Implementing your custom pagination in Jetpack Compose
The Paging library has incredible features for developers, but sometimes you encounter challenges and are forced to create custom pagination. At the beginning of the chapter, we talked about complex code bases having or creating pagination.
In this recipe, we will look into how we can achieve this with a simple list example and how you can use this example to create custom pagination in your application.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will need to create a new project and call it CustomPagingExample.
How to do it…
In our example project, we will try to create a student profile card and use custom pagination to load the profiles in Jetpack Compose.
- For this recipe, let us go ahead and add the
lifecycle-ViewModeldependency since we will need it:implementation "Androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-compose:2.x.x"
- Let’s go ahead and create a new package and call it
data. In our...