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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,…

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Programming

Just Your Type: Variable Fonts In Compose

Variable Fonts are ready to use from Compose UI 1.3.0, for Android O and above. A variable font is a font that can be customized in multiple ways (or axis or…

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Programming

Compose Tooling

Compose allows you to build beautiful UIs quickly. Together with the Android Studio tooling support, you’re able to accelerate the development process even further with faster iteration and better debugging.…

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Compose Toolkit

In the previous MAD Skills Compose Basics article, you learned about the building blocks of UI in Compose: composable functions. Now, it’s time to learn about the powerful toolkit of UI…

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8 min

Programming

Composable Functions

In the previous MAD Skills Compose Basics article, you learned how to think in Compose — you describe your UI in Kotlin as functions. No more XML needed! In this article,…

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4 min

Jetpack Compose: Debugging Recomposition

In this post, I wanted to show you how I looked into a performance issue in Jetsnack and how I went about debugging and fixing it in Jetpack Compose. This post is…

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Programming

Independent Versioning Of Jetpack Compose Libraries

Starting today, the various Jetpack Compose libraries will move to independent versioning schemes. This creates the possibility for sub-groups such as androidx.compose.compiler or androidx.compose.animation to follow their own release cycles. Allowing these libraries to be…

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5 min

Tech

Easing In To Easing Curves In Jetpack Compose

Learn how to create and use custom easing functions in Compose Everything that moves, accelerates, or decelerates — nothing starts or stops moving instantaneously. The ball you bounce on a…

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Programming

Diving Into Compose — Lessons Learned While Building Maps Compose

Interoperability and Compose API lessons learned while building Maps Compose This year we released the Maps Compose library, a Jetpack Compose library for adding Google Maps to your app. At its core,…

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