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).
From the field
Mostly Compose and KMP these days, with the odd leadership post when the code needs a break.
Animations in Jetpack Compose: From Basics to Shared Element Transitions
Compose Makes Good Animation the Path of Least Resistance Animation in the old View system usually meant ObjectAnimator, XML animator resources, or reaching for a library.
Kotlin Coroutines vs Dart's async/await: A Practical Comparison
Same Problem, Different Concurrency Models If you split your time between a Kotlin/KMM codebase and a Flutter one, it's easy to assume suspend
Building a Shared Networking Layer in KMM with Ktor
One Networking Layer, Both Platforms The single highest-leverage module to share in a KMM app is networking. It's pure logic, has no UI
State Management in Flutter: Provider vs Riverpod vs Bloc
There's No Single "Right" Answer — Only the Right Fit for Your Team Flutter deliberately doesn't ship an opinionated state management
Flutter Widget Lifecycle Explained: From Build to Dispose
Every Flutter Bug Report Traces Back to the Lifecycle Memory leaks, stale data, controllers that crash on hot reload — almost all of them come from misunderstanding
Flutter Performance Optimization: Finding and Fixing Jank
Jank Has Specific, Diagnosable Causes — Stop Guessing "The app feels laggy" is not a starting point for optimization — it's a symptom. Flutter
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.
New posts, roughly every other week
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