https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/ 2026-11-27 weekly 1.0 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/ 2026-11-27 daily 0.9 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/navigation-migration/ 2026-11-27 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/navigation-migration/hero.png Two navigation systems can share one back stack, which is the only reason this works https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/recyclerview-to-lazycolumn/ 2026-11-26 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/recyclerview-to-lazycolumn/hero.png Porting a RecyclerView deletes four classes and keeps one idea https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/views-in-compose/ 2026-11-25 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/views-in-compose/hero.png AndroidView has two lambdas, and putting work in the wrong one is the bug https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/compose-in-views/ 2026-11-24 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/compose-in-views/hero.png ComposeView is easy; deciding where to put it is the migration https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/common-testing-patterns/ 2026-11-23 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/common-testing-patterns/hero.png What a Compose test suite should actually contain https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/synchronisation/ 2026-11-22 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/synchronisation/hero.png A flaky test is a timing assumption you didn't know you made https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/testing-apis/ 2026-11-21 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/testing-apis/hero.png Find, act, assert — and the rule that decides which test to write at all https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/semantics-tree-testing/ 2026-11-20 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/semantics-tree-testing/hero.png Your UI tests query the accessibility tree, which is why testTag is a last resort https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/measuring-with-the-tools/ 2026-11-19 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/measuring-with-the-tools/hero.png Four tools, four questions, and none of them answers another's https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/deferred-reads/ 2026-11-18 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/deferred-reads/hero.png Nine pillars have quietly been teaching you one optimisation https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/baseline-profiles/ 2026-11-17 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/baseline-profiles/hero.png Baseline Profiles fix a problem recomposition counts can't see https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/stability-and-strong-skipping-part-2/ 2026-11-16 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/stability-and-strong-skipping-part-2/hero.png Strong skipping made most of yesterday's advice unnecessary https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/stability-and-strong-skipping-part-1/ 2026-11-15 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/stability-and-strong-skipping-part-1/hero.png The compiler decides your types are unstable, and it writes down why https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/the-three-phases-recap/ 2026-11-14 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/the-three-phases-recap/hero.png Compose performance is one question asked in four places https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/drag-and-drop/ 2026-11-13 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/drag-and-drop/hero.png Drag-and-drop crosses app boundaries, which is why it isn't just a drag gesture https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/focus/ 2026-11-12 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/focus/hero.png Focus is the input model you don't test until someone plugs in a keyboard https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/scroll-phases-and-nested-scroll/ 2026-11-11 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/scroll-phases-and-nested-scroll/hero.png Nested scroll is a negotiation, and there are four moments to intervene https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/multi-touch/ 2026-11-10 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/multi-touch/hero.png Pinch, pan and rotate arrive together, and the centroid is what ties them https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/drag-swipe-fling/ 2026-11-09 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/drag-swipe-fling/hero.png Swipe-to-dismiss is a state machine with anchors, not a drag handler https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/tap-and-press/ 2026-11-08 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/tap-and-press/hero.png clickable does six things, and detectTapGestures does one https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/pointer-input/ 2026-11-07 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/pointer-input/hero.png Every gesture in Compose is a coroutine reading a stream of events https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/testing-accessibility/ 2026-11-06 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/testing-accessibility/hero.png Automated checks find the missing labels. They can't tell you the label is wrong. https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/traversal-order/ 2026-11-05 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/traversal-order/hero.png Reading order is layout order, until your layout stops matching your meaning https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/merging-and-clearing-semantics/ 2026-11-04 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/merging-and-clearing-semantics/hero.png One card, four announcements — merging is the fix https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/semantics-basics/ 2026-11-03 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/semantics-basics/hero.png Compose builds a second tree, and it's the one your users hear https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/testing-animations/ 2026-11-02 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/testing-animations/hero.png Take the clock away and animations become testable https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/shared-elements/ 2026-11-01 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/shared-elements/hero.png A shared element transition is one element pretending to be two https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/animated-visibility-and-content/ 2026-10-31 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/animated-visibility-and-content/hero.png You cannot fade out something that has already left the composition https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/transitions/ 2026-10-30 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/transitions/hero.png updateTransition is a state machine that happens to animate https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/animate-as-state/ 2026-10-29 