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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

From the field

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

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

Translating Micro Frontends to Android Cam Jackson's Micro Frontends article on martinfowler.com defines the pattern as independently deliverable frontend applications composed into a

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AI Agents and Android: The 2026 Landscape

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How to Be the Best Lead Mobile Developer

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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."

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Book Review: Cracking the Tech Career by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Book Review: Cracking the Tech Career If you've prepped for a coding interview in the last decade, you've probably run into Gayle

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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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