🧪🖼️Very happy to announce that alpha01 of the Compose Preview Screenshot Testing tool is out!

There are some features coming later this year, but we'd love to get your feedback on the command-line use cases, performance, compatibility, etc.

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Super excited to finally share my #GoogleIO video on 🫶 designing scalable Compose APIs 🫶 - feedback is always welcome! Now I'm off to watch the other IO vids that just got out 😏🤙

youtube.com/watch?v=JvbyGc…

There were a lot of deliberate decisions behind the approach we took for adding compile time type safety to Navigation Compose including using existing compiler plugins instead of writing our own, minimizing 'infectious' Navigation dependencies, and more.

Pssst, I heard something about a talk on designing scalable, reusable and overall super gorgeous Compose APIs 🤫🤫 tune in soon 📻 😏

1.7.0-alpha06 🚨, this is when item appearance/disappearance are planned to be released for LazyColumn and LazyRow. Migration will be tough though. You'll have to remove 'Placement' from 'Modifier.animateItemPlacement' #JetpackCompose #androiddev
issuetracker.google.com/issues/1508122…

🥳 We have just published more official guidance on testing!

Whether you optimize your app for different screens or not, you should verify that it works correctly on any device with automated tests.

And it's not just about adaptive layouts!

developer.android.com/training/testi…

Keep submitting your #AskAndroid questions and we'll answer them on the 🔴 livestream today. Send me all of your #JetpackCompose questions!

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It's only a Baseline Profile if it originates from the benchmarking region of AndroidDev.
✨ Otherwise it's just sparkling JIT compilation. ✨

I haven't seen an easier way to gain around 1/3 startup and runtime performance improvements.
goo.gle/baseline-profi…

Rebecca Franks wrote about using our AndroidX Shapes library to create and animate rounded shapes. The code helps, er, smooth the path between the raw Shapes API and how to call it from Compose code. (Look for future APIs that make this even easier).
medium.com/androiddevelop…

Strong skipping mode is an experimental feature in the #jetpackcompose compiler that is currently being tested. Learn all about what it is, why we developed it, and how to enable it, in this blog!

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Android 15 at the starting gate! Lots more to come as we develop the release... android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/02/first-…

receiveContent modifier is a new experimental API coming your way in foundation module in the upcoming 1.7. alpha releases.

The Jetpack Compose team is looking for a product manager to focus on performance. If you are interested, check out the details at google.com/about/careers/…

Hi #AndroidDev 👋

Do you have an example of a screen (or part of a screen) that was simplified when migrated from Views to Compose? Please share some snippets/examples!

Android is the first mobile OS to ship state-of-the-art, hardware -accelerated LLM as a system service. More info on Android AICore and Gemini Nano: android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/a-new-…

My team at Google is hiring in London! We're looking for mid-level Android developers who want to work in the 'UI Architecture' layer of Jetpack i.e., Paging, Fragments, Lifecycle, Activity, Navigation and SavedState as we focus on Jetpack Compose and KMP
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My 'Migrating to Jetpack Compose - an interop story 🫶' video from #dcldn23 is out 🥰. Hope you enjoyed it and let me know your thoughts 🤙

droidcon.com/2023/11/15/mig…

The video for my talk 'Easy Screenshot Testing' from Droidcon London is out now!

droidcon.com/2023/11/15/eas…

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