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/animate-as-state/hero.png You don't animate from A to B, you declare B and Compose handles the rest https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/choosing-an-animation-api/ 2026-10-28 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/choosing-an-animation-api/hero.png Compose has a dozen animation APIs and one decision tree https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/bitmap-optimisation/ 2026-10-27 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/bitmap-optimisation/hero.png Four bytes a pixel is the number that decides whether your app gets killed https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/shapes-and-shadows/ 2026-10-26 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/shapes-and-shadows/hero.png A shadow needs a shape, and Compose won't guess one for you https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/brush-and-gradients/ 2026-10-25 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/brush-and-gradients/hero.png Your gradient is measured in pixels, and that's the bug https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/custom-painter/ 2026-10-24 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/custom-painter/hero.png A Painter is the thing that knows how big it wants to be https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/image-bitmap-vs-image-vector/ 2026-10-23 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/image-bitmap-vs-image-vector/hero.png A vector costs CPU once, a bitmap costs memory forever https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/loading-images/ 2026-10-22 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/loading-images/hero.png contentScale and Modifier.size are answering different questions https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/autofill-in-compose/ 2026-10-21 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/autofill-in-compose/hero.png Two lines of autofill are worth more than a week of form polish https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/fonts-and-emoji/ 2026-10-20 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/fonts-and-emoji/hero.png Your custom font has a fallback, and you didn't choose it https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/text-fields-and-state/ 2026-10-19 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/text-fields-and-state/hero.png TextFieldState is a document, and edits are transactions on it https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/paragraph-and-layout/ 2026-10-18 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/paragraph-and-layout/hero.png Your list rows are different heights because text measurement is honest https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/displaying-and-styling-text/ 2026-10-17 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/displaying-and-styling-text/hero.png AnnotatedString is why you don't need three Text composables in a Row https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/new-styles-api/ 2026-10-16 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/new-styles-api/hero.png Compose is growing a styles API, and it's for the gap theming never covered https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/custom-theming/ 2026-10-15 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/custom-theming/hero.png Extending MaterialTheme beats replacing it, until it doesn't https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/shape-system/ 2026-10-14 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/shape-system/hero.png Corner radius is a signal, and Material has five of them https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/typography-scale/ 2026-10-13 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/typography-scale/hero.png Fifteen named text styles are fewer decisions than five https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/colour-schemes-dynamic-colour/ 2026-10-12 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/colour-schemes-dynamic-colour/hero.png Dynamic colour takes your brand palette away, and that's the deal https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/m3-anatomy/ 2026-10-11 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/m3-anatomy/hero.png MaterialTheme is three CompositionLocals and nothing else https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/search-and-chips/ 2026-10-10 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/search-and-chips/hero.png SearchBar has two states, and the second one takes over the screen https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/pickers/ 2026-10-09 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/pickers/hero.png Date pickers are a timezone bug with a calendar attached https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/progress-and-feedback/ 2026-10-08 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/progress-and-feedback/hero.png The spinner you show for 200ms is worse than no spinner https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/navigation-components/ 2026-10-07 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/navigation-components/hero.png Bar, rail, drawer — the same destinations, chosen by window width https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/dialogs-and-sheets/ 2026-10-06 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/dialogs-and-sheets/hero.png A dialog is state, not a function you call https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/text-fields/ 2026-10-05 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/text-fields/hero.png The TextField overload you're using is probably the deprecated one https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/selection-controls/ 2026-10-04 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/selection-controls/hero.png Checkbox, radio, switch: three controls, three different questions https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/buttons-and-fab/ 2026-10-03 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/buttons-and-fab/hero.png Five buttons, one hierarchy, and the rule that decides which https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/scaffold-and-app-bars/ 2026-10-02 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/scaffold-and-app-bars/hero.png The Scaffold parameter everyone ignores is the one that breaks the layout https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/connected-displays/ 2026-10-01 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/connected-displays/hero.png An external display is a second window, not a bigger one https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/foldables/ 2026-09-30 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/foldables/hero.png A hinge is a physical object, and your layout should know where it is https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/supporting-pane/ 2026-09-29 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/supporting-pane/hero.png SupportingPaneScaffold is for content that is about other content https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/list-detail-pane/ 2026-09-28 