Android Studio Flamingo, Android 14 Beta 1, Kotlin DSL, pager composables, WindowManager release and more! — Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Episode 81 Video and Podcast Now in Android is also offered as a video and podcast. Android Studio Flamingo is stable 🦩 This release includes multiple enhancements and features to help you build better apps more efficiently. Here’s a summary:

Vertically center text in a two-line height container — Given a requirement, sometimes multiple alternatives may be available to implement it. In this blog we look at a practical use case for positioning text in Compose. We’ll analyze multiple alternatives to solve it, using different Compose text APIs. We’ll review pros and cons and, as a bonus, the performance…

Variable Fonts are ready to use from Compose UI 1.3.0, for Android O and above. A variable font is a font that can be customized in multiple ways (or axis or parameters) creating dramatically different styles, while living in a single font file. Those axes can be well known and…

TL;DR To prevent synchronization issues and unexpected behaviors: – Avoid delays/asynchronous behaviors between typing and updating TextField state. – Avoid holding TextField state using a reactive stream (e.g. collecting from StateFlow using the default dispatcher) – Define TextField state variables with Compose APIs like MutableState<String>. Hoist TextField state to the…

After adding a gradient to your text in Compose, now it’s time to animate it! This post builds up on text styling using the Brush API and Compose animations! Make sure you’re familiar with these concepts. We covered all the integrations using the Brush API on this blog post here. Candy cane shimmer effect …

Imagine your designer asks you to implement the sketch below:

TL;DR Update June 2023: Compose ui 1.6.0-alpha01 is the first version with includeFontPadding switched to false by default. Use PlatformTextStyle API from Compose 1.2.0 to configure includeFontPadding. For few compose versions it was deprecated on purpose to indicate that it is a compatibility API, but has been undeprecated in compose 1.5 to encourage developers to use it. Test your UI using includeFontPadding set to false and make…

Hace más de dos meses vinimos a vivir a Dublin y ya tenemos planes sólidos para volver de visita a Argentina para Navidad. Algunos podrán decir que es muy pronto? La vida en Europa es distinta, más relajada y distendida, como si lo único realmente importante fuera elegir el bar…

Afuera y lejos de casa siento el tiempo detenerse. El tiempo sólo transcurre allá, al otro lado del Atlántico, donde conozco a todos, donde los sabores son otros, donde cada esquina guarda un recuerdo. Vivo en una foto, parada en el tiempo. …