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SPEAKER: Welcome to Now in Android,
your ongoing guide to what's new at notable in the world
of Android development.
We launched Compose Camp, a series
of in-person and virtual sessions
where you can learn how to build Android apps with Jetpack
Compose alongside your peers.
Compose Camp has two tracks.
The beginner track caters to complete Android beginners,
including people that have no coding experience.
And the experienced track is for Android developers
who want to learn how to migrate to Compose and stop using XML.
See how you can participate in a Compose Camp near you
in the post.
Speaking of Compose, we have a brand-new MAD Skill series
on Compose.
In the first episode, you'll learn
how to change your thinking to coding with Compose.
Building with Compose lets you focus on what and not how,
unlike the View system.
In other words, you declare what you want your UI to contain,
but you don't tell it step-by-step how to do it.
Learn more about how to think in Compose in this episode.
The next episode covers composable functions,
the building blocks of Compose.
You can create composable functions
by using the composable annotation.
Because composables are quick and easy to create,
it's easy to organize your UI into a library
of reusable components.
Learn more about how to create composable functions
in this episode.
Android Studio Dolphin is here.
This release focuses on three key themes--
Jetpack Compose, Wear OS, and development productivity.
Exciting features include the Compose animation inspector,
the Wear OS emulator pairing assistant, and Gradle Managed
virtual devices.
Learn all about the new cool features
in the blog post or the video.
There has been a bunch of interesting stuff released
in AndroidX recently.
Notably, annotation version 1.5.01 stable
and was fully migrated to Kotlin sources,
resulting in support for Kotlin-specific target use
sites and other Kotlin-compatible annotation
features.
Activity version 1.6.0 and Fragment version 1.5.3
also went stable.
Drawer Layout version 1.2.0 is in alpha 1
and RecyclerView version 1.3.0 is in RC1.
Ben covered Compose composition tracing,
a new feature that allows showing composable functions
in the Android Studio Flamingo system trace profiler.
This feature gives you the low intrusiveness
from system tracing with method tracing levels
of details and composition.
This is great for checking your Compose app's performance
and working out why your app might not
be performing as you expect.
Learn more about this feature in the post.
Next, the deep links crash course
continues with an article from Summers,
when he writes on troubleshooting deep links.
He goes over common issues that can occur with deep links
and how to solve them.
In episode 189 of Android Developers Backstage,
Tor and Chet spoke with Marc, Toni, and Andrew
from the Android media team, where
they work on video technologies and APIs like ExoPlayer.
They talked about the evolution of ExoPlayer and platform media
capabilities as well as ongoing and near future features.
That's it for this week with Compose Camp, MAD Skills
Compose, Android Studio Dolphin, AndroidX releases, Jetpack
Compose tracing, deep links, and a new episode of ADB.
Come back soon for the next update from the Android
Developers universe.
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