Crash Course on the Android UI Layer | Part 2

This blog post series aims to summarise the Android Developer guidance on the UI layer. We’ll explore all the entities involved in it, understand the role each part plays, and discuss best practices.

Android and Google Play have continuously evolved to provide more flexibility and choice in response to feedback from developers and regulators, as well as intense competition from Apple and app stores across the open Android ecosystem.

In this article, we will create a bottom navigation bar in a glassmorphic design style. We will do this using the new Haze library by Chris Banes. This library enables us to easily blur the backdrop of a Composable, meaning anything behind the element will be visible, but blurry.

This article provides an overview of key Gradle tasks, including clean, lint, test, connectedTest, assemble, bundle, build, and check, explaining their functions and when to use them.

There have been recent articles responding to Microsoft deprecating its Mixed Reality functionality and the general continued reduction in Mixed Reality efforts and investment. This comes as not surprise to many, with Microsoft recently vastly reducing its Mixed Reality team, throwing doubt on their desire to want to continue to innovate and be relevant in this space.