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…

Over the past year I’ve been working hard on Practical Jetpack Compose — a course to help you learn how to build UI using this new UI framework for Android. In this course we take a practical approach in learning how to build Android Apps using Jetpack Compose. …

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…

In a recent blog post, we took a look at how we can use Compose Navigation in a modularized application. With this approach we saw many benefits — allowing us to centralise our navigation logic in a single place, while also decoupling navigation dependencies from the rest of our application. …

A large amount of mobile apps will need some form of Navigation, allowing users to move between different parts of an application. When implementing these requirements within Android Apps, applications have either rolled their own solutions, relied on traditional intents or the fragment manager, or explored the option of the…

Since the announcement of Jetpack Compose, followed by the developer and alpha releases of the framework, excitement has been building around getting this into our apps. With the migration to Compose, we will see huge improvements in developer productivity, application stability and maintainability, as well as other side affects in…

Since the introduction of the Navigation Component on Android, navigating the different parts of our application has become much more pleasant to implement. We’ve been able to better decouple navigation logic from our activities and fragments, along with being able to test these paths with more ease. However, the Navigation…

That time of the year has come, a new Android version is on the horizon! As announced in a blog post earlier this week, the first developer preview of Android 11 is now available — along with details on some of the changes that are happening. …

This was originally posted at joebirch.co In many screens of our applications it’s likely that we’re making use of a Toolbar / AppBar within our Android applications. When it comes to building apps with Jetpack Compose, we’re going to want to recreate this component. In this article we’re going to…