Newsletter Issue Archives

• Issue #273: Android Makers! Accessibility focus and keyboard focus! FABs and FAMs! PWAs! (2025-07-15)
• Issue #272: Compose BOMs! Wear Compose and Compose Multiplatform updates! Nav3! ExoPlayer! Datatables! And… can we transmogrify Compose for Android into Compose Multiplatform?!? (2025-07-08)
• Issue #271: Nav3! Autofill! Server-side rendering! And… Compose alpha BOM, where were you?!? (2025-07-01)
• Issue #270: Compose production and beta releases! Compose Multiplatform patch! TextFieldState! Nav3! Androidify! Rive! And… can we go edge-to-edge on iOS?!? (2025-06-24)
• Issue #269: Compose Multiplatform! Server-defined UI! OpenGL in Compose Multiplatform! Collecting signatures! And… can we start off with a bit of focus?!? (2025-06-17)
• Issue #268: Compose and Compose Multiplatform alphas! Material3 Expressive! Lottie testing! Cross-platform ripples! And… now can we pick a peck of pickle photos?!? (2025-06-10)
• Issue #267: Navigation for Compose! What’s new in Compose! Accessibility testing! Snackbars and channels! Overscroll! And… can we tie a ribbon on it?!? (2025-06-03)
• Issue #266: Google I/O 2025! KotlinConf 2025! Compose and Compose Multiplatform updates! Motion physics in Material3 Expressive! (2025-05-27)
• Issue #265: Compose Multiplatform 1.8.0! Compose 1.8.1 and 1.9.0-alpha02! And this issue is a bit short, but there’s a reason for that… (2025-05-20)
• Issue #264: DI in previews! LinkAnnotation! Composable visibility! Drag and drop! And… do choosy developers still choose GIF?!? (2025-05-06)
• Issue #263: Compose 1.8.0 released! First 1.9.0 alpha! Tooltips! Paths! Tables! And… is Modifier.Node too complicated?!? (2025-04-29)
• Issue #262: Paging! Accessibility! Tooltips! Effects! And… Amazon has another app platform?!? (2025-04-22)
• Issue #261: Compose RC! Compose Multiplatform beta! Cameras and tabletops! Effect handlers! YouTube players! Other types of media players! And… are screenshot tests worth it?!? (2025-04-15)
• Issue #260: Wrapping! Wrapping! More wrapping! Optimizing composables! Optimizing Hot Reload! JSON Forms! LiveKit! (2025-04-08)
• Issue #259: Compose RC! Media3! animateBounds()! Custom modifiers using Modifier.Node! Rich text editing! And… is this UI useless?!? (2025-04-01)
• Issue #258: Compose Multiplatform beta! Accessibility! Hot reload! BringIntoViewSpec! And… does this hash seem blurry?!? (2025-03-25)
• Issue #257: Compose RC! States and flows! Accessibility! Dialogs! Dropdowns! Callouts! Lazy tabs! And… did you bump my composable?!? (2025-03-18)
• Issue #256: Compose beta! Compose Multiplatform alpha! Hot reload! Mesh gradients! Strong skipping! Permissions! And… what happens if our desktop goes dark?!? (2025-03-11)
• Issue #255: Viewmodels and previews! TV Compose! A safer marquee! Server-defined UIs! And… do I have a right to be forgotten?!? (2025-02-25)
• Issue #254: New Compose and Compose Multiplatform! Focus! Accordion animations! Skeuomorphic design! Detecting idle users! And… somebody sunk my Fleet?!? (2025-02-18)
• Issue #253: ModalBottomSheet! Composable API design! MapKit in Compose Multiplatform! Shimmer! TV focus! And… what is androidx.media3:media3-ui-compose?!? (2025-02-11)
• Issue #252: Compose patch! Compose beta!! Testing! PullToRefreshBox()! Map markers! Figma plugins! And… bubble wrap?!? (2025-02-04)
• Issue #251: Compose Multiplatform update! Camera! Google Pay! Screenshot testing! Video playback! And… Windows 95 with Compose?!? (2025-01-28)
• Issue #250: 250th issue! A new Compose alpha! Performance! Composition locals! CameraX! Composable code generation! Multiplatform previews! (2025-01-21)
• Issue #249: CameraX in Compose! Centering! Circuit! Aspect-aware grids! Editors! And, why is my font rendering differently across platforms?!? (2025-01-14)
• Issue #248: Responsive grids! Styled strings! Design systems! Pickers! Render composables to PDFs! And… this then or this?!? (2025-01-07)
• Issue #247: Scaffold panes! Weights and FlowRow()! TV Compose! PDF rendering! Drop shadows! And… is it time to take action?!? (2024-12-31)
• Issue #246: Compose Multiplatform update! Type-safe navigation! Camera! Hot reload! @Preview generator! And… a library of libraries?!? (2024-12-24)
• Issue #245: Compose and Wear Compose alphas! Tom Colvin on camera apps! Kevin Schildhorn on multiplatform adaptive layouts! And… do we really want to know what the “X” is in “Android XR”?!? (2024-12-17)
• Issue #244: A Compose Multiplatform alpha! Hot reload! Presentation! Sprites! Calendars! (2024-12-10)
• Issue #243: Rebecca Franks on clipping and masking! Stefano Natali on graphicsLayer()! FunkyMuse on type-safe nav results! And… if we have enough maps, do we need to store our maps in a Map?!? (2024-12-03)
• Issue #242: Math! Shared element transitions! Custom modifiers! Macrobenchmark! Adapting to platform-specific design systems! And… why does wrapContentSize() not wrap my content size?!? (2024-11-26)
• Issue #241: Compose alphas! Compose Multiplatform patch! PaddingValues! Graphics layers! Swiping! Heatmaps! Navigation! And… why did we get a new production Compose BOM?!? (2024-11-19)
• Issue #240: @cbruegg@mastodon.green on Compose 1.7 and compatibility! @eevis@mas.to on rendering text in a Canvas! @sinasamaki@androiddev.social and a centered slider! @touchlab@mastodon.social with a Compose-Swift bridge! And… is NavigationSuiteScaffold() FAB?!? (2024-11-12)
