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August 13th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Writing Swift-friendly Kotlin Multiplatform APIs — Part VI

André Oriani teaches how to code libraries that your teammates will not frown upon using them. In this chapter: enums and sealed classes.

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A glimpse of K2 in nowinandroid

K2 is the new front end for the Kotlin compiler. Iñaki Villar shares the results of using it in the "nowinandroid" project.

Compose Multiplatform — managing UI State on iOS

Guilherme Delgado explores techniques to update your Compose-driven UI, particularly when employing it to share layouts with iOS.

Simple APIs are elegant APIs

Ryan Harter examines the elegance of the javax.inject.Provider interface.

State Holders in Jetpack Compose

Donovan J. LaDuke examines a pattern to clarify and streamline the state so that we can treat it as a single stream of data.

Tabbed Navigation for Android TV using Jetpack Compose

Joe Birch explores the additional APIs built specifically for TV experience apps, how we can use them, and why they should be used over the traditional TabRow composable APIs.

Add Shake Animations to your Composable

sinasamaki looks into how to build a system to easily create unique shake animations using a custom Modifier.

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Jobs

Staff Software Engineer, Android (Remote- United States)

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Libraries & Code

ohteepee

A Simple, Customizable, Easy-to-use OTP/Pin Jetpack Compose Library

jetpack-compose-ui-arch-plugin

Jetpack Compose UI Architecture Plugin provides a set of templates that to make the development of new Jetpack Compose features faster.

live-plugin

IntelliJ plugin for writing IntelliJ plugins at runtime

kotlin-explorer

Desktop tool to quickly explore disassembled Kotlin code.

compose-look-and-feel

Compose Multiplatform UI components for iOS (Cupertino Widgets) and more.

ClockYou

Powerful clock app using Material Design 3 (You) and Jetpack Compose

News

Jetpack WindowManager 1.1 is stable!

Jetpack WindowManager is one of the most important libraries for optimizing your Android app for different form factors. This release is a major milestone that includes a number of new features and improvements.

Introducing Jetpack Emoji Picker: A New Way to Add Emojis to Your Android App

You can simply add a few lines of code to your app, and you'll be able to start using emojis right away.

Compose for Wear OS and Tiles 1.2 libraries are now stable

Version 1.2 of Compose for Wear OS and Wear Tiles libraries have reached the stable milestone with a number of new features.

What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’23 release

As part of the Compose August ‘23 Bill of Materials, Google released version 1.5 of Jetpack Compose. This release largely focuses on performance improvements, as major parts of the modifier refactor are now merged.

Android 14 Beta 5

With the official release of Android 14 only weeks away, Google has released Beta 5, the last scheduled update in our Android 14 beta program.

Choosing the right storage experience

Android 14 introduces a new feature called Selected Photos Access, and with the release fast approaching, developers should test to make sure their apps continue to work correctly.

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Android 14 introduces first-of-its-kind cellular connectivity security features

Android 14 introduces support to disable 2G support in a managed device fleet and also introduces a feature that disables support for null-ciphered cellular connectivity.

Tools

Jetpack Compose UI Architecture Templates

Jetpack Compose UI Architecture Plugin provides a set of templates that to make the development of new Jetpack Compose features faster

Videos & Podcasts

LivePlugin with Dmitry Kandalov

Nicola Corti hosts Dmitry Kandalov, the author of LivePlugin. With LivePlugin you can easily create IDE Plugins for IntelliJ (and other JetBrains IDEs) in the blink of an eye,

5 common code patterns slowing down your app

Anastasia Matveeva, Brian Cooley, and Scarlett Iu will explore factors like thread queues, suboptimal main thread usage, unnecessary UI dependencies, late scheduling of network requests, sequential execution of network requests, timer dependency, and legacy code.

Bottom App Bars - UX With Material3

Philipp Lackner teaches about Bottom App Bars in Material3, how you can add menu items and a floating action button to it. Furthermore, he talks about all UX best practices.

Step-by-Step Guide to Publish your Android Library!

Charfaoui Younes explains the step-by-step process of setting up Maven Publishing and utilizing GitHub Packages to make your library accessible to other developers.

Android Studio Giraffe, K2 compiler, and Jetpack Compose Live Edit

Covering the stable release of Android Studio Giraffe, updates on the new K2 compiler, and Jetpack Compose Live Edit.

Getting started with Firebase Authentication on Android

In this video, Marina will walk you through how to get started with Firebase Authentication in an Android app that was built with Jetpack Compose.

Compose Multiplatform on iOS in Production at Instabee

In this episode, hear from Instabee engineers who use Compose Multiplatform on iOS in Production.

Building a Compose Multiplatform App

Mohamad Rejeb is starting a series on building a Compose Multiplatform app from scratch. This playlist will contain all the presentations in the series.

Specials

The Power of Default

In this blog post, Eevis Panula discusses who is default and who is not, the defaults in tech, and finally, using the default for good.