This post is sponsored by Practical Jetpack Compose. The Card composable is a surface that can be used to present content and actions focused on a single topic. When it comes to displaying a Card, there is a single composable function that can be used to do so. Here we can see that there are… Continue reading
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Exploring Jetpack Compose: Android View
Important: The contents of this article have been deprecated with newer releases for Jetpack Compose. If you’re looking to learn about Jetpack Compose, please see the guides over at Compose Academy.
Digging into failed redirects within Android Webviews
Header Photo by The Nigmatic on Unsplash Discovering the issue It was the 14th December and we were winding down ready for the Christmas break. Our code freeze had kicked in several days previously and we had shipped an update at that time to get a couple of priority bug fixes before the holidays. We… Continue reading
Exploring the Android Fragment Scenario component
I’m always curious about what tools and features are coming up next in android — and to be sure I don’t miss out on any of this I like to keep an eye on release notes over on the android developer site. Two that caught my eye recently where the fragment-1.1.0-alpha01 and fragment-testing-1.1.0-alpha01 releases, within the testing… Continue reading
Exploring Android P: Magnifier
At Google I/O there were a lot of new announcements around the latest version of Android, P. One of these announcements was the new Magnifier functionality—a feature that will make it easier to view and select content that the magnifier is currently being shown for. In this article we’re going to take a quick dive… Continue reading
Exploring Android P: Priority Buckets
At Google I/O there were a lot of new announcements around the latest version of Android, P. One of these announcements were Priority Buckets — a battery management update to Android where the system will prioritise resources based on both how recently, and how frequently, the application in question is used. In this article we’re going to… Continue reading