• Issue #239: Compose patch release! Compose alpha! 2025 Compose Multiplatform plans! Glance! Side panels! @theapache64@androiddev.social on performance! Tables! And… reacting to a broadcast from a composable?!? (2024-11-05)
• Issue #238: Relay! Paparazzi! droidcon Lisbon 2024! Server-defined UI! And… desktop OS trays?!? (2024-10-29)
• Issue #237: Compose patch! Compose alpha! Compose Multiplatform stable! droidcon NYC! Adaptive UIs! MVI! HTML conversions! Math rendering! And… are we now Fluent in Compose?!? (2024-10-22)
• Issue #236: Alpha and beta BOMs! Compose Multiplatform UI testing! Compose Multiplatform camera apps! Passing data between screens in Navigation for Compose! JSON rendering! (2024-10-15)
• Issue #235: New Compose BOM! A new Compose alpha! A new Compose Multiplatform RC! @hitherejoe@androiddev.social on map markers! @skydoves@androiddev.social on CMP! @oreillyj@mastodon.social on Circuit for CMP! And… why is Ink not Compose?!? (2024-10-08)
• Issue #234: Lazy grids! Focus! @colinmarsch@androiddev.social on CMP accessibility! @skydoves@androiddev.social on Landscapist! @sinasamaki@androiddev.social on Slider()! And… what is it?!? (2024-10-01)
• Issue #233: A Compose security fix and a new alpha! clipToBounds()! Localization! offset()! @skydoves@androiddev.social on server-defined UI! Bottom sheets! And… someone set us up 3 BOMs?!? (2024-09-24)
• Issue #232: Compose 1.7.1 and Compose Multiplatform 1.7.0-beta02! Flow layouts! TV Compose! SharedBounds! Image cropping! And… why does remember() not seem always to remember?!? (2024-09-17)
• Issue #231: Compose 1.7.0! Wear Compose 1.4.0! droidcon Berlin 2024! Circular layouts! TextDirection! Carousels! And… will we someday go 3D and have to deal with edge-to-edge-to-edge?!? (2024-09-10)
• Issue #230: @riggaroo@androiddev.social on shaders! @skydoves@androiddev.social on loading initial data! Previews! Custom design systems! Dynamic themes! And… when does Compose for Web make sense? (2024-09-03)
• Issue #229: New Compose BOM and RC! Stable TV Compose! Escaping fragments! @ZacSweers@hachyderm.io on building CMP apps! @wander1236@androiddev.social and Material You for CMP! And… there is a security issue with Navigation for Compose?!? (2024-08-27)
• Issue #228: @riggaroo@androiddev.social on Brush! @skydoves@androiddev.social on writing good previews! rememberCoroutineScope()! A seemingly infinite number of icons! And AGSL shaders… across platforms?!? (2024-08-20)
• Issue #227: 1.7.0-beta07! Compose Multiplatform state management! Compose Multiplatform navigation! Compose Multiplatform biometrics! And even more Compose Multiplatform stuff! (2024-08-13)
• Issue #226: Customizing text overflow! Composable refactoring! Nested scrolling! Adaptive layouts! Lottie! System bars! And… how do previews work, anyway?!? (2024-08-06)
• Issue #225: Compose betas! Compose Multiplatform alpha! @accessiblemobileapps@mastodon.green on Compose accesibility! Layout animations! Composable API design! Yandex Maps! And… JetBrains wants to tell us a story?!? (2024-07-30)
• Issue #224: Edge-to-edge! @skydoves@androiddev.social on performance! @zachklipp@androiddev.social on derivedStateOf()! @luboganev@androiddev.social on swipe to dismiss! @eevis@mas.to on orientation! (2024-07-23)
• Issue #223: Compose beta! Adaptive layouts! @zachklipp@androiddev.social on restartable functions! Custom overscroll effects! A bunch of Compose Multiplatform libraries! And… why is my Popup() getting clipped?!? (2024-07-16)
• Issue #222: CMP 1.7.0 alpha! Strong skipping! Supporting panes! Nested type-safe nav! Multiplatform signatures! Maps for Compose 6.0.0! And… can a composable suspend?!? (2024-07-09)
• Issue #221: Compose betas! User selection widgets! @mubaraknative@androiddev.social on supporting larger screens! Screenshot testing! And… composing slides on Compose in Compose?!? (2024-07-02)
• Issue #220: KotlinConf 2024! DropDownMenu! MVI! Previews with lists! Multiplatform ConstraintLayout! Design systems! And… synchronized scroll states?!? (2024-06-25)
• Issue #219: Compose BOM and betas! Glance 1.1.0! @chrisarriola@androiddev.social on Jetcaster and Compose IO announcements! Composable API design! Tooltip-based onboarding! (2024-06-18)
• Issue #218: @eevis@mas.to on accessibility testing! @zsmb13@androiddev.social on modifier ordering! @seb@androiddev.social on animated gradient fills for text! And… hey, where did all the new libraries go?!? (2024-06-11)
• Issue #217: Compose and Wear Compose betas! @sinasamaki on Flipboard-style animations! @arnogiu@androiddev.social on Koin for Compose Multiplatform! iOS/Compose interop! MVI! And… structured fields without VisualTransformation?!? (2024-06-04)
• Issue #216: Compose for iOS! Compose previews, including screenshot testing! Compose Guard! @eliza@androiddev.social on animations! @shreyas@androiddev.social on Compose Compiler reports! And… I do get a little kelp! (2024-05-28)
• Issue #215: Google I/O 2024! Compose Compiler update! Compose beta! Glance RC! CameraX! Dagger! Coil3 for Multiplatform! Previews! Detecting performance regressions! And… can we get a little kelp?!? (2024-05-21)
• Issue #214: Compose Multiplatform RC! Navigation for Compose type safety! Compose Multiplatform and Compose Cupertino! Performance! Accordions! And… brownies?!? (2024-05-14)
• Issue #213: Compose Compiler, Compose, TV Compose, and Wear Compose updates! @ianlake@androiddev.social on official type-safe navigation args! LocalInspectionMode! Custom drop shadows! And… Compose Compiler is moving?!? (2024-05-07)
