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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 […]
Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer Adaptive Spotlight Week With Android powering a diverse range of devices, users expect a seamless and optimized experience across their foldables, tablets, ChromeOS, and even cars. To meet these expectations, developers need to build their apps with multiple screen sizes and form factors in mind. Changing how […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Testing is vital for ensuring code reliability and correctness. Mocking frameworks are key in unit testing, enabling developers to create mock objects and define their behavior. This article explores two popular mocking frameworks: Mockito and MockK which are well-known libraries in unit testing, with Mockito tailored for Java and MockK for Kotlin. We will be […]
With the latest release of Jetpack Navigation 2.8.0, the type safe navigation APIs for building navigation graphs in Kotlin are stable 🎉. This means that you can define your destinations using serializable types and benefit from compile-time safety. This is great news if you’re using Jetpack Compose for your UI because it’s simpler and safer […]
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 […]