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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 […]
Let me remind you what the initial issue was. We don’t get a confirmation window after user grants install permission. It’s not guaranteed that this issue presents itself only on Android TV, we should think of it as a general possibility. So let’s somehow check whether the confirmation was or wasn’t present. How do we […]
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 […]
This article considers my first experience with Kotlin MultiPlatform(KMP) as a basis of my impression, thoughts and aspirations for the technology. Critical factors in this consideration include the starter guide provided by JetBrains, the resulting multi-platform mobile app, the architecture of the mobile app project and my feel after going through that process. First things […]
Using Android 15 new ApplicationStartInfo Android 11 introduced ApplicationExitInfo, from which you can get historical reasons why the app was turned off / killed. Android 15 implemented new ApplicationStartInfo can be used to analyze the causes of why and how the app was launched. With both kinds of data, you can track how the users […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
At Google I/O 2024, one of the announcements that caught my eye was support for Compose Preview Screenshot Testing using the Compose Preview Screenshot Testing tool. Even though this is still in an experimental state, I couldn’t wait to dive in and have a play with this! My new book, CI/CD for Android using GitHub […]
As of Compose Foundation 1.7.0-alpha07, the ClickableText composable has been marked as deprecated, with plans for it to be removed come 1.8.0. ClickableText is often used to handle URLs within text – while the composable handles the click event, we are still required to manually provide styling attributes via annotated strings. To replace ClickableText, we […]