jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #2
Published: 2020-02-26
dev05
is here! And with it, we get our usual round of “hey, where did this move
to?” and “what is the replacement for that?” sorts of questions. A fast-moving
API means a quickly-obsolete set of existing resources.
But, that’s not going to stop us from trying!
Beyond that, we have routing, nav drawers, and Pokémon.
One Off the Stack, One Off the Slack
You’ve got questions. That’s understandable!
Using createComposeRule()
Google’s Ryan Mentley offers a quick tip for writing tests using
createComposeRule()
: adding android.app.Activity
as an activity in your
manifest.
Router vs. Navigation Component
In this Slack thread, Leland Richardson and Zsolt Kocsi debate how we might move from screen to screen within a Compose app.
Note: to view this, you need to be a member of the Kotlin Slack workspace — sign up at https://slack.kotlinlang.org/!
Composable Commentary
Posts, videos, and other new information related to Jetpack Compose!
Compose dev05
Release Notes
With each Compose update, we get a short list of release notes, along with links to corresponding commits in the repo.
Compose UI dev05
Release Notes
Similarly, we get release notes for the androidx.ui
library, which represents
most of the API surface that we as Compose users wind up touching.
Exploring Jetpack Compose: Modal Drawer Layout
Joe Birch continues his blog post series on Compose, this time looking at implementing navigation-style drawers.
Resource Roundup
100% pure code!
GitHub - Meshtastic companion app
Kevin Hester’s Android companion application for the Meshtastic ski/hike/fly/Signal-chat GPS radio
GitHub - Pokedex on Jetpack Compose
Zsolt Kocsi’s implementation of a Pokedex using Jetpack Compose
…And One More Thing
With each dev release, we need to make some adjustments to our Gradle scripts to adopt it. The obvious one is to update all of the Compose-related dependencies. But, in addition:
-
Make sure that you set the
kotlinCompilerExtensionVersion
value in thecomposeOptions
closure to the same version that you are using for your dependencies. -
Double-check the
kotlinCompilerVersion
to see if it has changed from the1.3.61-dev-withExperimentalGoogleExtensions-20200129
value that we are using today.
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