Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this episode of Android News, I go over lots of crazy changes to the Android and Kotlin ecosystem, such as Firebase Studio, Google Play Console changes, new Kotlin features, IntelliJ updates or brand new Jetpack Compose utility 🙌

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00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Design Patterns Workshop
00:43 - Update on context Parameters
04:34 - Google Play Changes
06:39 - Update IntelliJ 2025.1
09:10 - New Room Version 2.7.0
10:01 - Android 16 Beta 4 Release
11:14 - Compose April’25 Update
13:31 - Firebase Studio