Android guides for Kotlin and Jetpack Compose developers. Learn to detect and fix ANRs, frozen frames, memory leaks, crashes and slow startup, with practical Gradle, WorkManager and Android Vitals techniques.
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Diagnose and fix 700ms+ frozen frames in Jetpack Compose. Learn how to implement AndroidX JankStats, enrich telemetry with PerformanceMetricsState, and safeguard Android Vitals.
Don Peter10 min read
How to migrate KAPT to KSP on Android, enable Kotlin 2 (K2) + Gradle configuration cache, and speed up Android Gradle build times with Room/Moshi and CI tips.
Don Peter8 min read
Build a production-ready Jetpack Compose shared element transition with Navigation, SharedTransitionLayout, and Accompanist. Covers keys, bounds, Coil, and back.
Don Peter11 min read
Build a production-ready on-device summarizer in Kotlin. Covers android gemini nano integration, Google AI Edge SDK setup, streaming, MVVM, and cloud fallback.
Sandra Rosa Antony13 min read
Integrate Android Baseline Profiles and Macrobenchmarks in CI/CD to cut cold start latency, protect Android Vitals, and gate regressions with managed devices.
Sandra Rosa Antony11 min read
Cut your user abandonment rate with user journey mapping and GFI. Diagnose drop-offs, reduce onboarding abandonment, and improve retention at scale.
Don Peter9 min read
Prevent TransactionTooLargeException on Android 15–17 with compact saved state: use IDs, SavedStateHandle, Room/DataStore rehydration, and Binder-safe flows.
Don Peter12 min read
Fix workmanager foregroundservicestartnotallowedexception android 17: gate setForegroundAsync, use expedited work, avoid illegal FGS starts; prevent crashes.
Robin Alex Panicker9 min read
Use user journey mapping with real user monitoring to find silent client-side failures, run funnel analysis, and recover app conversion rates when checkout drops.
Andrea Sunny9 min read
Fix BadParcelableException ClassNotFoundException after R8/ProGuard. Safe @Parcelize patterns, correct Bundle classloaders, and -keepnames rules.
Don Peter8 min read
Android 14–17 foreground service type errors? Migrate uploads and sync to WorkManager in Android, set correct types and permissions, and avoid crashes.
Don Peter9 min read
Learn to prevent ANR in Android: diagnose UI thread blocking and main thread starvation with Kotlin Android development tips, Perfetto, and monitoring.
Sandra Rosa Antony5 min read
Appxiom traces silent failures, frozen frames and broken user journeys back to the code that caused them, and shows what each one costs. Bring that context into your AI coding agent with the Appxiom MCP Server and Agent Skills.
