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Vaibhav Shakya
Vaibhav Shakya

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Things That Broke My Android App Last Year – and How I Fixed Them

Android apps rarely break because of one big bug.

They fail quietly — after SDK upgrades, background execution limits, OEM behavior changes, or dependency updates.

Over the last year, I ran into multiple real production issues such as:

  • Background work silently stopping
  • Lifecycle-related leaks with Kotlin Flow
  • Target SDK upgrades changing runtime behavior
  • Notifications failing without crashes on newer Android versions
  • CI builds breaking due to unmanaged dependencies
  • OEM-specific power management issues

This is not a rant — it’s a practical production post-mortem, written from an engineering and architecture perspective, with up-to-date fixes and real code examples.

👉 Read the full article on Medium:

https://medium.com/@vaibhav.shakya786/things-that-broke-my-android-app-last-year-and-how-i-fixed-them-420c2c37de27

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