New York, NY
Kevin Galligan
Engineer, engineering leader, and founder. I've been building Android since before there were Android phones, and spent the years since running a mobile consultancy, leading teams, and shipping a whole lot of open source libraries and tooling for the KMP ecosystem. Currently focused on how AI will change mobile development.
Recent writing & talks
(06) 09/2026 AI Changes the Math on Native Mobile Once a feature exists on one platform, an agent can build it on the other. That breaks the platform silo, turns feature parity into something you monitor, and erodes the case for cross-platform frameworks. Shopify's move back to native makes the same argument. 07/2026 Native Mobile and AI - droidcon USA 2026 My droidcon USA 2026 talk. Coding agents have arrived on mobile, and mobile is a special case for one reason: two apps do the same thing. 39 min watch 09/2024 Android Faithful - Interview with Kevin Galligan of Touchlab - droidcon NYC A short interview at droidcon NYC 2024, covering ten years of running the conference, how Android development changed over that decade, and what Kotlin Multiplatform is for people who aren't developers. 18 min watch 09/2024 The Future of Android, Kotlin, and Everything - droidcon New York 2024 The droidcon NYC 2024 keynote. Ten years of the conference, why native consolidated instead of dying, and the case for Compose Multiplatform as a default rather than an option. 44 min watch 09/2024 Modern KMP adoption for native mobile teams - droidcon New York 2024 My second talk at droidcon NYC 2024. Adding some KMP is easy and most teams succeed. Scaling it is hard and most teams fail — and the reasons are about workflow and people, not tooling. 47 min watch