Architecting for Zero-Network Dependencies: Challenges in Offline-Only Geofencing
It happened during a quiet midday prayer. The mosque was silent, the atmosphere heavy with focus, and then—the unmistakable, high-pitched trill of a r…
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I Built (Almost) My Whole Play Store Listing Without Opening Figma — Here's the Free Tool That Did It
If you've ever shipped an app to Google Play, you know the feature graphic dance: open Figma, make a 1024×500 canvas, flatten it, export, upload, get …
Migrating 10 Android apps to target API 36 in one weekend
This post was originally published on androidshin.dev . When the Play Console notice landed, it landed on ten apps at once. Each one said the same thi…
Architecting a Reactive Geofencing Engine on Android Without Battery Drain
It was the middle of a Friday afternoon, and I was sitting in the back row of a lecture hall when my phone decided to perform a full-volume rendition …
Codename One Settings Is Now a Standalone Tool
Codename One Settings used to be a screen inside the old GUI Builder jar. It edited project properties, managed accounts, opened signing workflows, mo…
Integrating AeroPay SDK in React Native: A Step-by-Step Guide
In the world of digital payments, AeroPay offers a robust solution for smart bank transfers and direct bank connections. With its easy-to-implement SD…
Test Whether Mobile Backup Restores Data Without Restoring Its Key
A user restores an application backup onto a new phone. The encrypted database returns, but its key does not. The app opens to an endless loading stat…
I thought desktop copilots would win, then I tried building agents on Android
I used to assume the obvious home for AI agents was the desktop. Chrome extension. Sidebar copilot. Local app with a command bar. Maybe a browser auto…
Измеряя незримое: что и как измерять в мобильной разработке
Всем привет! Меня зовут Алексей, я техлид Android-направления в компании Домклик. Этой статьёй я открываю цикл материалов, в которых будут собраны мыс…
What Happens When You Send a Photo Through Most Messaging Apps?
Sending a photo feels simple. You choose an image, tap Send, and a few seconds later it appears on someone else's phone. Behind that simple action, ho…
The design work you must finish before Google Play's 14-day closed test
Google Play's 14-day closed test isn't just an ops requirement — it's 14 days when real people will use your app for the first time. If your design is…
Store Submissions As Code: App Store, Google Play, And Huawei AppGallery
This closes out the release week . Saturday's certificate wizard got your app signed. Today's feature handles what comes after the build finishes: upl…
RedHook malware turns on your phone's Wireless Debugging to stream your screen — and it never touches the consent dialog
On July 9, Group-IB published an analysis of a new build of the Android trojan RedHook , and it contains a first: the malware turns on Wireless Debugg…
Can an Old Android Phone See in the Dark? An Honest Guide to Overnight Recording (2026)
Short answer (updated July 2026): No. An old Android phone cannot do infrared "night vision," and no app can give it that — the IR-cut filter sitting …
🚀 I Built a Expense Splitting App Using HTML, CSS & JavaScript
🚀 I Built a Bill Splitting App Using HTML, CSS & JavaScript After spending time splitting travel and group expenses manually, I decided to build a…
Beyond the .tflite File: The Architect's Guide to Shipping High-Performance Edge AI on Android
If you think shipping AI to an Android device is as simple as dropping a .tflite file into your assets folder and calling a predict() method, you are …
AR And VR In Java: ARKit, ARCore, And A Virtual Room You Can Debug
This week's release post was about making the VM fast. Today's post is about pointing that VM at the real world. PR #5335 adds two new core packages: …
Locator-based vs vision-based mobile app testing
When a test needs to tap a button, it has to find the button first. There are two ways to do that. It can ask the app for its element tree and look th…
Architecting Geofencing for Android: Lessons in Battery Conservation
Opening hook The silence in the lecture hall was absolute, punctuated only by the professor’s rhythmic pacing. I was deep into a complex algorithm pro…
Beyond the Inference Time: A Deep Dive into Real-Time NPU Latency Visualization on Android
You’ve optimized your model. You’ve pruned the weights, applied quantization, and selected the perfect architecture. But when you deploy your Edge AI …
Beyond FP32: The Android Developer's Guide to High-Performance Custom Quantized Model Integration
In the world of mobile development, we are constantly fighting a war on two fronts: the demand for increasingly "intelligent" features and the rigid c…
Going Below Android's Volume Floor: DynamicsProcessing, LoudnessEnhancer, and Reproducible F-Droid Builds
Android's volume slider has a floor, and on a lot of devices that floor is louder than it should be. The first step above mute is a fixed fraction of …
How We Beat HotSpot Performance (By Cheating, But Not Like That)
No, we didn't cheat in the benchmark. At least I hope we didn't. Every optimization in this story was gated on bit identical output checksums against …
Whisper on Mobile Is Better Than I Expected, So I Built an Offline Notes App
I expected offline speech to text on mobile to be too slow, too heavy, or too unreliable for a real app. After testing Whisper locally on Android, I c…
Building Recourse.ai: A Parametric Insurance Prototype for the Age of Agentic AI
Every enterprise I've talked to in the last year has the same story: AI agents are being deployed faster than risk and compliance teams can review the…
Pixels to Predictions: Building High-Performance Edge AI Pipelines with CameraX and TFLite
You’ve built a machine learning model. It’s accurate, it’s lightweight, and it works perfectly on your desktop. But the moment you port it to an Andro…
Privacy by design at the binary level: no ghost SDK in your build
Most apps ship with passengers nobody invited: trackers, analytics and ad SDKs baked into the binary by default. We took the problem the other way aro…
Architecting for 100% Offline: Handling Android Geofencing Without Play Services
It was the second day of my cousin’s wedding. The ceremony was intimate, set in a quiet, traditional hall where silence wasn’t just requested—it was e…
Mastering Edge AI: How to Build High-Speed Vision Analyzers on Android
In the world of Deep Learning, there is a fundamental, almost violent tension: the computational greed of neural networks versus the strict, unforgivi…
Nobody Painted That Rectangle Black
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lr…