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When Google introduced Leanback, it solved a hard problem: building focusable, remote-friendly UIs for Android TV. But Leanback was built on Fragments, Presenters, and XML themes — patterns that don’t scale well in 2025. With Jetpack Compose for TV, we finally get: A declarative focus model. Composable theming instead of...
Introduction Nowadays, while watching our favourite OTT applications, we have lots of options to choose from, sure, but at the same time, there are many devices to stream your favourite movie on too! Screens come in every shape and size: phones, foldables, tablets, desktops, and TVs - and your streaming app has to feel native on all...
Introduction Creating an awesome app for both iPhone and Android feels like running two marathons with separate teams. There is the iOS team happily working away in Swift and SwiftUI, then there is the Android team doing the same in Kotlin and Compose. They are practically building the same app in two different languages. That's extra...
Introduction Copilot is an AI-driven conversational assistant that enhances developer productivity by delivering contextual support, automating repetitive actions, and offering data insights within workflows. It also provides documentation assistance directly within supported code editors such as VS Code, Android Studio, JetBrains,...
Introduction If you've ever worked on an OTT application you must have heard such statements being made "The VST must be as little as possible" or "product team is observing spikes in user abandonment in cases where the VST is 2-3 seconds or more". So, what is this VST and why should it be as low as possible? In this blog we'll be...
If your React Native app suddenly refuses to launch on certain new Android devices — with cryptic messages like: “requires 16KB page size” “failed to map segment from shared object” or even a mysterious native crash before your JS code ever runs …then you’ve run head-first into Android’s 16K page size...
Imagine you're an app developer. You've worked hard on a new feature, but just before it's ready, a bug appears. You have a hard choice: either you delay the launch to fix the bug, or you release the feature with the bug and hope it doesn't cause problems. This happens because usually, when you release new code, the new features...
Introduction Google is making a quiet but powerful change under the hood of Android: the default memory page size is shifting from 4 KB to 16 KB. At first glance, this may sound like a minor technical adjustment—but in practice, it has wide-reaching effects on performance, battery efficiency, and app compatibility. Let’s break down...
Imagine downloading a promising app – only to face slow loading, crashes, or lag. Most users won’t give it a second chance. They uninstall and never come back. In a world of endless choices and ever-shorter attention spans, success in mobile app development services hinges on performance. An app has just a few seconds to impress....
Why Migrate? (Besides Google Telling You To😜) Google has spoken—ExoPlayer 2 is old news, and Media3 is the new standard for Android media playback. It’s modular, Jetpack-aligned, and designed for the long haul. If your app still relies on ExoPlayer 2, this migration ensures modern API design, better lifecycle handling, and...
Introduction Android UI development has evolved significantly with the introduction of Jetpack Compose. While XML-based layouts have been the standard for years, Compose offers a modern declarative approach. But how do they compare in terms of performance? In this blog, we’ll analyze CPU and memory usage of Jetpack Compose vs....
What are the Side Effects of Jetpack Compose? While working with Composable Functions, they often get recomposed on a change of state. When Functions propose it might update some data that is not in the cope of the composable functions. Such Scenarios are called Side Effects. For e.g. Making a network call inside a Compose Function which...
