How the build speed, APK size and source line count changed after migrating the Tivi sample app to Jetpack Compose — This post has been updated since it was first published, to new include updated stats for Jetpack Compose 1.0.0–rc01. If you would like to see the original version of this post, see here. In 2020, I began the task of slowly migrating the UI in Tivi to be written in…

Using Material Design Components to implement a dark theme — In the previous blog posts, Nick Rout went through the basis of Material Theming, and the pillars of color, typography and shape. Material Theming with MDC: Color Color theming on Android using the MDC librarymedium.com Material Theming with MDC: Type Type theming on Android using the MDC librarymedium.com Material Theming with MDC: Shape Material Theming is a way to customize Material Components to align with your brand. A Material theme includes color…medium.com

Reacting to inset animations — In the previous blog post, we covered all of the changes to the APIs related to going edge-to-edge: Animating your Keyboard New WindowInsets APIs for checking the keyboard (IME) visibility and sizemedium.com In this blog post we move forward on with the actual task of animating the keyboard. To demonstrate what is possible, here you can see an example of the same app, running…

New WindowInsets APIs for checking the keyboard (IME) visibility and size — New in Android 11 is the ability for apps to create seamless transitions between the on screen keyboard being opened and closed, and it’s all powered by lots of improvements to the WindowInsets APIs in Android 11. Here you are two examples of it in action on Android 11. It…

A worked example from the Tivi app — This blog post is the second of two which explores how coroutines enables you to write complex asynchronous UI operations in a much simpler way. The first post goes through the theory, while this post demonstrates how they fix a problem. If you want to recap the first post, you…

How coroutines can make UI programming easier — Kotlin Coroutines allow us to model asynchronous problems like synchronous code. That’s great, but most usage seems to concentrate on I/O tasks and concurrent operations. Coroutines are great at modelling problems which work across threads, but can also model asynchronous problems on the same thread. There’s one place which I…

This is the third post in our blog post series on we covered how to handle visual overlaps after updating an app to draw ‘edge-to-edge’. — This is the third post in our series on Gesture Navigation. If you want to skip to another post, you can find them listed below: Gesture Navigation: Going edge-to-edge (I) With Android Q, a new system navigation mode has been added, allowing the user to navigate back, and to the home screen…medium.com

In the third post in this blog post series on Gesture Navigation, we covered how to handle any gesture conflicts which can occur with your… — This is the fourth post in our series on Gesture Navigation. If you want to skip to another post, you can find them listed below: Gesture Navigation: Going edge-to-edge (I) With Android Q, a new system navigation mode has been added, allowing the user to navigate back, and to the home screen…medium.com

This is the second post in my series on Gesture Navigation. In case you missed it, here’s the others so far: — This is the second post in our series on Gesture Navigation. If you want to skip to another post, you can find them listed below: Gesture Navigation: Going edge-to-edge (I) With Android Q, a new system navigation mode has been added, allowing the user to navigate back, and to the home screen…medium.com