Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this episode of Mobile Dev News I will go over the most relevant changes for the Kotlin ecosystem from April 2026. We're covering all sorts of new Compose changes, from Compose getting a Flexbox layout, a grid layout, to Android Credential Manager updates and more.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:19 - Jetpack Compose April’25 Release
07:22 - Verified Email via Credential Manager
09:00 - Android Studio Panda 4
10:47 - Hybrid Inference & new Gemini Models
11:34 - The fourth beta of Android 17
14:31 - New Android CLI tools