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Jan 19, 2023
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Relay Leg 2: Tips and tricks

Kristen Halper
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 to the...

Jetpack Composedesign
Jan 12, 2023
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Pass the design baton with Relay

Kristen Halper
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 UI packa...

Jetpack Composedesign
Dec 22, 2022
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Happy Holidays 2022

Craig Dunn
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 to create a di...

Surface DuokotlinJetpack Compose
Dec 8, 2022
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Compose TwoPaneLayout updates

Kristen Halper
Kristen Halper

Hello Compose developers, This week, we’d like to announce two major updates to our TwoPaneLayout component that come with version . 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 enum It may seem c...

Jetpack Composefoldable
Dec 1, 2022
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droidcon New York and London

John Wiese Kristen Halper Parker Schroeder
John,
Kristen,
Parker

Hello Android developers! It has been great to see the community face-to-face at droidcon events around the world in 2022. The Surface Duo team really enjoyed meeting folks, presenting, and discussing foldable app development face-to-face. If you didn’t make it to an event (or if you did but want to re-live it) more sessions are now avai...

Jetpack Window ManagerJetpack Composefoldable
Sep 22, 2022
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Jetpack Compose Accompanist TwoPane

Kristen Halper
Kristen Halper

Hello Compose developers! This week, we’d like to talk about the TwoPane layout from Google’s Accompanist Adaptive library! Not to be confused with our own Microsoft Compose SDK TwoPaneLayout component, TwoPane from Accompanist is a fold-aware UI component that works great for cases when you always want to show two pieces of conte...

kotlinJetpack Window ManagerJetpack Compose
Sep 15, 2022
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Improving app accessibility with Jetpack Compose

Kristen Halper
Kristen Halper

Hello Jetpack Compose developers! This week, we’d like to share how we started improving the accessibility of our Compose samples. Accessibility in Android can relate to many different aspects of your apps, ranging from content descriptions and color contrast to layout hierarchy and touch target size. Regardless of where you start...

kotlinJetpack Composeaccessibility
Sep 1, 2022
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Dual-screen example adds Jetpack Compose to the experience

Alin-Mihai Argeanu Kristen Halper
Alin-Mihai,
Kristen

Hello Compose developers! This week, we’re excited to announce two big updates to our dual-screen experience example: a Compose refactor of the catalog page and a brand new order history page. The dual-screen experience example provides an end-to-end experience centered around a travelling guitar salesperson, with options to find ...

Surface DuokotlinJetpack Compose
Aug 11, 2022
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Test Kit Annotations update

Andrei Cirja
Andrei Cirja

Hello Android developers! We are excited to announce an update for the foldable Test Kit library. Test Kit provides utility methods and classes that help you write instrumented tests for large screen and foldable devices. This update adds annotations which are useful for creating tests for one posture at a time. Now, instead of adding e...

kotlinJetpack Window ManagerJetpack Compose
Jul 28, 2022
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Drag and drop library for Jetpack Compose

Joy Liu
Joy Liu

Hello Compose developers! This week, we are excited to announce the release of DragAndDrop, a new utility library that will help you easily add interactive drag and drop capabilities to your app in Compose, following Google’s Drag and drop guidelines. It is the newest addition to Microsoft’s Compose SDK. On dual-screen and foldab...

Jetpack ComposefoldableAndroid developer