Infinum Android - Understanding IPC in Android

In this article, we cover everything from what a process is in Android to how they communicate with each other. Along the way, we understand the sandboxing of a process and how Linux handles them.

This short article will discuss how you can conditionally add modifiers using sugar syntax. To achieve this, custom extensions are the only way. Initially, I’ll demonstrate what can be done without our extensions, followed by an exploration of how having these extensions can simplify your life.

At Google I/O 2024, we announced the upcoming June ‘24 Jetpack Compose release, packed with features designed to make Android development faster and easier, no matter what form factor you are building for. We also announced expanded Compose support across the ecosystem of Android devices. This post provides an overview of all the announcements, in case you missed any.

Coil is a powerful image loading library for Android that has been around for a while now. It’s known for its simplicity and ease of use, but it also has many advanced features that can be leveraged to make it even more powerful, which I recently ended up making use of.

Sometimes we’ll get questions from developers saying, “All I did was add this line of code, and I’m getting all these build errors. What did I forget? Do I need to add another dependency?” This often triggers a prolonged troubleshooting session trying to see how that line of code could result in those build errors, until somebody asks, “Did it build before you made any changes?” And then we learn, “Oh, I don’t know. I never tried.”