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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

Modifying the behavior of composable functions

Unlike components in traditional imperative UI frameworks, composable functions do not share a basic set of properties. They also do not automatically (in the sense of inheriting) reuse functionality. This must be done explicitly by calling other composables. Their visual appearance and behavior can be controlled through parameters, modifiers, or both. In a way, modifiers pick up the idea of properties in a component but enhance it – unlike properties of components, modifiers can be used completely at the discretion of the developer.

You have already seen quite a few modifiers in my examples, such as the following:

  • width()
  • fillMaxWidth()
  • fillMaxSize()

These control the width and size of the corresponding UI element; background() can set a background color and shape, while clickable {} allows the user to interact with the composable function by clicking on the UI element. Jetpack Compose provides an extensive...