Tag: Android App Development
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GDG Melbourne DevFest 2025: The year that AI overtook Android
This year’s conference featured stunning talks on how AI agents can expand our skills and productivity.
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Material 3 Expressive makes my Android device feel like an iPhone
After receiving the Android 16 update containing the new Material 3 Expressive widgets on my Pixel 8a last week I immediately noticed some striking similarities to the iOS design language. Notably, the bolder, more bubbly text makes the Android status bar look almost indistinguishable from its Apple equivalent. Can you tell which is which below?
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Compose text field API to replace onValueChange & VisualTransformation
Previously, VisualTransformation was used for both input filtering and output formatting; now, the API gives us both InputTransformation and OutputTransformation in order to separate the logic.
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Android’s Edge-to-edge Activity API Simplifies Backwards Compatibility for Full-screen Layouts
This API can help anyone looking to implement edge-to-edge screen content in an app that supports Android SDK versions below Android 11.
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Scaling Mobile Teams: Lessons Learned
How did we scale from one squad with four mobile developers to five squads with over 20 developers while maintaining our ability to release new, high-quality features quickly with minimal issues? With a Mobile Platform team.
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GDG Melbourne Devfest 2024: Material 3, Copilot & Rethinking Navigation
This year’s Google Developers Group (GDG) Melbourne Devfest was another great day of learning about how Android teams are tackling issues around Compose design systems, navigation and AI tools.
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Bench Mate App Under the Hood: Kotlin Multiplatform, SqlDelight, Compose & Material 3 Dynamic Colour
My priority when building the Bench Mate app was to get an Android app into testing and production quickly. But I wanted to do as much as possible to make building an iOS version easier in the future.
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Introducing the Bench Mate App
Last year I started coaching my son’s football team and was immediately overwhelmed by the task of rotating the players on the bench. So I built an app!
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GDG Melbourne Devfest 2023: Gradle Version Catalogs, Tech Debt & Compose Design Systems
It was great to hear how other Android teams are tackling problems relating to build configurations and build times, architecture consistency, tech debt and structuring re-usable Jetpack Compose components.
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Compose Preview For Snackbars With Interactive Mode
If you’re building a custom Compose component that has transient state such as a Snackbar there are a couple of things you’ll need to do to get the preview working as expected.
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