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
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
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
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
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
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
In version 1.3.0 of Jetpack Compose we see the addition of two sought after composables, the LazyVerticalStaggeredGrid and LazyHorizontalStaggeredGrid. Both of these composables allow us to compose lists of content in a staggered fashion, allowing us to easily compose items that have a range of heights / widths while also supporting lazy composition. In this… Continue reading
When it comes to the applications we build, there are many different scenarios and constraints that the end product will encounter. On Android we not only have a vast range of devices running the Android OS, each of which could be running one of many versions of Android, but we also have the different OEMs… Continue reading
When it comes to displaying text in Android Applications, Fonts are used to describe the styling, size and weight of a typeface. In some cases, developers render text in their applications without overriding the default font being used – which results in the default typeface for applications being applied. On the other hand, many applications… Continue reading
There was a lot of exciting news announced at Google I/O this week – one of the things I had been looking forward to was hearing about large screen experiences. While these devices and design principles have existed side-by-side for some time, it’s always felt like support for developers has never quite fully been accessible…. Continue reading