• Issue #212: @skydoves@androiddev.social on shared element transitions! Haptics! @eevis@mas.to on configurable accessibility! And… is Compose soiled?!? (2024-04-30)
• Issue #211: Compose BOM! Compose Compiler! Compose and Wear Compose alphas! Glance beta! Compose Multiplatform beta! @hitherejoe@androiddev.social on replacing ClickableText()! Nested lazy containers! Scaffolds! And… should we skip Skip?!? (2024-04-23)
• Issue #210: Compose Multiplatform 1.6.2! Hilt! Koin! Pinch-to-zoom for image grids! Compose Web apps! Multiplatform navigation! And… a trio of posts on Trio?!? (2024-04-16)
• Issue #209: Updates to Compose BOM, Compose alphas, Glance, Wear Compose, and more! Shapes! Compose Multiplatform! Focus as state! Reaction picker! And @svenjacobs@androiddev.social shows a segmented progress bar… in 50 lines of code?!? (2024-04-09)
• Issue #208: Localization! String resources! AirBnb Trios! Maps! Lazy list animations! Avatar lists! And… a gap?!? (2024-04-02)
• Issue #207: Compose BOM, Compiler, and Wear Compose updates! Dashed lines! @cb@androiddev.social on Circuit! @shreyas@androiddev.social on bitmap capturing! And… React hooks, in Compose?!? (2024-03-26)
• Issue #206: Compose BOM! Compose and Wear Compose alphas! @ricknout@androiddev.social on design systems! @eevis@mas.to on accessibility tests! Tap target previews! Auto-linking text! And… the return of And One More Thing?!? (2024-03-19)
• Issue #205: Compose Multiplatform 1.6.0! Detecting active scrolling! Strong skipping! Sticky grid headers! Rich media input! Multiplatform tables! And @riggaroo@androiddev.social brings us Mighty Morphin Power… Shapes?!? (2024-03-05)
• Issue #204: Compose Compiler! Compose BOM! Compose and Wear Compose alphas! The state of Compose! Test tags! Animated strikethroughs! Shimmers! And… why is my font borked?!? (2024-02-27)
• Issue #203: Compose Multiplatform RCs! State! Nested scrolling! @oreillyj@mastodon.social on Amper! Compose Cupertino! Compose… Hammer? And… we can memoize lambdas?!? (2024-02-20)
• Issue #202: Compiler 1.5.9! BOM 2024.02.00! New Glance libraries! @ericampire@androiddev.social on Circuit and Compose Multiplatform! Material3! Markdown! MVI! And… testing robots?!? (2024-02-13)
• Issue #201: A Compose Multiplatform survey and a patch! @eevis@mas.to on font scaling! Modal bottom sheet close confirmation! Compose Multiplatform resources! Draggable items in lazy lists! And… @alex_vanyo@androiddev.social talks to some Italians?!? (2024-02-06)
• Issue #200: It’s the 200th issue! Compose 1.6.0 and 1.7.0-alpha01! Wear Compose! OTP fields! Bottom sheet navigation! Chip fields! Compose Multiplatform updates! And… @lordcodes@androiddev.social is bar hopping?!? (2024-01-30)
• Issue #199: Optimizations! Animations! Passwords! Rich text editor! OTP! Toasts! And… how do we move from Jetpack Compose to JetBrains Compose?!? (2024-01-23)
• Issue #198: Compose Compiler 1.5.8! Compose 1.6.0-rc01! Wear Compose updates! derivedStateOf()! Edge-to-edge! Glassmorphism! Navigation! And… a fruit-flavored Compose theme and widget set?!? (2024-01-16)
• Issue #197: Skipping! BasicTextField2()! Decompose! Circular sliders! Segmented pickers! Showcases! RecyclerView! And… @riggaroo@androiddev.social is gone()?!? (2024-01-09)
• Issue #196: rememberUpdatedState()! BasicTextField2()! Immutability! semantics()! Atomic design! Drag-and-drop! And to an animated infinity loader… and beyond?!? (2024-01-02)
• Issue #195: Compose Compiler 1.5.7! Atomic state changes! Shapes and morphing! Compose-view interop! Navigation! ExoPlayer! Gauges! System bar control! (2023-12-26)
• Issue #194: Compose updates! Glance! @mlykotom@androiddev.social on composable performance! @eevis@mas.to on accessibility! Modifiers! Vector drawable converter! (2023-12-19)
• Issue #193: A Compose beta, and a Compose Material3 alpha! Detecting presses on words! @zsmb13@androiddev.social on Compose Multiplatform! Dynamic font scaling! Inner shadows! @skydoves@androiddev.social gives us a more flexible bottom sheet! And, we tell the Compose Compiler what we think is stable! (2023-12-05)
• Issue #192: Compose Multiplatform! @jw@jakewharton.com on Molecule! Bottom nav bars! Reorderable lists! KSP-based nav! And… using @Preview for custom views?!? (2023-11-28)
• Issue #191: Compose/Material3/Wear Compose updates! remember()! Adaptive layouts! Compose Multiplatform in 2024! @astamato@androiddev.social on BasicTextField2()! Compose Multiplatform charts! And… is TV Compose in trouble?!? (2023-11-21)
• Issue #190: Compose Compiler! BasicTextField2()! @riggaroo@androiddev.social and animations! Optimization! @hhariri@bird.makeup, JetBrains, and Fleet! JetBrains and plotting! And… we collapse?!? (2023-11-14)
• Issue #189: Compose Multiplatform! Chips in fields! Diffing! Custom fonts in Glance app widgets! Heatmaps! PIN input! And @cb@androiddev.social is in a bit of a haze?!? (2023-11-07)
• Issue #188: Modifier! TV! Slot APIs! ConstraintLayout()! MapBox! Multi-select calendar! Button toggle groups! And… a placeholder for Compose Multiplatform?!? (2023-10-31)
• Issue #187: BOM! Alphas! @Stable! @chrisarriola@androiddev.social on supporting views and composables from your library! Paparazzi! A WebView for Compose Multiplatform! And… what did #TheAndroidShow show?!? (2023-10-24)
• Issue #186: Gestures! Migrating to Compose! Passwords! Performance! MotionLayout()! Branded QR codes! And… trigonometry? Really?!? (2023-10-17)
• Issue #185: A new BOM! Lots of alphas! droidcon NYC 2023! LazyList! Gestures! Accessibility! Wheel pickers! Scratch-off cards! And… Compose has a vitamin?!? (2023-10-10)
