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It’s been more than 6 years since I wrote an original version of this prime table generator. That was back at the very beginning of my coding career, after learning C and SDL in the first semester of university. An archived version of that original project is available here, including the sources, 120 lines of […]
In our previous article about Jetpack Compose, we shared our initial impressions and recommended some learning resources. This time, we’ll take Compose out for a spin by building a basic chat UI implementation with it! Stream now provides a native Jetpack Compose Chat SDK instead of the approach you see in this article. Check out […]
Android’s current UI toolkit is over 10 years old now… Do stop me if you’ve heard this before 😉 As you most certainly already know, Jetpack Compose is the hot new thing for Android UI development. Its promise is to save us by making all the pain points of the old View system and XML […]
I’ve seen this fancy clock on Reddit a few days ago. Seeing how I took this week to get started with Jetpack Compose, I figured it would be fun to attempt re-implementing that clock with our new Android UI toolkit. A couple hours ago, I’ve seen that Aurimas Liutikas already created a Compose implementation of […]
A Jetpack Compose by any other name 30 December 2020 I really like Jetpack Compose. Between work and personal stuff I have three projects which are each built on top of it. It’s great! So far my biggest problem is its name… but that requires some explaining. Welcome to one of the hills I’ll die […]
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 […]
Hi, We just open-sourced a project to learn Jetpack Compose for Android by Examples. Jetpack Compose is Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI. Project Link: Jetpack-Compose-Android-Examples You will be learning: How to build UI using Jetpack Compose in Android? How to display a Text and apply various styles to a Text? How to display […]
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 […]