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Programming

Illuminating Interactions: Visual State In Jetpack Compose

An important responsibility of any design system is making it clear what components can and cannot be interacted with, and letting users know when an interaction has taken place. This blog post will explain how to listen to user interactions in Jetpack Compose, and create reusable visual indications that can be applied across your application for a consistent and responsive user experience. Why visual feedback is important Compare the following two UIs: A lack of visual feedback can result in an app feeling slow or ‘laggy’, and results in a less aesthetically pleasing user experience. Providing meaningful feedback for different…

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Pixel 7a: Built To Perform, Packed With Value

Pixel 7a is available for purchase now, bringing advanced hardware and software capabilities at an accessible price. Meet Google Pixel 7a, our latest A-Series phone that delivers all the helpfulness of Google for less. It’s built with Google Tensor G2, our flagship processor, and Titan M2, our dedicated security chip, making it faster, more efficient and more secure.1 Pixel 7a is packed with many of the must-have features of our premium phones that are now available on an A-series phone for the first time — like Face Unlock, 8GB of RAM, an up to 90Hz Smooth Display and wireless charging. Pixel…

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Meet The New Google Pixel Tablet That’s Helpful In Your Hands And At Home

Built with the latest Android features, our Google Tensor G2 chip, and our Pixel design. Say hello to the Google Pixel Tablet, designed to be helpful 24/7 in your hand and in your home. It’s built with the latest Android features, our Google Tensor G2 chip and our iconic Pixel design. Here’s a look at what’s in the new tablet and all the reasons why you won’t leave this device forgotten in a drawer. A premium tablet built for all your entertainment needs With a brilliant 11-inch display and four built-in speakers for crisp audio, the tablet is the perfect entertainment…

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Introducing Pixel Fold: Google’s First Foldable Phone

Whether open or closed, there are endless ways of having fun and getting things done. Google Pixel Fold is now available for pre-order and will begin shipping next month. Our new foldable phone combines the helpfulness of Pixel with a design that unfolds into a compact tablet, unlocking even more ways for you to use your device. And it’s all powered by our Google Tensor G2 chip, which also makes Pixel Fold fast and secure. Here’s a look at the newest addition to our Pixel portfolio. A thin, durable design When closed, Pixel Fold has a familiar smartphone silhouette that fits in…

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Learn About Google Cloud’s Updated Renderer For The Maps SDK For Android

We’re always looking for ways to improve your Google Maps Platform development experience on Android, so we’ve been working on an updated renderer for the Maps SDK for Android to give you access to more features and better performance. Thanks to those developers who opted in to use our updated renderer back in October 2021. Your feedback on what worked well and what needed improvement was implemented in the latest version ready for you to try out now. The upgraded map renderer is available as of version 18.0.0 of the Maps SDK for Android. We encourage you to opt-in to…

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Programming

The Shape Of Things To Come

Creating and animating rounded shapes with AndroidX, Part I A new library with the flashy name :graphics:graphics-shapes: launched recently in AndroidX. I’m happy (especially after many months of working on it with my colleague Sergio Sancho from the Android Wear team) that this project and API is finally out there. But I thought it might be helpful to describe what it is and how to actually use it. There are two major parts to the library, which internally we call Shapes and Morph. For the benefit of short-attentions-span Medium readership, I will therefore break the description of the library down into two articles along similar lines. This…

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Programming

Shape Morphing In Android

In the previous article, I showed how to use the new AndroidX :graphics:graphics-shapes: library that Sergio Sancho and I recently released to create and draw rounded polygonal shapes. Making it easier to create those kind of shapes was part of what we wanted to accomplish… but it wasn’t our main goal. What we really wanted to do was to make it easier to automatically animate (aka, “morph”) between those shapes. Spoiler alert: Now you can. Welcome to Part II of this series, in which I’ll show how to use this new library to do just that: create and draw morph animations on rounded shapes. Easily.…

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Android Studio Flamingo Is Stable

Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Flamingo🦩: The official IDE for building Android apps! This release includes improvements to help you build pixel-perfect UI with Live Edit, new features that assist with inspecting your app, IntelliJ updates, and more. Read on or watch the video to learn more about how Android Studio Flamingo🦩 can help supercharge your productivity and download the latest stable version today! UI Tools Jetpack Compose and Material 3 templates – Jetpack Compose is now recommended for new projects so the templates use Jetpack Compose and Material 3 by default. Live Edit (Compose) experimental – Iteratively…

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Compose For Wear OS 1.1 Is Now Stable: Check Out New Features!

Today we’re releasing version 1.1 of Compose for Wear OS, our modern declarative UI toolkit to help developers build beautiful, responsive apps for Wear OS. Since the first stable release earlier this year, we have seen many developers taking advantage of the powerful tools and intuitive APIs to make building their app simpler and more efficient. Todoist and Outdooractive are some of the developers that rebuilt their Wear apps with Compose and accelerated the delivery of a new, functional user experience. Todoist increased its growth rate by 50% since rebuilding their app for Wear 3 and Outdooractive reduced development time by 30% and saw a significant…

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Introducing The Architecture Templates

We released a new project on Github called Android Architecture Starter Templates. The goal of these templates is to get you started quickly when doing an experiment or starting a brand-new app from scratch. They follow the new Architecture recommendations that we released recently, which are a summary of the official Architecture guide. These templates are not empty, they contain some opinions in the form of architectural patterns and used libraries: Room Database Dependency injection with Hilt Jetpack ViewModel UI using Jetpack Compose and Material3 Jetpack Navigation Reactive data layer Kotlin Coroutines and Flow Unit tests UI tests using fake data with Hilt KTS gradle files Version catalog A simple…

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