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I was recently assigned a ticket to migrate our app’s Urdu font from Jameel Noori to Noto Nastaliq.
On paper, this sounded like a simple font swap. In practice, it turned into a deep dive into how Android measures and renders complex-script text.
Noto Nastaliq doesn’t just look different from Jameel Noori. It also behaves differen...
Most first apps die before the first line of code.
Not because the idea was bad. Because of setup. Maybe you know this story: you have an app idea. You search “how to build a mobile app”. Forty minutes later you know this much: iPhone apps need a Mac, Xcode, and Swift. Android apps need Android Studio and Kotlin. So you have to build the app twice and with entirely diff...
Every Android dev has seen the DKA checkbox in Developer Options. Almost nobody tests with it on. I didn’t either, until I had to track down two production bugs, months apart, that only reproduced with it on.
The first bug looked like a media picker that forgot how to respond to taps. The second looked like a profile screen that forgot how to navigate. Different feature...
By Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Image custom-generated by the author.In my previous article, Multi-Module Build Economics: Designing API vs. Implementation boundaries...
Google’s official Android guidance was updated on May 18, 2026 — and it now explicitly recommends turning ViewModel events into UI state
Image created by AIFor a long time, Android UI architecture has often looked something like this:
ViewModel