• Issue #184: Measuring! @py@androiddev.social on touch input! Roborazzi! Pull-to-refresh! PDF viewing! Charts! Menus! (2023-10-03)
• Issue #183: Compose 1.6.0-alpha06! Compose/View interoperability! @zachklipp@androiddev.social on next-gen text fields! Kobweb! Swipe-to-action! MVI! WebRTC! Floating windows! More floating windows! And… why is Modifier a Modifier?!? (2023-09-26)
• Issue #182: Compose Multiplatform! Maps for Compose! Borders! Blueprints! @cb@androiddev.social on arallax! Ripples! Steppers! Swipe-to-reveal! And… we 💪 a box?!? (2023-09-19)
• Issue #181: Compose 1.5.1! Glance 1.0.0! Compose Multiplatform! Themes! Photos! Coachmarks! A bit of CommonsWare history! And @geeky_android@androiddev.social tells us what not to do! (2023-09-12)
• Issue #180: Compose Compiler 1.5.3! Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0! @katie@androiddev.social on greyscaling composables! @hitherejoe@androiddev.social on Espresso testing with Compose interop! Scrollbars! AnnotatedString! (2023-09-05)
• Issue #179: Compose Compiler 1.5.2! Compose and Wear Compose alphas! Capture composables to bitmaps! Testing! Recomposition! Compose Multiplatform! And… Accompanist is downsizing?!? (2023-08-29)
• Issue #178: Results via Navigation for Compose! @katie@androiddev.social on conditional modifiers! K2 compiler and Compose Multiplatform! Accessibility and graphs! Drag-and-drop! And pull-to-refresh… without Compose Material?!? (2023-08-22)
• Issue #177: Compose 1.5.0! Wear Compose 1.2.0! New alphas for both! Subsampling images! Shake animations! Flow layouts! Drag-and-drop! Iguana! OTP! Plus… it’s curtains for Compose?!? (2023-08-15)
• Issue #176: combinedClickable()! Live Edit! Paparazzi! Slot APIs! Chips! Recompositions! Placeholders! And… epic calendars?!? (2023-08-08)
• Issue #175: 1.5.0 RC! Android Worldwide! Live Edit! Compose Multiplatform! Tab indicators! TV grids! OneUI-styled composables! And… if the focus changes in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?!? (2023-08-01)
• Issue #174: Compose Compiler 1.5.0! Debouncing! droidcon San Francisco 2023! Composable API guidelines! Performance! Molecule 1.0! Timelines! Maps! Tinder-style swipe cards! Navigation! (2023-07-25)
• Issue #173: Design systems! Coil! Accessibility! @halil@androiddev.social on TextMotion! @katie@androiddev.social on font scaling! Another Figma plugin! And… why charts?!? (oh, no, wait, sorry, Y-Charts! 😁) (2023-07-18)
• Issue #172: TV and focus! Redwood beta! Talkback! Compose Multiplatform! Pull-to-refresh! Google Pay! Custom shapes! And… an emoji cannon?!? (2023-07-11)
• Issue #171: Compose Compiler 1.4.8! Compose 1.5.0-beta03! Recomposition, and avoiding it! Floating bubbles! Action menu animations! @cb@androiddev.social with window sizes for Compose Multiplatform! And, our rounded rectangles get… smoother?!? (2023-07-04)
• Issue #170: A new Compose alpha! Line breaks! Kristen Halper, @jossi@androiddev.social, and FoldAwareColumn()! anchorDraggable()! Comparing declarative frameworks! Navigation! Image loading! (2023-06-27)
• Issue #169: Updates to Compose, TV Compose, Wear Compose, and more! derivedStateOf()! Android Makers 2023! @lojanda@androiddev.social shows off a photo grid! Pull-to-refresh! Arrangement! And… icons without material-icons-extended?!? (2023-06-20)
• Issue #168: Avoiding duplicate navigation! @objcode@tech.lgbt on performance! Animations! Tabs! Sticky headers! Country picker! And… squircles?!? (2023-06-06)
• Issue #167: Compose beta! Tracking continuous composable presses! Animated carousels! MVI! 2D scrolling layouts! Tables! And… a stable function?!? (2023-05-30)
• Issue #166: Focus and preview cards for Compose for TV! Interactions and visual states! ViewCompositionStrategy! Compose for iOS, for real! @saket@androiddev.social is zooming! Data tables! And… BasicTextField2, the sequel?!? (2023-05-23)
• Issue #165: Google I/O! New Compose BOM and alpha! Viewmodels! BottomScaffold()! SealedX! Lottie! Dynamic themes! Floating action menus! (2023-05-16)
• Issue #164: Compose 1.4.3! Paging for Compose API changes! PreviewCard() for Compose for TV! @vtsen@androiddev.social on deep links! And three Compose Multiplatform libraries! (2023-05-09)
• Issue #163: KotlinConf! Line heights! Pager animations! Navigation for Compose! Cameras! Material 3-tinted themes! And… another Figma-to-composable toolchain?!? (2023-05-02)
• Issue #162: New Compose releases! Immutability and performance! Text rendering! Pointer input! Previews and problems! Tracking interactions! Routing! And… remembering a modifier?!? (2023-04-25)
• Issue #161: Compose Compiler! GenericShape()! Insets! @vtsen@androiddev.social on the pros and cons of CompositionLocal! TV! Keyboards! Image cropping! And… Compose for iOS?!? (2023-04-18)
• Issue #160: April 2023 BOM! 1.5.0-alpha02 https://androiddev.social/@riggaroo and https://androiddev.social/@sinasamaki on pagers! TV! State! Markdown! Themes! Charts! And more! (2023-04-11)
• Issue #159: State! Circuit! Paparazzi! Pagers! Problems with LiveData! @theapache64@androiddev.social and learning what causes recompositions! And… a 🍩?!? (you say doughnut, I say donut…) (2023-04-04)
• Issue #158: 1.4.0 stable release! astamato@androiddev.social and @halil@androiddev.social on text effects and hyphenation! Optimization! Sensors! And we pick a peck of pickled date and time pickers! (2023-03-28)
• Issue #157: Code organization! Custom layouts! Infinite scrolling! Text entry in Wear Compose! Preference UI! (2023-03-21)
