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Blossoming love for Compose animation

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23
Kristen Halper
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 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23
Kristen Halper
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 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 05/11/23
Kristen Halper
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 ...

Relay Anchor Leg: Overall impressions

January 26, 2023 Jan 26, 2023 01/26/23
Kristen Halper
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...

Relay Leg 2: Tips and tricks

January 19, 2023 Jan 19, 2023 01/19/23
Kristen Halper
Hello Compose developers, Last week, I gave a brief introduction to Relay, the new Figma to Compose tool developed by Google. This week, I’ll dive deeper into some tips and tricks I learned when testing out Relay, As a reminder, Relay is in alpha, so please go try it out and send the Relay team your feedback! Putting Relay...

Pass the design baton with Relay

January 12, 2023 Jan 12, 2023 01/12/23
Kristen Halper
Hello Compose developers, Over the holidays, I finally got the chance to test out Relay, the new tool released by Google late last year. The goal of Relay is to simplify the “handoff problem” between designers and developers by translating Figma designs directly into Compose code. Figure 1. Viewing the StatusCard and Chip...

Happy Holidays 2022

December 22, 2022 Dec 22, 2022 12/22/22
authorschatgpt, Craig Dunn
Hello Android developers, Inspired by the growth of AI and its role in products like GitHub’s Copilot this year, we asked ChatGPT to “propose some applications for Surface Duo owners to use over the holidays”… One possible application for Surface Duo owners to use over the holidays could be to use the dual screens ...

Compose TwoPaneLayout updates

December 8, 2022 Dec 8, 2022 12/8/22
Kristen Halper
Hello Compose developers, This week, we’d like to announce two major updates to our TwoPaneLayout component that come with version 1.0.1-alpha05. We hope these updates will help make the library even more flexible and useful for you all. We also have some other Compose SDK updates to announce! New value in PaneMode ...