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A generated file is an input, not a place to put decisions. Whatever you write there has a lifetime bounded by the next regeneration, and that regeneration arrives inside somebody else's unrelated pull request. Hold the exception in code the generator cannot reach, and point the guard at the upstream source of truth rather than the artifact.
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Offline-First KMP
When your mobile app must work without internet as a standard, not an edge case, the sync layer is just the first decision. What comes after — preserving user intent offline, trusting a "success" your server never actually confirmed, resolving conflicts as a human decision — is where offline-first actually gets hard. Field notes from a production KMP winery app.
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Your API key is not a secret
We have been hiding API keys in Android apps for a decade — with BuildConfig tricks, NDK, obfuscation libraries. None of it works. The fix is not better hiding; it is treating the key as a public identifier and proving the app is genuine instead.
Share iOs string resources with Android
There might be a requirement for mobile string resources to be defined or adjusted by management or copywriters. There also might be a requirement to add localization later by those roles. And on top of that strings should be synced across platforms.