Building Android Apps With AI: A Complete Workflow The typical Android app workflow involves ideation, architecture planning, coding, testing, code review, documentation, and release. Each stage is time-consuming and repetitive. But when you integrate AI assistants like Claude Code throughout the entire pipeline, something remarkable happens — you move faster without sacrificing quality, and each […]
The Gap That Claude Code Fills in Code Review Code review is one of the most valuable things a team does — and one of the most time-consuming. Reviewers catch real bugs, but they also spend energy on things that could be automated: spotting forgotten null checks, flagging coroutine scope misuse, noticing that a ViewModel
Claude Code hooks let you run your own shell commands automatically at specific points in Claude Code’s lifecycle — for example, after it edits a file or finishes a command. Imagine every Kotlin file Claude touches getting formatted and linted on the spot, or your test suite kicking off the moment a test file changes.
Automating Android Root Cause Discovery with AI: Crashlytics, MCP, and Claude 4.8 Every Android app that ships crashes. Users hit unexpected states, device configurations trigger edge cases, and third-party libraries fail in mysterious ways. The traditional approach to bug fixing is manual: you read the stack trace, search for the failing line, mentally reconstruct the
Building a live wallpaper is one of the best ways to learn Android’s rendering pipeline — and one of its harshest teachers of battery discipline. When your app draws on the home screen all day, every wasted frame eventually shows up in someone’s battery stats. Over the years building Seasons Live Wallpaper, I’ve learned that
The Stack Trace Triage Problem Every app that ships crashes. Users hit unexpected states, device configurations trigger edge cases, third-party libraries fail in mysterious ways. When a crash report lands in Firebase Crashlytics, you’re looking at a stack trace, maybe some breadcrumbs or custom logs, and you need to decide: Is this a high-priority bug?
The Gap That Claude Code Fills in Code Review Code review is one of the most valuable things a team does — and one of the most time-consuming. Reviewers catch real bugs, but they also spend energy on things that could be automated: spotting forgotten null checks, flagging coroutine scope misuse, noticing that a ViewModel
What Is the WallpaperColors API? Android 8.1 (API 27) introduced the WallpaperColors API, and it remains one of the most underrated tools for building personalized Android experiences. It lets you extract the dominant, secondary, and tertiary colors from your user’s system wallpaper and apply them to your app’s theme in real time. On Android 12+
Why Android Keyboard Animation Matters When your app shows a text input and the soft keyboard slides up, that moment sets the tone for user experience. A jarring jump or a laggy animation feels cheap. A smooth, synchronized transition where your content slides up in perfect sync with the IME (Input Method Editor) feels polished
What Is the Choreographer API? The Choreographer API is Android’s internal frame timing system — the heartbeat of smooth animation. Every frame your app draws, the Choreographer orchestrates the timing. It synchronizes with the device’s VSYNC signal (the vertical refresh of your screen), and it exposes a callback mechanism so you can hook into that
LLM Prompts for Code Refactoring: Structuring Your Requests When you’re facing a large refactoring task in your Android codebase, asking an LLM the right way can save you hours. Unlike simple coding questions, refactoring requires your AI assistant to understand the architectural context, the business logic you’re preserving, and the specific constraints of your project.
Generate Architecture Documentation Automatically from Your Codebase You know the problem: your app’s architecture documentation is either non-existent, wildly out of date, or buried in scattered wiki pages that nobody reads. By the time you onboard a new developer, they’re confused about module boundaries, data flow, and how components talk to each other. Modern LLMs
Creating Realistic Sky Gradients That Change With the Sun When you look at a great live wallpaper, what makes it feel alive isn’t just animation — it’s the sky. A static blue-to-orange gradient at the top of your screen feels dead after five minutes. But a sky that actually shifts through dawn blues, golden hours,
The Networking Problem in KMP Projects Before Kotlin Multiplatform, Android had Retrofit and OkHttp while iOS had URLSession or Alamofire — two completely separate networking stacks, two sets of models to keep in sync, and twice the bugs to chase. KMP solves this at the shared-module level, and Ktor Client is the library built specifically