• Issue #156: Compose RC! Wear Compose alpha! Grayscale composables! Updating our Compose dependencies! MVVM! Bottom sheets! And… another Figma-to-composable plugin?!? (2023-03-14)
• Issue #155: Updates to the Compose family of artifacts! Layout()! UiAutomator! Pull-to-refresh! @eliza@androiddev.social on adding animation sizzle! ExoPlayer! PIN entry! And… @hitherejoe@androiddev.social is on TV?!? (2023-02-28)
• Issue #154: Modifiers! Drawing! Errors! Paging (and testing paging)! QR codes! KMM templates! And a correction from @bentrengrove@androiddev.social! (2023-02-21)
• Issue #153: 1.4.0-beta01 is out! Modifier order! Coding styles! Compose rendering phases! Effects! Securing dialogs! Signature capture! Forms! And @vinaygaba@androiddev.social … in… SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! (2023-02-14)
• Issue #152: TextField() state! SnapshotMutationPolicy! A DropdownMenu() replacement! @tkuenneth@snapp.social on Compose for Desktop! A custom collapsible app bar! Slack Compose Lint checks! Runtime permissions! And, pour one out for databinding! (2023-02-07)
• Issue #151: alpha05! LaunchedEffect! @alex_vanyo@androiddev.social on flaky tests! Optimizations! rememberLauncherForActivityResult()! Compose for Web! Auto-sizing text! Navigation! And Material3…. for the watch?!? (2023-01-31)
• Issue #150: Locales! Relay! Effects! Paging! Foldables! Permissions! Date pickers! Bi-directional scrolling! And what your MaterialTheme means… for your SwiftUI code?!? (2023-01-24)
• Issue #149: New Compose patches and alphas! Dealing with Navigation for Compose! Scaffolds! QR codes! Server-defined UI! And @chris@banes.me has joined the BOM squad! 😁 💥 (2023-01-17)
• Issue #148: onNewIntent() and composables! ContactsContract and composables! Balloons! QR codes! Pencils! And a focus on focus! (2023-01-10)
• Issue #147: Compose for Desktop! decorationBox! OTP fields! Navigation as state! Photo pickers! Marquee effects! And Compose… for NativeScript?!? (2023-01-03)
• Issue #146: Reversing rows! Flowing text around images! States! Previews! Themes! And a video game… using Compose… on a watch?!? (2022-12-20)
• Issue #145: Patches and alphas! Ribbons! ppvi@androiddev.social and new official project templates! Live Edit! Cross-platform Compose! Grids! Bubbles! (2022-12-13)
• Issue #144: The first post-COVID issue! 🎉 derivedStateOf()! Borders around groups of composables! Custom layouts! Jellyfish! Circuits! Cameras! But… not closed-circuit cameras?!? (2022-12-06)
• Issue #143 (Sorta): Nothing to see here! (2022-11-29)
• Issue #142: droidcon London 2022! Variable fonts! Accessibility! Rotary input on Wear OS! @romainguy@androiddev.social on wrapping text around composables! And… donut holes? But, where are the donuts?!? (2022-11-22)
• Issue #141: Compose 1.3.1 and 1.4.0-alpha02! Android Developer Summit! Android Worldwide! Relay! Permissions! Showcase views! And… a not-quite-complete autocomplete?!? (2022-11-15)
• Issue #140: Tables! Relay! Shaders! Intrinsics! Integration tests! Mocking composables! And… this newsletter is becoming buttoned down?!? (2022-11-08)
• Issue #139: Compose 1.3.0 stable! Android Dev Summit videos! State machines! Relay! And… someone set us up the BOM?!? (2022-11-01)
• Issue #138: Appyx! States! @AdrianBurcin on atomic design! Loading indicators! Image cropping! Forms via annotations! And… why can’t we call composables from onClick()?!? (2022-10-25)
• Issue #137: Text! @igor_s1999 on swipe-to-refresh and pagination! Rating bars! Bounce animations! (2022-10-18)
• Issue #136: Compose RCs! Kotlin 1.7.20 support! Performance! Recomposition! Replacing ‘single live event’! ExoPlayer! And… Compose on TV? For real?!? (2022-10-11)
• Issue #135: droidcon NYC 2022! Design systems! Shaped text backgrounds! Adaptive UIs! Flowing text! Showcases! (2022-10-04)
• Issue #134: A new beta! Linkify! Animations! Dual-pane user interfaces! Compose for iOS! Lock patterns! And Google’s @bentrengrove talks about recompositions and… flamingos?!? (2022-09-27)
• Issue #133: Thinking in Compose! 🤔 Accessibility! Paging! Waveforms! Animation DSLs! Undo! And… we’re using TextField() wrong?!? (2022-09-20)
• Issue #132: Compose updates! Tracking down and fixing recompositions! Maestro! Redwood! Molecule! And Twitter’s rules for composables! (2022-09-13)
• Issue #131: Snapshots! A Glance support library! Measuring and drawing! Swipe-to-dismiss! Speed dials! And… a redwood sighting?!? (2022-09-06)
• Issue #130: Android 13 per-app language support! Performance optimizations! Expandable lists! MVI! Zooming! Steppers! And… another Compose beta? Already?!? (2022-08-30)
• Issue #129: Accompanist! Firebase! @TashaRamesh, Tinder, and Compose! Custom layouts! Page curls! Discrete sliders! And… is MVCC yet another ‘model-view’ architecture?!? (2022-08-23)
• Issue #128: Releases, releases, releases! Performance! Text in a Canvas()! Consuming flows! Effects! And… how do Live Literals work, anyway?!? (2022-08-16)
• Issue #127: droidcon Berlin 2022! Animating text! Shimmers! Recompositions! Animations! Charts! Cameras! (2022-08-09)
• Issue #126: Compose 1.2.0! Wear Compose 1.0.0! Gradients and text! Foldables! Drag-and-drop! And @andersullnass on snapshot testing! (2022-08-02)
• Issue #125: New compiler beta! Overlapping composables! RecyclerView! movableContentOf()! JSON forms! And @anafthdev_ shows us composable picker wrappers! (2022-07-26)
• Issue #124: AniamtedContent()! LookaheadLayout()! Semantics! Custom text spans! Touch events! Paging3! And… bouncy ropes?!? (2022-07-19)
