Newsletter Issue Archives

• 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)