Kristen Halper

SW/FW Engineer, Surface Duo Developer Experience

Works in the Surface Duo Developer Experience team to help with all aspects of dual-screen SDK development and customer engagement.

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Blossoming love for Compose animation

May 25th, 2023
Hello Jetpack Compose developers, Today we’ll be finishing up our blog series on animations in Jetpack Compose! This content was inspired by Nicole Terc’s Composable Sheep talk from droidcon NYC. Over the past two weeks, we covered some basics graphics, animation canvases, and basic animations. This week, we’ll polish ...

Blooming love for Compose animation

May 18th, 2023
Hello Jetpack Compose developers, Today we’ll be continuing our blog series on animations in Jetpack Compose! This content was inspired by Nicole Terc’s Composable Sheep talk from droidcon NYC. More basic animations We’ll be continuing to use our drawSunflower method and Sketch composable to build animations in this ...

Budding love for compose animation

May 11th, 2023
Hello Jetpack Compose developers, Last week, we did some Compose animation work to build a typing indicator in a chat app. For our next blog series, I’ll be diving into more animation topics with a project inspired by Nicole Terc’s Composable Sheep talk from droidcon NYC. Her composable sheep talk series inspired me to work on ...

JetchatGPT improvements: error handling and animations

May 4th, 2023
Hello prompt engineers and Jetpack Compose developers, Last week, we introduced the JetchatGPT sample to show you how to integrate the OpenAI chat API into an Android app. Instead of building requests manually like in previous blog posts, we showed you how to use the openai-kotlin client library to make it easier to interact with the ...

Jetchat with OpenAI on Android

April 27th, 2023
Hello prompt engineers, The last three blogs have been about exploring the OpenAI API completion, edit, and image endpoints from Android, using HttpClient and crafting JSON requests and responses. This post is about implementing the chat API in an Android app, using the open-source client library openai-kotlin on GitHub. The library...

Does OpenAI on Android dream of electronic sheep

April 20th, 2023
Hello prompt engineers, We’re back with another blog post on using OpenAI in Android applications! So far in this blog series, we’ve covered: Last week, we talked about the different API endpoint options and showed you some examples of how to use the Edits API. Today, we’ll be focusing more on the...

Sync to OneNote in Android app using MS Graph

March 23rd, 2023
Hello Android developers, Today we’ll be finishing up our blog series on using the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) and the Microsoft Graph. Using these tools, your own Android apps will be able to connect to M365 services. Previously, we covered the basics of MSAL, an introduction to MS Graph for Android, and how to...

Use Microsoft Graph in an Android app

March 16th, 2023
Hello Android developers, This week, we’ll be continuing our blog series on using the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) and the Microsoft Graph to connect to M365 services in your own Android apps. Previously, we covered the basics of MSAL and an introduction to MS Graph for Android, so be sure to check out those ...

Introduction to Microsoft Graph for Android

March 9th, 2023
Hello Android developers, Today we’ll be continuing our blog series on using the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) and the Microsoft Graph to connect to M365 services in your own Android apps. Last week, we covered the basics of MSAL, so be sure to check that out first! This week, we’ll focus on the Microsoft...

Relay Anchor Leg: Overall impressions

January 26th, 2023
Hello Compose developers, Over the last two weeks, I’ve given a brief introduction to Relay, as well as talked about some of the tips and tricks I picked up while using the tool. This week, I’ll share my thoughts on the current state of Relay from the developer point of view. As a reminder, Relay is in alpha, so please go...

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