At ADS ’22, I shared a migration strategy from existing View-based apps to Compose. In this blog post, we take a look at how to apply that strategy in practice by completing the migration of the Sunflower sample app to Compose.

We just wrapped up the MAD skills series on Compose Basics! If you’re new to Compose, this collection of videos and articles are great resources for giving you a good foundation for building apps with Compose. …

Compose allows you to build beautiful UIs quickly. Together with the Android Studio tooling support, you’re able to accelerate the development process even further with faster iteration and better debugging. So far we’ve looked at how to implement a single answer option in Jetsurvey, one of our Compose samples (previous…

In the previous MAD Skills Compose Basics article, you learned about the building blocks of UI in Compose: composable functions. Now, it’s time to learn about the powerful toolkit of UI components that ship with Compose enabling you to build rich UIs and interactions. If you’ve got any questions so…

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…