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Notes from a
lead mobile
engineer.

I write about Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform, and the occasional Flutter detour — plus what it actually takes to lead a mobile team without losing the plot. No marketing copy, just what worked (and what didn't).

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Recent posts

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Mostly Compose and KMP these days, with the odd leadership post when the code needs a break.

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How to Structure Your Android App to Work With AI Agents

Building for Agents Is an Architecture Decision, Not a Feature Bolt-On If your app's business logic already lives buried inside ViewModels or, worse,

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Implementing Micro Frontends in Android with Compose and Multi-Module Libraries

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AI Agents and Android: The 2026 Landscape

Android Is Becoming an Intelligence System, Not Just an Operating System Google's own framing for 2026 is blunt about it: Android is shifting from

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How to Be the Best Lead Mobile Developer

Lead Mobile Developer Is Its Own Discipline, Not "Senior Plus Meetings" Mobile leadership has a specific texture that generic engineering leadership advice misses: you&

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Agile vs. Waterfall: A Full Guide to Scrum, Kanban, and XP

Agile vs. Waterfall — and What "Agile" Actually Means in Practice "We're Agile" is one of the most overused and under-

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How to Go From Senior to Lead: A Practical Roadmap

The Jump Nobody Explains Well Most engineers get told, at some point, that going from Senior to Lead is "about more than just code."

Coding
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About the author

Hey, I'm the person behind Youdroid.

I lead a mobile engineering team by day and write here by night (well — mostly on weekends, coffee in hand). This blog is where I dump the stuff that doesn't fit in a Slack thread: Compose patterns I keep reaching for, what actually happened when we moved shared logic to Kotlin Multiplatform, and the messier parts of managing engineers instead of just being one.

No sponsored posts, no growth-hacking. Just notes from someone who's still writing Kotlin most days and occasionally still gets paged at 2am.

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