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Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

By : Thomas Künneth
Book Image

Android UI Development with Jetpack Compose

By: Thomas Künneth

Overview of this book

Jetpack Compose is Android’s new framework for building fast, beautiful, and reliable native user interfaces. It simplifies and significantly accelerates UI development on Android using the declarative approach. This book will help developers to get hands-on with Jetpack Compose and adopt a modern way of building Android applications. The book is not an introduction to Android development, but it will build on your knowledge of how Android apps are developed. Complete with hands-on examples, this easy-to-follow guide will get you up to speed with the fundamentals of Jetpack Compose such as state hoisting, unidirectional data flow, and composition over inheritance and help you build your own Android apps using Compose. You'll also cover concepts such as testing, animation, and interoperability with the existing Android UI toolkit. By the end of the book, you'll be able to write your own Android apps using Jetpack Compose.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1:Fundamentals of Jetpack Compose
5
Part 2:Building User Interfaces
10
Part 3:Advanced Topics

Migrating to Material You

Material You is the latest iteration of Google's design language Material Design. It was announced during Google I/O 2021 and was first available on Pixel smartphones running Android 12. Eventually, it will be rolled out to other devices, form factors, and frameworks. Like its predecessors, Material You is based on typography, animation, and layers. But it emphasizes personalization: depending on the platform, Material You implementations may use color palettes derived from the system wallpaper.

Looking at some differences between Material 2 and Material 3 for Compose

To use Material You in your Compose app, you must add an implementation dependency to androidx.compose.material3:material3 in the module-level build.gradle file. The base package for composables, classes, and interfaces changes to androidx.compose.material3. If you want to migrate an existing Compose app to this new version, you at least need to change imports. Unfortunately, the names...