• Issue #123: Kotlin 1.7.0! droidcon! Stability now! AnimatedContent()! Accessibility! Kotlin/Multiplatform! Shared element transitions! And… Compose Compiler stable release, with the rest in RC?!? (2022-07-05)
• Issue #122: 1.2.0-rc02! Coroutine scopes in composables! Lint rules! TwoPaneLayout! Fragments! Markdown! Onboarding! Per-composable viewmodels! And… linen?!? (2022-06-28)
• Issue #121: 1.2.0-rc01! Font padding! MotionLayout! Animations! Bottom sheets! Compose for Desktop! And… Android retroprogramming?!? (2022-06-21)
• Issue #120: Recomposition! Animations! Performance! Design systems! Navigation! PINs! And, where are all the Google Play composable SDKs?!? (2022-06-14)
• Issue #119: beta03! How Google Maps and Twitter moved to Compose! AlertDialog()! Design systems! Slot APIs! Templates, inside and outside the IDE! (2022-06-07)
• Issue #118: Lazy grids! Pull-to-refresh! Sensor-based parallax! Compose compiler metrics reports! Collapsing top bars! Design systems! And… a snake?!? 🐍 (2022-05-31)
• Issue #117: 1.2.0-beta02! Canvas() and animations! Google Fonts! MVI! Detekt rules! A redwood sighting! And… composable-generated PowerPoint presentations?!? (2022-05-24)
• Issue #116: Google I/O 2022 videos! Compose beta01! Layout()! State! drawBehind()! Credit cards! App intros! And… what’s a horologist?!? (2022-05-17)
• Issue #115: StateFlow vs. State! Design systems! MotionLayout! Text editing problems and solutions! And… modal sheets that are actually modal?!? (2022-05-10)
• Issue #114: @aditlal and @JorgeCastilloPr on design systems! KMP + Compose + SwiftUI! Dropdowns! FABs! And, what does Google I/O 2022 have in store for Compose UI developers? (2022-05-03)
• Issue #113: 1.2.0-alpha08! Custom modifiers! Waiting in Compose tests! Screenshots! Trees! Charts! Event queues! And… how big should a composable be? 🤔 (2022-04-26)
• Issue #112: Compose compiler metrics! Overcomposing! Animations and their tests! Capturing composables as bitmaps! And… stateful widgets?!? (2022-04-19)
• Issue #111: 1.2.0-alpha07! Wear Compose! Custom modifiers! Canvas! Drag-and-drop! WireMock! Custom sliders! (2022-04-12)
• Issue #110: Figma! Localization! Backdrops! Sticky scrolling content! Staggered grids! Country pickers! And… Compose for Platform X?!? (2022-04-05)
• Issue #109: 1.2.0-alpha06 @takahirom on cross-module models! Linear gradients! Tri-state toggles! Modal bottom sheets! Plus, @mrmans0n talks about detecting Compose mistakes! (2022-03-29)
• Issue #108: moveableContentOf()! Dependency inversion! @ahmed_tikiwa on migrating from View to Compose! And… what should newcomers to Android learn? 🤔 (2022-03-22)
• Issue #107: 1.2.0-alpha05! Animations! Permissions! Glance! Overcompose detection! And we pick a peck of color pickers! (2022-03-15)
• Issue #106: 1.1.1 and 1.2.0-alpha04! Design systems! @TTGonda on accessibility! Rich text, including an editor! And… “snapshot invalidation”?!? (2022-03-08)
• Issue #105: Animations, animations, and more animations! Action modes and IME action buttons! Flipping cards and conditionally navigating! And… a composable in an AutoCompleteTextView?!? (2022-02-22)
• Issue #104: The 1.1.0 stable release is out! 🎉 1.2.0-alpha03! Blocking multiple clicks! Charts! Molecules! Multiple @csinco sightings! And… Wear OS CPU woe? 😞 (2022-02-15)
• Issue #103: Maps Compose! Snapshot tests! @aida_isay on shapes in Compose! Showcase views! Video players! Color pickers! And… one state, or two? (2022-02-08)
• Issue #102: 1.1.0-rc03 and 1.2.0-alpha02! Key events and composable keys! Glance for tiles! Snapshots! Navigation! Media pickers! And… documentation?!? (2022-02-01)
• Issue #101: Locales! Foldables! Robolectric! Semantics! Navigation selection criteria! @StephenVinouze and segmented progress bars! And Compose… for iOS?!? (2022-01-25)
• Issue #100: 1.2.0-alpha01! Button presses! Flow operators! Writing libraries of composables! Testing! Design systems! Glance! Material You! And, it’s the centennial issue! 🎉 (2022-01-18)
• Issue #99: Screenshot testing! Accessibility! Text and fields! Rendering composables to bitmaps! Tooltips! And… Wordle in the terminal?!? (2022-01-11)
• Issue #98: rememberSaveable()! White-label apps via product flavors! Loading buttons! Sliders! Canvas! Action menus! Preferences! And… ugly gradients?!? (2022-01-04)
• Issue #97: Glance! Space! Compose Multiplatform in the real world! Formatted text in fields! State management! Date pickers! Chat UIs! And, how did 2021 turn out? (2021-12-28)
• Issue #96: RC! Child composable colors! Glance! Hilt and Koin! Passwords and toggle buttons! Swiping cards and blocking ripples! And… another RC? Already?!? (2021-12-21)
• Issue #95: Touch events! Removing jank! Slot tables and slot-based APIs! Semantics! Previews! Navigation without the Jetpack! And… a blockify() composable?!? (2021-12-14)
• Issue #94: 1.1.0-beta04! Compose Multiplatform 1.0! rememberSaveable()! Slot APIs! State management! Overflow menus! And… an instrument tuner?!? (2021-12-07)
• Issue #93: State management! Navigation! Sub-sampled images! Text fields with chips! Testing, testing, and more testing! Plus, reflection… for modifying composables?!? (2021-11-30)
• Issue #92: 1.1.0-beta03! Search bars! Swipe-for-action! Testing with Appium! Sliders! Shimmers! External displays! And… what mutableStateListOf() will not do for you!?! (2021-11-23)
• Issue #91: Molecule! Render and build performance! Custom themes! Foldables! Treemaps! And… ellipsizing text?!? (2021-11-16)
