Android Weekly Issue 2025-15

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 2025/04/20

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

Mobile OS Performance Design 7 — Programming Paradigms as Preventive Optimization: Inspired by the “Bian Que brothers” parable, this article discusses how OS-level programming paradigms can constrain and guide application behavior for better systemic performance.
GPU Rendering Efficiency Optimization via Prediction Models: Exploring methods to predict GPU load for single and multi-app scenarios to improve task execution speed and reduce power consumption.
Performance Optimization: Recording Traces on Android Boot for Perfetto: A guide on how to capture boot-time traces even when ADB is unavailable.
Locating Online Bugs with Perf: A Case Study on Infinite Loops: Real-world debugging where perf helped identify a CPU-hogging dead loop in an online production workload.
ABR (Adaptive Bitrate) Technology and Algorithm Analysis: Analyzing how modern video players dynamically adjust quality to match network conditions.
AI Computing Democratization Part 8: The MLIR Compiler Infrastructure: Why technopolitical compromises prevented MLIR from breaking the CUDA monopoly despite its architectural elegance.
Efficient Native Debugging: How to Get Reliable Call Stacks (Perfetto, Simpleperf, VSCode).
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Linux | Misfit Task Migration: Optimizing scheduler behavior for heterogeneous and big.LITTLE CPU topologies, featuring MTK-specific customizations.
Android V App Cold Start (9) — Activity Lifecycle Scheduling: Detailed analysis of the transitions from creation to resumed state in Android 15/V.
NowInAndroid Architecture Disassembly (9): Re-examining the Design: Deep dive into the ForYou page, data streams, and modularization for testability.
MMKV Source Analysis: Why is High-Performance IO Essential?: Comparing MMKV (mmap) with SharedPreferences and understanding its compact data format.
Android Ad App Development: Boot-start, Lock-screen, and Always-on Screen Persistence.
Android App Memory Analysis and Optimization — Theory.
IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1 Released with K2 Mode as Default: Major performance gains for Kotlin analysis, navigation, and Kotlin 2.0 feature support.
Android Secondary Screen Recording Solutions.
Performance Optimization Suggestions for Jetpack Compose: Balancing declarative ease with rendering tree overhead.
The Fourth Beta of Android 16: Finalizing APIs for the 2025 Q2 release, covering 16KB pages and JobScheduler quotas.
New Android Vitals Metrics: Boosting App Performance & Battery Life: Targeting excessive wakelock behavior in collaboration with top OEMs like Samsung.
ICLR & CVPR 2025 Meituan Tech Team Retrospective.

Miscellaneous

Two Years in the USA: A reflection on adaptation, identity anxiety, and finding a life rhythm.
How To Remember Everything You Read With AI: Using LLMs to facilitate behavioral change and deep synthesis.
The Collingridge Dilemma of Large Models: The struggle between early-stage control and late-stage unintended consequences in AI.
Small/Micro Teams are the Future Trend: Leveraging AI to stay lean, flexible, and efficient.

AI

Vibe Coding Technical Whitepaper: Defining the era of “Atmosphere Programming” where AI does the heavy lifting while developers manage the “vibe.”
Deep Dive into MCP Protocol: Standardizing dynamic interaction between LLMs and external tools.
GPT-4.1: OpenAI’s Next Generation Foundation Model: 1M context length, improved visual understanding, and better pricing.
Mastering Claude Programming: Workflow Efficiency Tips.