Why Unstructured AI Coding Fails for Android Projects You open your AI coding agent, type “add a settings screen with dark mode toggle,” and the agent immediately starts writing code. Three minutes later, it’s generated a SettingsActivity with XML layouts — except your app uses single-activity Compose navigation. It didn’t check your architecture. It didn’t […]
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 Skills Are in Claude Code Once you’ve used Claude Code for a while you’ll notice you repeat the same prompts. “Create a new feature screen with a ViewModel and UiState.” “Add a Room entity and DAO for this model.” “Write a Hilt module that provides this repository.” These are perfect candidates for skills —
The Part of Android Development “Nobody Enjoys” :P Writing tests and debugging are the two parts of Android development where most developers lose the most time. Tests feel like writing code twice, and debugging often means staring at a stack trace while trying to hold an entire call graph in your head. Claude Code doesn’t
Why Claude Code Is Worth Setting Up Properly for Android If you’ve tried using Claude Code for Android development without any configuration, you’ve probably found it helpful but inconsistent. It might suggest Retrofit when your project uses Ktor, generate Java when you want Kotlin, or miss your architectural conventions entirely. The difference between a generic
AI-assisted development has moved well beyond autocomplete. Claude Code — Anthropic’s agentic coding tool — can read your project, reason about your architecture, write Kotlin, generate tests, and even help you debug Gradle. But like any powerful tool, it rewards those who know how to use it well. This guide walks you through everything you
