When it comes to developing Android applications, ensuring or applications remain stable is vital to providing a good user experience. One of things we can do to help achieve this is by writing automated tests that run checks against the user interface of our application. When it comes to Jetpack Compose, things currently look a little different to how we might be used to writing these kind of...
When it comes to the layout of child components inside of their parents, it is likely we’re going to want to arrange them in some way on both the horizontal and/or vertical axis. For example, our parent may fill the height of the screen, but our child components may only represent a small amount of that height and we may want to arrange that to be at the bottom of the screen. The same applies...
When it comes to building our UI in jetpack compose, for a lot of applications it will come at a time when our UIs are already build using a mixture of existing solutions – be it XML layouts or custom views. It may even be the case that we have custom views in our current Android project that aren’t quite ready to be converted over to compose just yet, or maybe it doesn’t feel very...
If you’re enjoying my posts on Jetpack Compose, check out some details on the book I’ll be writing on Compose! When it comes to laying out groups of components in our screens, it’s not always the case that we want them to be sequentially displayed in a vertical or horizontal manner. There may be times in which we want to have some items drawn behind and/or on top of others. When this is...
If you’re enjoying my posts on Jetpack Compose, check out some details on the book I’ll be writing on Compose! When it comes to decorating views within Jetpack Compose, some components allow the use of a Border reference to outline a given component. Currently, the use of a Border reference is not too extensive and requires minimal effort to get in place. There are currently two ways to...
In the last section we looked at the Radio Button, allowing us to create a single selectable item. However, defining a group of these would require a collection of boilerplate logic as we’d have to manually handle the state for the group of buttons. When it comes to this scenario, Jetpack Compose contains a Radio Group which can be used to create a collection of radio buttons for single selection...
If you’re enjoying my posts on Jetpack Compose, check out some details on the book I’ll be writing on Compose! We previously looked at other checkable components and how they can be used to allow a toggleable state controller within our user interface. Alongside these other toggleable components we also have the Radio Button component. This button allows our users to select some...
If you’re enjoying my posts on Jetpack Compose, check out some details on the book I’ll be writing on Compose! Snackbars provide us with a way to show short, non-blocking alerts to the user. Usually displayed at the bottom of the screen, these components can also provide a single action for the user to take in the context of the given message. Jetpack Compose provides us a minimal API...
If you’re enjoying my posts on Jetpack Compose, check out some details on the book I’ll be writing on Compose! We previously looked at the Checkbox components and how they can be used to allow a toggle able state controller within our user interface. Alongside this toggleable component we also have the Switch component. This Switch allows our users to turn some property on and off...
If you’re enjoying my posts on Jetpack Compose, check out some details on the book I’ll be writing on Compose! Checkboxes are crucial components when it comes to common areas of our applications. Be it settings screens, forms or any kind of content that needs to allow the user to toggle the checked state of the component – the Checkbox is essential in these scenarios. Alongside the standard...