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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…

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Faster Jetpack Compose View Interop With App Startup And Baseline Profile

Jetpack Compose is designed to be interoperable with an existing View-based app. This enables you to take an incremental approach to migrating your existing app’s UI to Compose. While your app is…

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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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Migrating The AOSP QuickSearchBox App To Kotlin

Overview For the past three years, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) applications team has taken on the task of converting AOSP apps from Java to Kotlin. This pursuit was begun as…

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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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8 min

Deep Links Crash Course : Part 3 Troubleshooting Your Deep Links

Introduction What do you do when your Android App Links don’t work the way you want them to? There are many tools available from Google to help you, such as…

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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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8 min

The Deep Links Crash Course, Part 1: Introduction To Deep Links

I welcome you to the first installment of the deep links crash course series, where we’ll show a bit of context on what is a link, then we’ll go over…

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5 min

Programming

Get Familiar With Wear OS 3 (Without A Physical Device)

Wear OS has changed a lot over the last 8 years. It’s snappier, more efficient and includes a variety of UI surfaces for which you can develop. While strapping a…

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Illuminating Interactions: Visual State In Jetpack Compose

Faster Jetpack Compose View Interop With App Startup And Baseline Profile

Compose Tooling

Compose Toolkit

Migrating The AOSP QuickSearchBox App To Kotlin

Composable Functions

Deep Links Crash Course : Part 3 Troubleshooting Your Deep Links

Jetpack Compose: Debugging Recomposition

The Deep Links Crash Course, Part 1: Introduction To Deep Links

Get Familiar With Wear OS 3 (Without A Physical Device)

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