@ianlake.bsky.social
Android Toolkit Developer and Runner Also at: - https://androiddev.social/@ianlake - https://twitter.com/ianhlake
The return of my favorite series!
04.08.2025 05:28 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
It helps that we're doing a lot more in the Compose layer this time around (because for Nav3, there is no other layer), but I think it is also just a concerted goal on our part to ensure that every piece of Nav3 is just a collection of smaller building blocks.
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Just a note to fill feature requests for these type of things if you find yourself building them - I was shocked that no one had ever actually filed a feature request for this on the issue tracker.
Maybe we're missing a whole bunch more of these kinds of helpers? Don't suffer in silence ๐ญ
There were a lot of other releases today including Compose Material3 1.4.0-beta01, Paging 3.4.0-alpha02, and new Wear releases as well, so make sure to read all of the release notes for the details.
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NavigationEvent 1.0.0-alpha05 is out with a number of significant changes including nested dispatchers (e.g., only allowing the current page in a HorizontalPager to handle system back), a new testing library, and more APIs moving to commonMain.
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Lifecycle 2.10.0-alpha01 is also out today with new Compose APIs to create nested Lifecycles (e.g., only allowing the current page in a HorizontalPager to be RESUMED) as well as CreationExtras improvements and nullable support for saved {}
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Navigation 2.9.3 includes an important bug fix for ConcurrentModificationExceptions as well as a regression in passing through NavigationExtras.
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Benchmark 1.4.0 has improvements around:
- Microbenchmark: coroutines improvements!
- Macrobenchmark: Startup Insights!
- Baseline Profiles: support for multi-process apps
- TraceProcessor: split into its own module
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Today's #JetpackReleaseNotes include Benchmark 1.4.0, Browser 1.9.0, Security Crypto's final deprecation in 1.1.0 stable, bug fixes in Navigation 2.9.3 and WorkManager 2.10.3, Compose 1.9.0-rc01, new alphas for Lifecycle+SavedState, plus a ton of XR updates!
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This is something we're looking into this week actually.
22.07.2025 18:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I think some of the upcoming changes in the lower level NavigationEvent library will help here, since then it'll tell you the current state (e.g., a list of length 4) and what would happen after a pop (e.g., a list of length 2) so you can mirror that.
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Let me know if you ran into any issues or if there's anything we can improve! Changes are a lot easier to make while we're still in alpha. ๐
19.07.2025 05:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Using the bundled driver is a requirement if you are using Room on any non-Android platform at all, so you probably _are_ using it.
What this does is allow changing the migration ordering: instead of migrating every Support SQLite call to Driver first, you can migrate to Driver first and use this
There were a lot of other releases today including Car App 1.7.0 (with a vulnerability fix!), important fixes in Camera Viewfinder 1.5.0-beta03, and Pdf 1.0.0-alpha10, so make sure to look through all of the release notes for the details!
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Room 2.7 added support for using the BundledSQLiteDriver which provides a consistent SQLite experience across Android versions and across platforms. Room 2.8.0-alpha01 adds a new room-sqlite-wrapper artifact that makes incremental migration to the Driver easier.
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Today's #JetpackReleaseNotes include more KMP platform support in Lifecycle 2.9.2 and SavedState 1.3.1, bug fixes in Navigation 2.9.2 and TV Material 1.0.1, Compose 1.9.0-beta03, and new tools to migrate to Bundled SQLite in Room 2.8.0-alpha01.
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Well, the live wallpaper APIs are very low level - your implementation of WallpaperService creates an Engine, which gives you access to the SurfaceHolder for drawing your wallpaper.
At that point, you actually need a graphics tutorial more than anything else. ๐
Live wallpaper apps always felt like one of the best ways to really customize your Android phone, which is part of why I got into working with @roman.nurik.net on #Muzei so many years ago. So glad to see people still enjoying it!
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It's been a minute but want to re-share @danlew42.bsky.social's evergreen post about the LOGAF scale. I've found it super helpful over the years in defusing work/OSS discussions.
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Dialog instances are reusable, so no, we can't just leave it in a destroyed state.
What work were you doing after onStop()? Generally, you have you stopped doing work in onStop
I'm on vacation, but the #JetpackReleaseNotes don't stop! Navigation 2.9.1 fixes an important Lifecycle issue, Hilt 1.3.0-alpha02 decouples hiltViewModel() from Nav2, Paging 3.4.0-alpha01 adds more KMP platforms, and more!
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The recording of my @kotlinconf.com 2025 talk with Jeremy, "Lessons Learned Decoupling Architecture Components from Platform-Specific Code", is now live.
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDz_...
#AndroidDev #Kotlin #KMP
There were a lot of other releases today including tons of bug fixes in Wear Compose 1.5.0-beta04 and Navigation3 1.0.0-alpha04, so make sure to look through all of the release notes for the details!
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NavigationEvent 1.0.0-alpha03, our KMP first layer around system back, now has its own Compose integration module in navigationevent-compose that should look very familiar to those of you who have used the activity-compose APIs in the past.
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Ink 1.0.0-alpha05 adds new Compose integration modules to its authoring, brush, and geometry modules making it easier to consume and use Ink in Jetpack Compose apps.
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Benchmark 1.4.0-rc01 is the final step before stable - if you haven't had a chance to look at the App Startup Insights, FTL support, and improvements to baseline profile generation, now is the best time to make sure your existing benchmark setup upgrades cleanly
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WorkManager 2.10.2 is available today with a number of fixes around work with network constraints.
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Room 2.7.2 is out with bug fixes around schema generation, comments in Room SQL, and timeouts on iOS.
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More #JetpackReleaseNotes are out today with bug fix releases in Room 2.7.2, WorkManager 2.10.2, and Compose 1.8.3 alongside Compose 1.9.0-beta01 and brand new Compose integrations in Ink 1.0.0-alpha05 and NavigationEvent 1.0.0-alpha03.
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Album cover for 'Suffering from Success'
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