A Practical Guide to Google Perfetto: Why, Setup, Recording, and Deep Trace Analysis

If you have ever spent hours debugging a mysterious UI frame drop, an unpredictable app startup delay, or high CPU utilization, you know that log statements and simple timers only tell half the story. Modern operating systems and apps are deeply asynchronous. A lag spike in your app’s main thread could be caused by garbage collection, lock contention, CPU frequency throttling, or another background process starving your app of CPU cycles. ...

September 1, 2026 · Updated: September 14, 2026 · 9 min

Kotlin Resources

Official Docs doc Kotlin Docs Official Kotlin language reference kotlinlang.org/docs/home.html ↗ doc Kotlin Standard Library Full stdlib API reference kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/ ↗ Playlists Articles Tools tool Kotlin Playground Run Kotlin snippets in the browser play.kotlinlang.org ↗

August 15, 2026 · 1 min

Building a Reusable Speech-to-Text Component in Jetpack Compose

TL;DR - Why You Should Add Voice Input Voice input can dramatically improve UX, yet most apps don’t use it. Here’s why you should: ✅ Zero app size increase - Uses Android’s native speech recognition (no libraries!) ✅ No permissions required - Works out of the box ✅ 3-5x faster input - Users can speak 150+ words/min vs typing 40 words/min ✅ Better accessibility - Essential for users with motor impairments ✅ Reduces friction - One tap vs multiple keyboard interactions ✅ Professional polish - Shows attention to UX details ...

February 12, 2026 · Updated: April 24, 2026 · 16 min

Android ML Kit Document Scanner: Stop Using Camera Capture for Documents

TL;DR - Why ML Kit Document Scanner Changes Everything Stop building custom camera UIs for document capture. ML Kit Document Scanner gives you a professional, AI-powered document scanning experience with just a few lines of code: ✅ Automatic edge detection - AI finds document boundaries instantly ✅ Perspective correction - Automatically straightens skewed documents ✅ Shadow removal - Intelligent lighting correction ✅ Multi-page support - Scan multiple pages in one session ✅ Quality enhancement - Auto-adjusts contrast and brightness ✅ Minimal code - 10 lines vs 500+ for custom implementation ✅ Small library size - ~3MB vs building from scratch ...

February 10, 2026 · Updated: April 24, 2026 · 10 min