In the previous MAD Skills Compose Basics article, you learned how to think in Compose — you describe your UI in Kotlin as functions. No more XML needed! In this article, we will dive deeper into these functions and how you can build UI with them. As a reminder, we…

This post of our Compose Basics series goes into detail on what it means to think in Compose. Because Jetpack Compose is a declarative UI framework, as a developer you describe what your UI should display, instead of telling it how to display it. Make sure to leave a comment…

TL;DR RecyclerView 1.3.0-alpha02 and Compose UI 1.2.0-beta02 bring out-of-the-box performant usage of composables from RecyclerView — no extra code required! If you had previously implemented our guidance for Compose in RecyclerView, you should now remove this code. Introducing Compose incrementally in your codebase means that you can end up in…

Interoperability and Compose API lessons learned while building Maps Compose — This year we released the Maps Compose library, a Jetpack Compose library for adding Google Maps to your app. At its core, Maps Compose is an interop library for the Maps SDK for Android that exposes Compose friendly APIs. …

I recently open-sourced a tool called secrets-gradle-plugin — a Gradle plugin that allows you to pass secrets, such as API keys, securely into an Android app. While the plugin was originally developed for apps that use Google Maps Platform Android SDKs, the problem it solves is generic enough and can…

This is the 1st part of a 3 part series about how RxJava is used in Pre, a location-based app for checking in and chatting with your best friends. …

This is the 1st part of a 3 part series about how RxJava is used in Pre, a location-based app for checking in and chatting with your best friends. …

I’m very pleased to announce that a book that Angus Huang and I started writing a few months back, “Reactive Programming on Android with RxJava”, is now published and available on LeanPub! 🎉 What is RxJava? RxJava — the Java implementation of ReactiveX — was open sourced and introduced to the developer community…

This post was originally published on my Toptal account. Concurrency and asynchronicity are inherent to mobile programming. Dealing with concurrency through imperative-style programming, which is what programming on Android generally involves, can be the cause of many problems. …