Cloned Android 10’s Calculator UI using Jetpack Compose, as it’s (surprisingly) one of the more complex UI structures. Before I get into it — previously I also covered Twitter UI —so check that out as well: Jetpack Compose: Twitter UI I decided to test out Jetpack Compose by making a simple Twitter UI clone after I came across this tweet by Mariano…android.jlelse.eu Also recommend these: Jetpack Compose: Lists The two ways we can implement Lists in Jetpack Compose.levelup.gitconnected.com

I decided to test out Jetpack Compose by making a simple Twitter UI clone after I came across this tweet by Mariano Zorrilla: He used Flutter (which is an amazing tool btw for building cross platform apps) — with just one day of work, 1500 lines of code. …

The two ways we can implement Lists in Jetpack Compose. Note: I’m using Jetpack Compose version 0.1.0-dev08 at the time of writing this. Using AdapterList We can use AdapterList composable — it is equivalent to RecyclerViews + RecyclerViewAdapters — but with significantly less code 😍

As the Jetpack Compose library is being developed, I wanted to quickly go over the layout options we have so far. This time covering Columns and Rows. Previously I covered the Container layout — you can check out the article here: Jetpack Compose: Container Layout As the Jetpack Compose library is being developed — I wanted to quickly go over some the layout options we have so far…levelup.gitconnected.com

As the Jetpack Compose library is being developed — I wanted to quickly go over the layout options we have so far. Starting with the Container layout. Update: As of compose version 0.1.0-dev08 the Container Layout has been deprecated in favor of using Box — You can still read details…

A quick recipe on how to save ViewModel state across android process death. A misconception among some android developers is that the purpose of using ViewModels is state persistence — it’s actually partly true — they do help in saving state across configuration change (e.g. device rotation) but not process…

A pretty cool feature in Kotlin is the ability to construct custom DSLs. And you need just four things in order to write them. Infix Notations Extension Methods Lambdas Lambda with Receiver Let’s go through these one by one. Infix Notation Remove brackets & dots! class Car { fun drive(miles…

Arrow is a functional programming tool-kit for Kotlin. We can apply a lot of the functional programming concepts with it, as we do in other purely functional programming languages. Arrow Functional companion to Kotlin’s Standard Libraryarrow-kt.io A Real World Example I came across this video — about functional programming in Scala by Jordan Parmer. …

When building an app, most of the time what we’re doing is pretty much mapping direct/indirect actions to some UI state. While using Architecture Components, achieving this is quite easy with the help of LiveData + Coroutines + ViewModels — but it does require a bit of code to set…