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16 min

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…

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12 min

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…

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3 min

Experimenting With Jetpack Glance

We’re happy to announce that the new Jetpack Glance framework, which lets you build app widgets and wear tiles with Jetpack Compose-like code, has reached alpha-04. We also just released a standalone experimental…

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8 min

Programming

Jetpack Compose Interop: Using Compose In A RecyclerView

TL;DR RecyclerView 1.3.0-alpha02 and Compose UI 1.2.0-beta02 bring out-of-the-box performant usage of composables from RecyclerView — no extra code required! If you had previously implemented our guidance for Compose in RecyclerView, you should…

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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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8 min

Programming

Measure And Improve Performance With Macrobenchmark

Introduction to Jetpack Macrobenchmark and Baseline Profiles Are you thinking about optimizing your app’s performance, but don’t know where to start? Or have you optimized the performance and wonder if…

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5 min

Using Performance Class To Optimize Your User Experience

Today we’re launching the Jetpack Core Performance library in alpha. This library enables you to easily understand what a device is capable of, and tailor your user experience accordingly. It does this by…

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6 min

Demystifying Jetpack Glance For App Widgets

We recently announced the first Alpha version of Glance, initially with support for AppWidgets and now for Tiles for Wear OS. This new framework is built on top of the Jetpack Compose runtime and designed to make…

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4 min

Programming

DataStore And Dependency Injection

In the following posts from our Jetpack DataStore series, we will cover several additional concepts to understand how DataStore interacts with other APIs, so that you’ll have everything at your disposal…

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4 min

Convert YUV To RGB For CameraX ImageAnalysis

CameraX is a Jetpack support library that is built to help make camera app development easier. It supports different use cases such as ImageCapture, Preview and ImageAnalysis, which could seamlessly combine…

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Jetpack

Illuminating Interactions: Visual State In Jetpack Compose

The Shape Of Things To Come

Experimenting With Jetpack Glance

Jetpack Compose Interop: Using Compose In A RecyclerView

Easing In To Easing Curves In Jetpack Compose

Measure And Improve Performance With Macrobenchmark

Using Performance Class To Optimize Your User Experience

Demystifying Jetpack Glance For App Widgets

DataStore And Dependency Injection

Convert YUV To RGB For CameraX ImageAnalysis

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