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/list-detail-pane/hero.png ListDetailPaneScaffold: the back button is the whole reason it exists https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/canonical-layouts/ 2026-09-27 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/canonical-layouts/hero.png There are three adaptive layouts, and you probably don't need a fourth https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/window-size-classes/ 2026-09-26 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/window-size-classes/hero.png Screen size is the wrong thing to branch on. Window size is the right one. https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/flexbox-alternative/ 2026-09-25 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/flexbox-alternative/hero.png Porting FlexboxLayout: every flex property maps onto something, but not onto one thing https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/grid-layout/ 2026-09-24 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/grid-layout/hero.png Sometimes the right grid is a Column of Rows https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/flow-layout/ 2026-09-23 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/flow-layout/hero.png FlowRow is the chip group you kept writing a custom Layout for https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/pager/ 2026-09-22 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/pager/hero.png HorizontalPager is a lazy list that snaps — and PagerState is where the bugs live https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/lazy-grid/ 2026-09-21 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/lazy-grid/hero.png A grid is not a list with two columns https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/lazy-column/ 2026-09-20 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/lazy-column/hero.png LazyColumn is not a faster Column, and items(key = …) is not optional https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/custom-modifiers/ 2026-09-19 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/custom-modifiers/hero.png Write a custom modifier only after you've ruled out a function https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/constraints-and-modifiers/ 2026-09-18 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/constraints-and-modifiers/hero.png Why fillMaxWidth() sometimes does nothing https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/modifiers-part-2-order/ 2026-09-17 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/modifiers-part-2-order/hero.png padding().background() and background().padding() are not the same picture https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/modifiers-part-1/ 2026-09-16 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/modifiers-part-1/hero.png A Modifier is a linked list, and that explains almost everything about it https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/layout-basics/ 2026-09-15 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/layout-basics/hero.png Column, Row, Box — and the single-pass rule that makes them fast https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/state-holders-pattern/ 2026-09-14 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/state-holders-pattern/hero.png Not every state holder is a ViewModel https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/architectural-layering/ 2026-09-13 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/architectural-layering/hero.png The UI layer has two halves, and merging them is why screens become untestable https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/compositionlocal/ 2026-09-12 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/compositionlocal/hero.png CompositionLocal is not dependency injection, and using it that way hurts later https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/saving-ui-state/ 2026-09-11 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/saving-ui-state/hero.png rememberSaveable survives what remember doesn't — and it isn't a bigger remember https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/state-hoisting-pitfalls/ 2026-09-10 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/state-hoisting-pitfalls/hero.png Six parameters deep and none of them are used here https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/state-hoisting-in-viewmodel/ 2026-09-09 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/state-hoisting-in-viewmodel/hero.png The ViewModel is not the default place for state. It's the place for state that outlives the screen. https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/state-hoisting-basics/ 2026-09-08 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/state-hoisting-basics/hero.png State hoisting is one question: who else needs to know? https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/three-phases/ 2026-09-07 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/three-phases/hero.png Composition, layout, drawing — and why reading a value in the wrong one costs frames https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/side-effects-intro/ 2026-09-06 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/side-effects-intro/hero.png Your composable ran four times. So did your network call. https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/lifecycle-of-composables/ 2026-09-05 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/lifecycle-of-composables/hero.png A composable's lifecycle is three events, and none of them is onDestroy https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/recomposition/ 2026-09-04 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/recomposition/hero.png Recomposition doesn't re-run your screen. It re-runs the scopes that read what changed. https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/first-composable/ 2026-09-03 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/first-composable/hero.png What @Composable actually does to your function https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/thinking-in-compose/ 2026-09-02 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/thinking-in-compose/hero.png Thinking in Compose: you can't reach into the UI any more, and that's the point https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/setup-and-bom/ 2026-09-01 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/setup-and-bom/hero.png Compose has two version problems, and the BOM only solves one https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/blog/adb-install-r-stale-screenshot/ 2026-08-31 monthly 0.8 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/posts/adb-install-r-stale-screenshot/stale-composition.png adb install -r doesn't kill your app, so your screenshot is a lie https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/company monthly 0.5 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/contact monthly 0.5 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/privacy yearly 0.3 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/terms yearly 0.3 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/refund yearly 0.3 https://blogs.mobilebytesensei.com/support yearly 0.3