Android Weekly Issue 2025-09

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 2025/03/02

Android Weekly is a weekly newsletter focused on the Android technical ecosystem, updated every Monday. This newsletter delves into high-quality technical content in areas such as Android system architecture, performance optimization, cross-platform development, and AI, providing continuous knowledge updates and technical insights for developers.

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Technical Articles

What’s Up with Flutter merging Platform and UI Threads? What are the Implications?: Flutter 3.29 introduces a major change: Dart code now runs directly on the main thread in Android and iOS. This aims to optimize Native-Dart interaction, simplify thread management, and reduce async overhead. While improving efficiency for tasks like text input and PlatformViews, it may impact plugin compatibility.
From 18% to 64% Launch Speed: How We Optimized the Mini-Program Simulator: Kuaishou shares its journey in optimizing simulator performance for developers, achieving significant gains in FCP and instant-launch rates through specialized optimization tracks.
Can Damaged Core Files Still Be Saved? Yes, They Can.: Discussing methods to repair truncated or unparseable core files in GDB using the Fakecore feature, including linkmap reconstruction and thread stack recovery.
Facebook Opens Sources Screenshot Tests for Android: Automated Visual Regression Testing: Introducing Facebook’s tool for generating deterministic screenshots to track UI changes and prevent layout regressions in Android apps.
Deep Research into Android Startup Speed Optimization (Part 2): Following up on process analysis, this part focuses on common startup issues and metrics to complete the optimization workflow.
Using Perfetto Trace to Analyze Poor Input Response Time: A tutorial on using Perfetto to diagnose function execution time, CPU frequency scaling, and task scheduling issues related to touch input.
Performance Optimization Based on GPU Counter Data: Analyzing game performance bottlenecks via GPU metrics like memory R/W, vertex throughput, and fragment processing.
Enhancing Mobile Game Experience: Dual Optimization Strategies for Performance and Power: Discussing how OEMs balance smooth gameplay with power efficiency on mobile hardware, covering unique tuning capabilities available to device manufacturers.
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Don’t Upgrade Yet! Flutter Debug Fails on iOS 18.4 Beta: mprotect Permission Denied: Warning about new iOS memory restrictions impacting Flutter’s JIT compilation in debug mode.
Using Strategy Pattern in Android: Reducing Bad Code for Better Maintenance: Implementation guides for using design patterns to handle messy payment logic and modularize feature sets.
Exploring Android IPC: Unlocking the Mystery of Inter-Process Communication: Comprehensive look at Android IPC mechanisms, serialization, and solving multi-process issues with Binder, AIDL, and Messenger.
Understanding Memory Leaks and How LeakCanary Can Help: Definition, hazards, and mitigation steps for memory leaks with a focus on integrating LeakCanary for detection.
The 2025 “Hexagonal Warrior” Android Developer Trends: Skills required for top-tier developers in 2025: Compose UI, system internals, high-performance optimization, and security/reverse engineering.
Android NDK Example (Part 6): Image Memory Monitoring: Using ShadowHook to intercept image creation functions across different Android versions to monitor large memory allocations.