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Posted by Rebecca Franks – Developer Relations Engineer This blog post is part of our series: Adaptive Spotlight Week where we provide resources—blog posts, videos, sample code, and more—all designed to help you adapt your apps to phones, foldables, tablets, ChromeOS and even cars. You can read more in the overview of the Adaptive Spotlight […]
12 min read · Sep 22, 2024 Jetpack Compose’s animation API is both powerful and enjoyable to work with. And when combined with the graphicsLayer() and drawing modifiers, it really open up possibilities for creating some really cool animations. In this article, we’ll dive into exactly that by exploring how to create the following loading […]
In a few recent projects, I’ve needed to utilise Google Maps within environments utilising Jetpack Compose. In the early days of Compose this felt light a sought-after piece of functionality – even though it is still being built on, it now seems to be in a place where I can confidently use it. In this […]
Thanks for all your feedback from using the alphas to help bring Compose for TV to the stable release! It’s terrific that you’ve been using Compose in your TV apps — then you’ve seen how Compose is the best way to build user interfaces across all form factors in Android and how it simplifies and […]
In a few recent projects, I’ve needed to utilise Google Maps within environments utilising Jetpack Compose. In the early days of compose this felt light a sought after piece of functionality – even though it is still being built on, it now seems to be in a place where I can confidently use it. In […]
12 min read · Aug 27, 2024 The article aims to show how to handle parameters of compose functions and use @PreviewParameter in Jetpack Compose UI. For any concerns about the article, contact me here. 🤝 The image has been created by Caner Kaşeler. I create a basic Android application with only Jetpack Compose in […]
The new strong skipping mode for controlling class stability in Jetpack Compose changes how to optimize recompositions in your app. In this blog post, we’ll cover what cases it solves for you and what needs to be manually controlled. We’ll also cover common questions you’ve had, such as whether remembering lambda functions is still needed, […]
In a recent blog post I took a look at the new Compose Preview Screenshot Testing Tool, provided by Google as a way to enable developers to easily write screenshot tests for their composable UI. When it comes to screenshot testing, writing these tests only represents one part of the process – we also need […]
KotlinConf happened on May 22nd. Did you miss a Kotlin announcement? Check out the blog post Google @ KotlinConf 2024: A Look Inside Multiplatform Development with KMP and more from Murat. This covered Google’s recent contributions to the Kotlin ecosystem, such as Jetpack library support, tooling, and most importantly, Kotlin Multiplatform! You can also find […]
As we migrate our apps to Jetpack Compose, we need to ensure that all existing functionality remains intact. This means that not only the way our UI looks, but the way that it behaves when users interact with it. When recently migrating part of an app to Jetpack Compose, I experienced a broken coordinator layout […]