Android Weekly Issue 2025-14

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 2025/04/13

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

GapBuffer from a Cross-Platform Framework Perspective: Exploring how the GapBuffer data structure optimizes UI tree mutations in frameworks like Jetpack Compose.
Mobile OS Performance Design 6 — Two Types of Optimization Goals for Technical Metrics: Distinguishing between “extreme optimization” problems and “stable range” optimization problems. Choosing the right objective is critical for selecting the appropriate technical strategy.
JetBrains Terminal Releases New Architecture: Android Studio to Get a New Terminal Again: JetBrains re-refactors its terminal in version 2025.1 to focus on compatibility and AI-driven command generation.
D-VSync Rendering Display Pipeline Optimization for Mobile Systems: Introducing Decoupled VSync (D-VSync), an optimization that separates rendering from display to solve jank caused by load fluctuations.
App Prediction Framework — Based on Android S: Analysis of the core mechanisms and TensorFlow-based model training for predicting user app launches on Android 12.
LWN: Measures to Reduce TLB Pressure!: On Rik van Riel’s session regarding transparent huge pages (THP) and mTHP to optimize memory access performance.
Logarithms and the Base of Natural Logarithms: A historical look at John Napier’s logarithm tables and their impact on early modern astronomy.
DRM (Digital Rights Management) Ecosystem and Architecture Introduction: How Widevine and secure transmission layers ensure content protection for streaming platforms.
Linux | Q&A on CPU Frequency Scaling.
Understanding VSync Series (Parts 1-4): A comprehensive deep dive covering software VSync models, registration callbacks, Native-Java connections, and the application request/receive lifecycle.
Technical Briefing 2025 Issue 4: Focusing on higher-level concepts of file formats like ELF and DEX rather than just the bytes.
Fighting Magic with Magic: Analyzing and Restoring Obfuscated VMs: Reverse engineering methodologies for de-virtualizing app protection schemes.
Dart Single-Threaded Async Model: From Principles to Engineering Practice: Understanding the dual-queue event loop and avoiding CPU-bound bottlenecks with task slicing.
Conditional Sourcing in Android.bp: Techniques for differential compilation across product lines in AOSP.
Improving Android Dev/Test Efficiency: What Should You Be Doing?.
Creating Auto-Scrolling Video Carousels in Compose.
Photo Picker and Media Privacy on Google Play.
Gemini in Android Studio for Businesses: Develop with Confidence: Security, organization-level control, and code assist standard/enterprise editions.
Flutter 2025 Product Roadmap.
Android 16 Feature: Notifications with Progress Bars.
CPU Scheduling Optimization for Android Apps: Setting thread priorities, real-time policies, and using cpusets for resource isolation.