProgrammingTips #Coding

Our Discord isn't just for VocabKit talk — half the channel is devs debugging KMP builds together. Come for one, stay for both. #DevCommunity #KotlinMultiplatform #BuildInPublic https://discord.com/invite/ZtkY5X4ha3

We spent this week saying no to three good ideas so we could finish one. That's the trade every week, really. #BuildInPublic #StartupLife #IndieDev

Closing this week grateful for the people who keep showing up — in the waitlist, the Discord, and the comments. Building this with you. #StartupLife #BuildInPublic #IndieDev

Some weeks the biggest win is deleting code, not adding it. This was one of those weeks. #StartupLife #BuildInPublic #IndieDev

Which LLM is actually best for Android development? Android Bench measures model performance across real tasks—and the leaderboard just got bigger. Newly added: 🔹 GPT 5.6 Sol 🔹 Claude Opus 5 🔹 Kimi K3 🔹 Qwen3.8 Max Check out latest rankings 🥇🥈🥉 developer.android.com/bench #androiddeveloper

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Discover the latest app development tools, platform updates, training, and documentation for developers across every Android device.

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Jetpack Compose 1.12 just dropped 🔥 New in this release: 🌅 Beautiful Mesh Gradients + Android Studio support ✌🏻 Interactive Two-Stage Transitions 💬 Powerful text upgrades, including editable formatting and text selection Now I wait for CMP side 🚀 android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/jetp...

The KMP and CMP Discord keeps proving that a small, focused community beats a big noisy one for actually solving hard build problems. #KMP #DevCommunity #Discord https://discord.com/invite/ZtkY5X4ha3

TBH what do you think about Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold? #Android #Google #Pixel

Discipline looks boring from the outside. It's the only reliable difference between founders who ship for years and founders who don't. #startup #founder #entrepreneur

Jetpack Compose 1.12 has been released! So many new goodies to look at: 🌅 Mesh Gradient support - along with support inside Android Studio for editing ✌🏻 Interactive Two-Stage Transitions 💬 Many text features such as editable text formatting android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/jetp...

What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Every design decision in VocabKit gets filtered through one question: does this help a word survive in memory past week three. #languagelearning #VocabKit #AppLaunch https://watermelonkode.com/vocabkit/

The best founders I know treat their own opinions as hypotheses, not conclusions. Data gets the final word, not conviction. #startup #founder #motivation

Compose Multiplatform lets a small team ship features across platforms in the same week instead of the same quarter. That speed compounds. #ComposeMultiplatform #KMP #CrossPlatform

Every founder eventually learns that consistency beats intensity. A mediocre plan you actually follow beats a perfect one you abandon. #startup #founder #buildinpublic

Have you had a chance to check out Stacked PRs? It’s a fresh addition to GitHub, and I haven’t had a chance to try it myself yet, but it looks promising. Also, just a heads-up, GitHub’s official desktop app, “GitHub Desktop,” doesn’t support it right now. github.blog/changelog/20...

Stacked pull requests are now in public preview - GitHub Changelog

Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…

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Strong skeleton loading states do more for perceived performance on Android than most actual performance optimizations. Users forgive wait, not silence. #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #Android

Nobody warns you that fundraising and building are two completely different full-time jobs, and most founders only trained for one. #startup #founder #entrepreneur

🚀 New article: 13 Compose Mistakes Still Hurting Your UI + Claude Skill I collected 13 common Jetpack Compose mistakes that can impact performance, stability, and maintainability—and created a Claude Skill to help detect them automatically with Claude CLI. blog.watermelonkode.com/13-compose-m...

13 Compose Mistakes That Are Still Killing Your App’s Performance in 2026 + Claude SKILL to Find…

This article walks through 13 mistakes I still see most often in code review in mid-2026, from recomposition and stability, to side-effect…

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The moment KMP stops feeling experimental is the moment your team stops asking 'should we share this' and starts asking 'why wouldn't we.' #KotlinMultiplatform #KMP #MobileDev

Sunday reading: our Medium publication just posted a deep dive on structuring a KMP monorepo for a five-person team. Worth the ten minutes. #KotlinMultiplatform #TechWriting #DevCommunity https://blog.watermelonkode.com

The hardest metric to fake as a founder is whether users come back on their own, without a push notification dragging them in. #startup #founder #motivation

Delegated properties in Kotlin turn repetitive getter/setter logic into something you write once and forget about. Underused outside lazy{}. #Kotlin #AndroidDev #ProgrammingTips

I won’t repeat that mistake. Last year, I rushed through @vocabkit.bsky.social due to shipaton, which resulted in a lot of AI-generated code issues because I went too fast. This year, I’m not concerned about joining shipaton. My focus is solely on quality and sustainability. #buildinpublic

Founders romanticize the pivot. Most of the time the answer isn't a new direction, it's talking to five more customers this week. #startup #founder #entrepreneur

Language apps love streaks. I care more about whether you still remember the word a month later. That's what VocabKit is built around. #languagelearning #VocabKit #waitlist https://watermelonkode.com/vocabkit/

Momentum in a startup isn't a feeling, it's a habit. Ship something small every single day and the feeling shows up on its own. #startup #founder #buildinpublic

Building VocabKit has taught me that the hardest UX problem isn't the interface, it's designing for a brain that forgets by default. #VocabKit #languagelearning #waitlist https://watermelonkode.com/vocabkit/

Kotlin Multiplatform Notes blog.watermelonkode.com Medium publication is still open for anyone writing about KMP, CMP, Kotlin, Android or Jetpack Compose. Good technical writing deserves more readers. 📇✍️ #KMP #TechWriting #Medium #AndroidDev #AppDev #Kotlin

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A home for Kotlin, Android, and Jetpack Compose developers whether you’re building multiplatform or Android-only. Practical articles on architecture, code quality, and real-world engineering decisions...

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