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Seeding a Room Database via ADB BroadcastReceiver in Kotlin

Real codebase

The code in this article is extracted directly from a production Kotlin Multiplatform personal finance app. All snippets reflect actual implementation, not simplified examples.

Manually tapping through a finance app to recreate accounts, transactions, budgets, and subscriptions every time you wipe the database is not a workflow. It is a tax on iteration speed. This post covers a BroadcastReceiver based database seeder for a Kotlin Multiplatform personal finance app that lets you populate Room entities with a single terminal command. Three non-obvious bugs make this harder than it looks all of them are covered here.

Android Project Docs with MkDocs, Dokka, and Firebase Hosting

Most Android projects ship without documentation. The few that have it rely on a Confluence page that is out of date by the time it is merged. This post covers the setup used in Unizonn Mobile v2: MkDocs Material for the documentation site, Dokka for generated API reference, Firebase Hosting for deployment, and a single GitHub Actions workflow that builds and ships everything on every PR targeting main or staging. The result is a live URL that reviewers can open from a pull request without cloning anything.