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Issue #27: Android agents arrive 🛠️ Compose 1.11 stacks up 🎨 KMP gets cleaner 🧱 Pulsar brings the buzz 🪄

Context #3: 💌 In today's Context: The ceiling of AI delegation isn't your prompting skill. It's your tests, linters, and CI pipeline.

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Check out additional resources we've built to help you on a daily basis

• 🛠️ Which Compose API to use?: Easily translate classic Android APIs to Compose.

• ⚖️ UI Framework Comparison: Compare Jetpack Compose against SwiftUI, React, Flutter & VueJS

• 📚 Compose Catalog: A curated guide to the best Compose libraries and tools.

• 📌 Compose Snippets: Copy-paste solutions to common Compose problems.

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Who am I?

I'm Vinay Gaba, an Engineering Leader with extensive experience in building world-class consumer products at companies like Airbnb, Snapchat and Spotify. I currently lead an ambitious AI-first team at Airbnb, focusing on transforming ideas from design to code and accelerating high-quality product delivery. I’ve been recognized as a Google Developer Expert for Android for my contributions to the Android ecosystem and have been involved with it for ~15 years. Over the years, I've given numerous tech talks at conferences around the world, sharing knowledge and best practices with the Android community. A few of my notable creations include Showkase, JetpackCompose.app, Learn Jetpack Compose By Example and MakerOS.

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