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2023 year in review

December 31, 2023 Dec 31, 2023 12/31/23
Craig Dunn
Hello Android developers, 2023 was the year that machine learning and artificial intelligence really became mainstream, and we covered both topics with a focus on Android implementations. We published series on using the ONNX machine learning runtime, building Android apps with Microsoft Graph, and tutorials for Jetpack Compose ...

JetchatAI gets smarter with embeddings

June 15, 2023 Jun 15, 2023 06/15/23
Craig Dunn
Hello prompt engineers, A few weeks ago we finished a series of posts building an AI chatbot using the Jetchat sample with OpenAI. The sample uses the chat and image endpoints, but has the same limitation as many LLMs, which is that its knowledge is limited to the training data (for example, anything after September 2021 is not ...

Improved navigation support in TwoPaneLayout

June 8, 2023 Jun 8, 2023 06/8/23
Kristen Halper
Hello Jetpack Compose developers, This week, we’re excited to announce an update to our TwoPaneLayout library! You can now use with destinations that accept navigation arguments. This new feature was originally suggested by two developers in our feedback forum, so special thanks to @tscholze and @Papes96 for staying ...

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 method and composable to build animations in this post, so if you haven...

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...