Google’s Contacts app created a new widget 25% faster using Jetpack Glance

Contacts developers aim to make the app an easy way for users to connect with the people who matter most to them. To make connecting even simpler, the Contacts engineering team built an entirely new widget from scratch using Jetpack Glance, Android’s latest framework for designing and developing widgets.

According to Data.ai, the pandemic accelerated existing mobile habits – with app categories like finance growing 25% year-over-year and users spending over 100 billion hours in shopping apps. It's now even more important that data is protected so that bad actors can't access the information.

Working on Android with currencies is fairly easy. There are built-in components that tell what is the default currency for our device, currency formatters, etc. Displaying currencies is easy. However, I have stumbled upon a challenge working on a new app feature.

In this blog post, I’ll cover how to think about View APIs from the Compose perspective, and how you can wrap existing View-based libraries in Compose.

Meta and Google have been using stacking for closer to a decade: a coding workflow that is very efficient for small PRs. So what is stacking, and how come it’s not more widespread in the industry?