• Issue #90: 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-beta02! derivedStateOf()! Navigation in Wear OS! Flowable grids! Navigation rails! Screenshot tests! And… overcomposing?!? (2021-11-09)
• Issue #89: Android Dev Summit! 1.1.0-beta01, plus a beta of Compose Multiplatform! Lifecycle events! Slot APIs! Screenshot testing! A color picker! And… unblockable configuration changes?!? 😮 (2021-11-02)
• Issue #88: SubcomposeLayout()! Recomposition! Text entry validation! MVI! Nested navigation! Tooltips! And… modifiers for everyone! (2021-10-26)
• Issue #87: 1.0.4 and 1.1.0-alpha06! Garbage collection! Compose for Wear OS! ExoPlayer! Clean Architecture! GraphQL! (2021-10-19)
• Issue #86: Overscroll! Responsive layouts! Accessibility! Reorderable lists! Foldables! Testing with an Espresso wrapper! And… testing with robots?!? (2021-10-12)
• Issue #85: 1.0.3! 1.1.0-alpha05! Scopes! Compose in production! rememberUpdatedState()! And… particles of Compose?!? (2021-10-05)
• Issue #84: @androidamanda on declarative UIs! Keyboard handling! Swapping themes! Pickers, pickers, and more pickers! And… LED matrix displays? (2021-09-28)
• Issue #83: 1.1.0-alpha04! Form validation! Dynamic text sizing! Drop-down menus! @raamcosta with a KSP for Navigation for Compose! And a glance at some future Compose libraries! (2021-09-21)
• Issue #82: Compose tooling! Animations! Menus! Coroutines! Syntax highlighting! And… donut holes?!? (2021-09-14)
• Issue #81: 1.1.0-alpha03! Parcelable in Navigation… or not! SideEffect! Recomposition! Sharing KMP code! Grids! Timeline UIs, and timelines of stable releases! (2021-09-07)
• Issue #80: rememberUpdateState()! Paging! AndroidView()! @TouchlabHQ on animations and a composable KaMP Kit! Decompiled composables! And how sloppy use of custom views can hinder migration to Compose UI! (2021-08-31)
• Issue #79: 1.1.0-alpha02! Dependent modifiers! Input validation! Live text! Auto-sized text! And… performance anxiety?!? (2021-08-24)
• Issue #78: The history of Button()! @zachklipp on Compose in Square’s Workflow! Drop shadows! LaunchedEffect()! And… a shrine to Compose?!? (2021-08-17)
• Issue #77: New patch and alpha releases! Compose Multiplatform! Navigation animation! Email address validation! @FannyDemey on accessibility! And… finite state machines? (2021-08-10)
• Issue #76: 1.0.0 shipped! Bottom sheets! Twitter and Compose! Text! Libraries! (2021-08-03)
• Issue #75: State, events, and navigation! Link! Permissions! Responsive composables! And we rest up for the 1.0.0 launch! 😴 (2021-07-27)
• Issue #74: rc02! Preview and ViewModel, together again! Coil supports Compose! MVI! @dequesystems on accessibility! Screenshots of composables! D-pad support! And… Context code smells?!? (2021-07-20)
• Issue #73: Focus! Viewports! Navigation! @divyajain2405 talks about architecture! Screenshot testing! Sliders! Reorderable lists! (2021-07-13)
• Issue #72: RC01! Navigation! Phones and tablets! Cards! Timers! Barcodes! And… the tag?!? (2021-07-06)
• Issue #71: Tabs! @KP206 with a navigation library! Reacting to activity results! Bottom sheets! Lots of shapes! Lots of games! And… lots of Windows 11 users?!? (2021-06-29)
• Issue #70: beta09! Strings! Derived states! Text! Dialogs! Swipe gestures! And @jamiesanson tries to give us a little bit of focus! (2021-06-22)
• Issue #69: MutableState vs. MutableStateFlow! Navigation! Internationalization! @halilozercan on real-time animations! Chrome extensions using Compose for Web! And… Sudoku?!? (2021-06-15)
• Issue #68: beta08! Effects! Compose for Desktop! Navigation! Progress indicators! @MarkIAllison on foldables! And… fruit?!? (2021-06-08)
• Issue #67: Inside the compiler plugin! @zachklipp on reactive state and snapshots! Lottie! Kotlin/Native! Internationalization! And… app widgets?!? (2021-06-01)
• Issue #66: Google IO 2021! beta07! Mixing text and composables! State holders! Staggered grids! Bazel! And… digital wellbeing?!? (2021-05-25)
• Issue #65: @heyrikin explores preview-driven development! Pagers! Themes! ComposeView! KMM! A number picker! And why we still get to grumble about device manufacturers! (2021-05-18)
• Issue #64: beta06! Compose for Web! Compose for console! Compose for GraphViz? Compose for… Wear?!? Plus @JorgeCastilloPr dives into the Compose process! (2021-05-11)
• Issue #63: Dynamic feature modules! Sharing composables between Android and the desktop! Custom shapes! @lepetitbernat with a settings library! And… an earthquake?!? (2021-05-04)
• Issue #62: beta05! Migrating to Compose! Mixed lists! Effects! Material chips! IntelliJ plugins using Compose for Desktop! And… Star Wars? (2021-04-27)
• Issue #61: Testing! Autofill! Themes! Canvas and animations! Plus @sebi_io shows us Compose for Desktop, including… asteroids? (2021-04-20)
• Issue #60: beta04! Outlined text! Reactive state management! Animations! Swipe-to-refresh! Rating bars! And… Tetris? (2021-04-13)
• Issue #59: Carousels! Snackbars! Navigation! Search bars! Circular reveals! And… Compose is deprecated already?!? (2021-04-06)
• Issue #58: beta03! Modifiers! Notifications with @igorescodro! Themes! Navigation! Foldables! Animations! (2021-03-30)
• Issue #57: Testing! A @getstream_io chat app! All sorts of animations! Design grids! Zooming! A tasty recipe app! And, it is curtains for Compose UI! (2021-03-23)
• Issue #56: beta02! Performance! State management! Landscape mode! Persistent forms of remember()! And @RussHWolf and @jklingenberg_ with KMP Compose projects! (2021-03-16)
