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August 20th, 2023

Articles & Tutorials

Kotlin and Java interoperability: Useful annotations

Marcin Moskała shows a couple of ways to improve the interoperability of your Kotlin code with Java.

Let Kotlin do the code for you — Part II: Retrofit and Proxy

André Oriani teaches how to create a simple version of Retrofit from scratch.

Unleashing Creativity with Custom Modifiers in Android Jetpack Compose

Elevate Your UI Design — From gradient backgrounds to interactive gestures, harness the power of custom modifiers with these techniques by Nirbhay Pherwani.

Enrich stylus and mouse experiences with hover

Cedric Ferry explores what stylus interactions look like and how to implement them in your Android apps.

The conflation problem of testing StateFlows

Updates to StateFlow value are always conflated, and Márton Braun looks at how this affects writing tests.

Accessible Graphs with Compose Part 3: Differentiating without Color

In this third part on accessible graphs, Eevis Panula covers differentiating data by other means than color.

Kotlin Exhaustive when

Donovan LaDuke considers the when keyword, a powerful control flow construct in Kotlin.

Appyx 2.0 — Gesture-driven navigation for Compose Multiplatform

Zsolt Kocsi writes about evolving the Appyx library further with the release of version 2.0 which includes a number of improvements.

Combining and Merging Flows for Reactive Programming

Nirbhay Pherwani dives into Combine, Merge, Zip and Transform functions for efficient flow management.

Conditionally Applying Modifiers for Dynamic UIs

Katie Barnett shares some tips and tricks with Compose Modifiers, especially when they're applied conditionally.

Improving Compose horizontal pager indicator

Alexandre Brunea shows how to take the existing Compose pages and indicators and improve them with support for many more pages.

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Libraries & Code

JsonTree

JsonTree is an Android library to display JSON data in Compose with syntax highlighting and more.

Appyx

Model-driven navigation + UI components with gesture control for Compose Multiplatform.

DoodleSketch

Experiments in doodling in compose. The drawing part works equally well in Android and in desktop compose

Videos & Podcasts