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Android 16 turns predictive back from an opt-in nice-to-have into a production regression surface for apps targeting API 36. Here’s a practical preflight to find where your Compose + Views navigation, modals, and custom back logic will break — and a migration plan that avoids a rewrite.
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Google Play is tightening access to READ_CONTACTS for apps targeting Android 17+. Here is how to migrate invite, referral, and address-book matching flows to the Android Contact Picker (and related alternatives) without breaking growth loops or compliance.
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Kotlin 2 changed how the Compose compiler is shipped and upgraded, and a lot of repos are still configured as if the compiler is a separate, independently versioned thing. This is a pragmatic migration checklist plus the two failure modes we keep seeing in CI, and how to catch them early.
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Google has gone Compose-first and placed the legacy View toolkit into maintenance mode. This is a practical playbook for migrating incrementally without ending up supporting two UI systems forever.
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Swift 6’s strict concurrency checking can fail in places you didn’t write: imported SDK types that aren’t Sendable, SwiftUI initialiser isolation, and framework-driven defaults. Here’s a pragmatic decision tree for keeping checks on while containing the blast radius.
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Swift 6 strict concurrency tends to fail at the same SwiftUI boundaries: view model initialisation, navigation, delegates, and “just one cache”. Here are seven repeatable refactors that keep correctness and code review manageable.
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Kotlin Multiplatform is now widely treated as production-ready for sharing business logic across Android and iOS, but the hardest decisions are still architectural: what to share, how to package it for iOS, and when shared UI becomes a liability rather than leverage.
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React Native’s New Architecture has been default since RN 0.76, but real migrations still fail on dependency alignment and interop surprises. This checklist turns those surprises into a preflight scoring rubric so you can forecast breakage and stage rollouts instead of ‘upgrade and pray’.
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AI makes some tickets dramatically faster and others dramatically slower once review, QA, security and rework show up. An uncertainty ledger makes variance explicit and prices it into fixed-bid scopes.
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