• Issue #55: Controlling scrolling and row state in a LazyColumn()! An @intelligibabble AMA! Architecture! Form factors! Pull-to-refresh! And clocks! (2021-03-09)
• Issue #54: Beta 1! Beta 1! And more Beta 1! (2021-03-02)
• Issue #53: Beta in 3…2…1…! Where Google will spend its time! Chips! Swipe to reveal! @bryancherbst on role semantics in accessibility! Lots of Compose for Desktop samples! (2021-02-23)
• Issue #52: alpha12 and the upgrade process! Colors and typography! Action bars! Scaffolds! Image loading! Worries about the beta! And… McDonald’s? (2021-02-16)
• Issue #51: Scaling and zooming images! Navigation, for Android and the desktop! Containers! GitHub projects! And… tell me what you think of this newsletter! (2021-02-09)
• Issue #50: alpha11! @iateyourmic on View interoperability and testing! Modifiers! ActivityResult! And… piano chords?!? (2021-02-02)
• Issue #49: Custom buttons! AndroidView()! Navigation (official and otherwise)! Compose for Desktop… for @jetbrains IDEA plugins! @handstandsam creates a composable system overlay! (2021-01-26)
• Issue #48: alpha10 changes! Floating action menus! Charts! The Surface Duo! Input methods built with Compose! …and ellipsizing text! (2021-01-19)
• Issue #47: layout()! Navigation with Parcelables! Custom drawers! Compose for Desktop! And Compose… for iOS?!? (2021-01-12)
• Issue #46: Navigation arguments! ViewModel? Shapes! GraphQL and Compose! More shimmers! In-browser Compose! And the power of names! (2021-01-05)
• Issue #45: alpha09! @chrisbanes on how Compose impacts APK complexity and build times! Scaffold()! Staggered grids! Calendars! Design systems! And… mistakes were made! (2020-12-22)
• Issue #44: LazyColumnFor()! Conditional modifiers! Color pickers! Auto-complete! And… what can we learn from Modifier’s implementation? (2020-12-15)
• Issue #43: Alpha 08! Arctic Foxes! remember()! Design systems! Themes! And navigation! (2020-12-08)
• Issue #42: Navigation arguments! Paging! Recomposition! And Compose colors… in the gutter? (2020-12-01)
• Issue #41: Lottie! State management! Effect handlers! The desktop! Themes! And compiler magic! (2020-11-24)
• Issue #40: alpha08! Design systems! Locale switching! Server-defined themes! And crossword puzzles! (2020-11-17)
• Issue #39: Compose for Desktop! Using ActivityResult from composables! Navigation and Paging! Talkback and Scrolling! Theme animations! And more! (2020-11-10)
• Issue #38: Navigation for Compose! Drawing! Previews! Modifiers! And yet more Navigation for Compose! (2020-11-03)
• Issue #37: Exceptions! Libraries! React-to-Compose translations! KMP and Compose! And some sliders! (note: not the baseball kind) (2020-10-27)
• Issue #36: alpha05! ConstraintLayout! Semantics API! Epoxy vs. Compose! And Tetris! (2020-10-20)
• Issue #35: Staggered grids! Screenshot testing! Columns, and more columns! Tooltips! And security improvements! (2020-10-13)
• Issue #34: alpha04! Themes! Pagers! Tables! Presentations! But Not Stability! (2020-10-06)
• Issue #33: Immutability! Hilt! GraphQL! Dependency inversion with Koin! And a dinosaur! (2020-09-29)
• Issue #32: alpha03! State and immutability! Column()! Converting layout XML to composables! (2020-09-22)
• Issue #31: Text and text fields! Markdown and padding! Compose, Hilt, and ExoPlayer! And the price of technology churn! (2020-09-15)
• Issue #30: Codelabs! (2020-09-08)
• Issue #29: The alpha has arrived! Lots of announcements! State management! And @vinaygaba gives us a showcase! (2020-09-01)
• Issue #28: dev17! Scope objects! System insets! Puns! And watching our Compose code… decompose! (2020-08-25)
• Issue #27: Text animations! Material Design and composables! A relocated style adapter! And… an upcoming alpha? (2020-08-18)
• Issue #26: dev16! Declarative thinking! (2020-08-11)
• Issue #25: State! Previews! ExoPlayer! Swipe-to-dismiss! And API design! (2020-08-04)
• Issue #24: Compose dev15! Performance! FAQs! And @JetBrains is hiring composers! (2020-07-28)
• Issue #23: More on whitespace! FABs! Hacker News! And… Compose for the Web? (2020-07-21)
• Issue #22: Immutability! Dialogs! Sample Data! And Exploding FABs! (2020-07-14)
• Issue #21: Space! ConstraintLayout! Dates, times, and pagers! And an Alan Greenspan quote! (2020-07-07)
• Issue #20: dev14! Figma! Server-driven UI! Telegram! And… is my function too long? (2020-06-30)
• Issue #19: CameraView! (2020-06-23)
• Issue #18: dev13! @romainguy and a roadmap! Function reference woes! Plus Android Studio 4.2 Canary 1, and its bugs! (2020-06-16)
• Issue #17: States! Joe Birch! @Preview properties! And death to data binding? (2020-06-09)
• Issue #16: dev12! Ambients! Videos and podcasts! (2020-06-02)
• Issue #15: Coroutines! Themes! AnnotatedString Clicks! (2020-05-26)
• Issue #14: dev11! ConstraintLayout! Coil! (2020-05-19)
• Issue #13: Focus! Units! FABs! (2020-05-12)
• Issue #12: dev10! New compiler plugin! Shimmer! (2020-05-05)
• Issue #11: Images! RadioGroups! And… the desktop?!? (2020-04-28)
• Issue #10: dev09! Snackbars! Life! (2020-04-21)
• Issue #9: Configuration changes! Compiler changes! Doom! (2020-04-14)
• Issue #8: dev08! Images! Shared Elements! (2020-04-07)
• Issue #7: Animations! Weather! Docs! (2020-03-31)
• Issue #6: dev07! Reflection! Priorities! (2020-03-24)
• Issue #5: Maps! Animations! and… COVID-19? (2020-03-17)
• Issue #4: dev06! Rich Text! FABs! (2020-03-10)
• Issue #3: Studio updates! LiveData! Glide! (2020-03-03)
• Issue #2: dev05! Routing! Pokémon! (2020-02-26)
• Issue #1: Hello, world! (2020-02-18)