Issue #657

January 12th, 2025
Android Weekly Updates
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Articles & Tutorials
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Jolanda Verhoef shows how to integrate the camera-compose APIs in your app and some of the delightful UI experiences that integration with Compose unlocks.
Marcin Moskała explains with clear examples how Compose UI modifiers work.
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Manpreet Kunnath creates a FilterChip dropdown selector in Jetpack Compose.
Enhance your app’s user experience with Dobri Kostadinov's simple and effective animation techniques in Jetpack Compose.
Jolanda Verhoef teaches using the Compose gesture system, graphics, and coroutines to implement a visual tap-to-focus.
Ignacio Carrión looks at how the SOLID principles form the foundation for building robust and scalable software.
Paul Blundell explains Lottie Dynamic Properties, a way of controlling different parts of your animation at runtime.
Mark Murphy considers using Material's design system for Compuse UI versus building your own.
Thomas Künneth examines the NOTES role in Android 14 which supports the note-taking feature and increases productivity of Android tablets.
Ioannis Anifantakis shows how using the channel type that suits your use case helps to create robust, scalable Android apps free from callback spaghetti.
In this first post, Benedict Pregler gives an overview of the cross-platform workflow architecture and what the API on the clients look like.
Libraries & Code
Aspecto is a grid layout that perfectly preserves each item's aspect ratio for the Jetpack Compose / Compose Multiplatform.
News
Google is making it easier for developers to create amazing smart home experiences for users, and for those users to enjoy seamless connectivity and interoperability across all their devices.
The Home APIs are now in Public Developer Beta for Android
Videos & Podcasts
Koin just Got Better! Configuration Navigation Simplified
To help you enhance Android Camera and Media experiences to be even more delightful for your users, this week we will be kicking off the Camera and Media Spotlight week!
Philipp Lackner teaches how to encrypt the content of DataStore Preferences, for example to safely store authentication tokens.
In this episode of Android Build Time, Christopher Cartland is joined by Caren Chang and Jordan de Hoog to discuss Media API insights.
Try the non-local break and continue feature today! Learn on how to enable it in Kotlin 2.1.
Learn what's new in the stable release of Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop (2024.2.2)!