🎬 And with this, we conclude our MAD skills series on Compose Layouts and Modifiers! We’ve covered a lot in these episodes — from the very basics of layouts and modifiers, simple and powerful out-of-the-box layouts, Compose phases, to advanced concepts such as modifier chaining order and subcomposition. We also…

Episode 4 of MAD Skills: Compose Layouts and Modifiers Welcome back to the MAD Skills series on Jetpack Compose layouts and modifiers! In the previous episode, we talked about the Layout phase of Compose to explain how modifier chaining order and incoming parent constraints impact the composable they’re passed to. In today’s episode, we zoom in even more on…

Episode 1 of MAD Skills: Compose Layouts and Modifiers — Welcome to the MAD Skills series on Jetpack Compose layouts and modifiers! In this first post, we’re going to start our journey by explaining the fundamentals of layouts and modifiers. We’ll go over how they work together, what out-of-the-box APIs Compose offers, and how to beautifully style your UI —…

In this final post of our Jetpack DataStore series, we will be covering how to test your DataStore successfully. Testing DataStore Every good story needs good testing! To wrap up our series, we will go over how to approach testing your DataStore. Again, we’ll be referring to the Preferences codelab as a…

In this post from our Jetpack DataStore series, we will be covering how to do DataStore-to-DataStore migrations. Hopefully, this will provide you all the information you need to add DataStore to your app successfully. We will be referring to the Preferences codelab throughout this post, for code samples. Data migration We previously…

In the following posts from our Jetpack DataStore series, we will cover several additional concepts to understand how DataStore interacts with other APIs, so that you’d have everything at your disposal to use it in a production environment. In this post specifically, we will be focusing on doing synchronous work…

In the following posts from our Jetpack DataStore series, we will cover several additional concepts to understand how DataStore interacts with other APIs, so that you’d have everything at your disposal to use it in a production environment. In this post, we will be focusing on Kotlin serialization. …

In the following posts from our Jetpack DataStore series, we will cover several additional concepts to understand how DataStore interacts with other APIs, so that you’ll have everything at your disposal to use in a production environment. In this post specifically, we will be focusing on dependency injection with Hilt…

In this post, we will learn about Proto DataStore, one of two DataStore implementations. We will discuss how to create it, read and write data and how to handle exceptions, to better understand the scenarios that make Proto a great choice. Proto DataStore uses typed objects backed by Protocol Buffers…