Jetpack Compose: Why you shouldn’t use LocalContext for Strings
A deep dive into LocalResources.current vs LocalContext.current
Blog Posts
Theming Your App for the Holidays
’Tis the season for festive flair! As the holidays roll around, giving your app a seasonal makeover is a fantastic way to delight your users and inject some joy into their experience. Dynamically update your Android app theme any time you want to add some holiday cheer!
From File to Fetch: Mastering Lottie Animation Sources in Jetpack Compose
How to use different animation sources when loading animations with Lottie in Jetpack Compose, show loading, handle retries and error states and configure your animations to show them at their best!
Widgets with Glance: Displaying Images
From drawables, from bitmaps, from a url — from anywhere!
Widgets with Glance: Beyond String States
Use a custom GlanceStateDefinition to manage your GlanceAppWidget state in a typesafe way and optionally implement custom serialization or storage solution.
Widgets with Glance: Blending in
Use dynamic colors from your wallpaper in your Widget GlanceTheme
Widgets with Glance: Standing out
Detect wallpaper colors so transparent widgets do not get lost in the background
Debugging dependencies in Gradle
How to use dependencyInsight and fix transient dependencies to specific versions in your Android app
Protect your code from Gemini in Android Studio
The Studio Bot is great, but be sure you are not sharing proprietary code unintentionally
How to use an `.aiexclude` file to protect your code and keep your intellectual property safe.
Only Show the Tip of the Iceberg
Using LocalInspectionMode to hide code from your Jetpack Compose Previews
Sometimes you need or want to show different content or exclude code from your Jetpack Compose Previews. It is easy to use LocalInspectionMode.current to check if the composable is in a Preview.
