The Photo Picker allow us to reduce friction when working with Media selection on Android, along with creating a simpler + consistent experience for users. In this blog post, we’re going to take a quick look at how we can use it in our own apps – both in Composable UI and within activities/fragments. Looking… Continue reading
Posts Tagged → Android App Development
Android App Update Prompts using the Google Play Console
Many apps regularly release new versions to the Google Play Store – be it for new features, fixes or more urgent changes due to security or breaking changes. Even though many users have automatic updates enabled, we often see slow adoption for new app releases. Not only does this mean a delay in users seeing… Continue reading
Adding Custom Actions to Share Sheets in Android 14
When interacting with Android Apps, share sheets are a common component that we’ll interact with when sharing content with other apps and contacts. As developers, we can improve the usability of these share sheets by utilising features such as adding previews for content being shared, as well as implementing direct share targets to commonly interacted… Continue reading
Sharing Composables between Mobile and TV Apps
For the past few years, we’ve been getting to grips with Jetpack Compose and how we can use it to build apps for Handheld and Wear OS devices. Late last year, Composables built for Android TV apps started to surface as Alpha releases and in this series of blog posts, I want to dive into… Continue reading
Exploring Android 14: Partial Media Permissions
If you’ve used iOS in recent years, you’ve likely experienced the ability to grant apps partial access to your device media. I have always been a big fan of this feature, as in a lot of cases you won’t want to grant anyone access to your entire media library – being able to do so… Continue reading
Material Components for Android TV using Jetpack Compose
For the past few years, we’ve been getting to grips with Jetpack Compose and how we can use it to build apps for Handheld and Wear OS devices. Late last year, Composables built for Android TV apps started to surface as Alpha releases and in this series of blog posts, I want to dive into… Continue reading
Jetpack Compose + Material Components for Android TV: Cards
For the past few years, we’ve been getting to grips with Jetpack Compose and how we can use it to build apps for Handheld and Wear OS devices. Late last year, Composables built for Android TV apps started to surface as Alpha releases and in this series of blog posts, I want to dive into… Continue reading
Exploring Compose Test Rules
When it comes to testing Composables, we can utilise the ComposeContentTestRule to compose, interact with and perform assertions on our composables. However, there are multiple ways to create a compose rule and in this blog post, I want to share what each one can be used for we can learn which one we’ll need for… Continue reading
Compose Interoperability in Espresso Tests
During your migration to Compose, there are many moving parts to think about. How do we slot composables into existing Android Views? How do we manage the state between Android Views and Composable? Alongside these questions, it’s likely we’re going have other areas of our projects that are affected by compose migration. While the Compose… Continue reading
Tabbed Navigation for Android TV using Jetpack Compose
For the past few years, we’ve been getting to grips with Jetpack Compose and how we can use it to build apps for Handheld and Wear OS devices. Late last year, Composables built for Android TV apps started to surface as Alpha releases and in this series of blog posts, I want to dive into… Continue reading