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Google has said Play will require API level 37 in August 2027. Waiting is still not safe: seventeen behaviour changes fire the moment you target Android 17, and the SMS OTP delay alone can break a login flow
Manu Shukla 
India has 22 scheduled languages and 121 languages recorded in the 2011 Census. Translation APIs are cheap and commoditised. What actually breaks an Indic launch is text shaping, font selection and string handling
Manu Shukla 
A senior Android engineer's guide to making your app agent-ready in 2026: how AppFunctions and App Actions expose your features to Gemini, with Kotlin code, DPDP notes, and a rollout checklist.
Manu Shukla 
From 30 September 2026, unregistered Android apps stop installing in four countries across seven app stores. Here is what to check, what a D-U-N-S number costs you in lead time, and how to automate registration in CI.
Manu Shukla 
Indian agritech funding fell to $202 Mn across 36 deals in 2025 while AgriStack crossed 8.48 crore farmer IDs. The gap between those two numbers is where the buildable products are.
Manu Shukla 
Forced platform migrations are not a reason to rewrite an app. Five tests that separate the apps worth rebuilding from the ones that need targeted work, with the 2026 store deadlines that trigger the decision.
Manu Shukla 
Flutter froze all Material and Cupertino contributions in flutter/flutter on April 7, 2026. The libraries now live as material_ui and cupertino_ui on pub.dev, independently versioned. Flutter 3.44 still accepts the old
Manu Shukla 
The React Native talent pool runs roughly 10 to 15 times larger than Flutter's, and a senior US hire takes 4 to 8 weeks against 8 to 16 for Flutter. Performance is no longer the deciding variable: both frameworks clear
Manu Shukla 
React Native's New Architecture has been the default since 0.76 and the old bridge was removed in 0.82. With 43% faster cold starts but real migration work, here is when and how mobile teams should move to Fabric
Manu Shukla 
Swift 6.3 arrived on March 24, 2026 with the first official Swift SDK for Android. This guide covers how Swift runs on Android, the swift-java bridge, the shared-core architecture, and how it compares with Kotlin
Manu Shukla 
Apple confirmed at WWDC 2026 that its new Siri AI won't ship in the EU on iOS 27, blocked by the Digital Markets Act with no timeline. AI features now fragment by region. Five things CTOs building global apps must plan
Manu Shukla 