Over the last few years, Android™ development has gone through significant changes in how apps are structured, the language used for development, the tooling & libraries that speed up our development, and the improvements in testing apps. What didn’t change in all these years is the Android UI toolkit. This changes with Jetpack Compose — […]
The Jetpack Compose UI toolkit for Android now supports the Desktop with the possibility of more platforms. Jetpack Compose, the new UI toolkit for Android, that is currently in an Alpha stage, has made it’s way over to Desktop App development. The same UI toolkit used for Android application development can now be used for […]
Jetpack Compose is an intriguing library but is not without concerns. The Jetpack Compose library provides the ability to create declarative and reactive UIs written in Kotlin for Android. It’s another attempt to avoid XML layout files by allowing the creation of layouts in a DSL-esque manner. The library borrows heavily from cross-platform application frameworks […]