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.
Blog Posts
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.
Dot. Dash. Design
Mastering Lines in Jetpack Compose with PathEffect
How to style your lines, shapes and paths with dots, dashes and stamped shapes in Jetpack Compose Canvas using PathEffect.
Graceful Exits: Implementing Close Confirmation for Jetpack Compose ModalBottomSheet
Ensure users don’t lose their input accidentally — add a simple confirmation dialog.
When a user accidentally taps out of a ModalBottomSheet or closes it they may lose any input they have added or changes they have made, it is easy to add a close confirmation dialog before closing the sheet!
Camouflage the Status Bar with Edge-to-Edge Jetpack Compose Screens and Dialogs
From Foreground to Fading Background
Ditch the jarring contrast of dark system bars against your vibrant app visuals. Edge-to-edge drawing in Jetpack Compose lets you transform those bars into chameleons, adapting to your UI’s colors and textures. Watch as they melt into the background, creating a unified canvas that captivates users.
Seeing your composable in shades of grey
Creating a greyscale modifier in Jetpack Compose and how to make complex composables look disabled.
What to do when you really need to keep text from resizing and how to check how your composables look with different font scales using previews.
