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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. (image) Figure 1. Viewing the StatusCard ...

Happy Holidays 2022

December 22, 2022 Dec 22, 2022 12/22/22
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 . 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...

Jetpack Compose Accompanist TwoPane

September 22, 2022 Sep 22, 2022 09/22/22
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...

Test Kit Annotations update

August 11, 2022 Aug 11, 2022 08/11/22
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 ...

Drag and drop library for Jetpack Compose

July 28, 2022 Jul 28, 2022 07/28/22
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 ...