Rebecca Franks
@riggaroo.dev
Android DevRel at Google Animations, graphics and all things #JetpackCompose South African living in the UK 🇿🇦🇬🇧 https://riggaroo.dev
Jetpack Compose 1.12 has been released! So many new goodies to look at: 🌅 Mesh Gradient support - along with support inside Android Studio for editing ✌🏻 Interactive Two-Stage Transitions 💬 Many text features such as editable text formatting android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/jetp...
What's new in the Jetpack Compose August '26 release
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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OK, I published jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #325! Compose 1.0 five-year anniversary! 1.12.0 RC! Memory leaks! Remote Compose for debugging! And... @aditlal.dev has been through the desert with a state with no name?!? jetc.dev/issues/325 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev
This might be my sign to open my own bakery. The production team took this photo and I'm seriously considering a career switch now because what do you mean 🤩 Oh yeah we did a #JetpackCompose live stream with it in the background, you can watch that here 😁 www.youtube.com/live/Np7Rsqt...
And we are now live! 📺 Join us now to celebrate the evolution of #JetpackCompose, and learn whats in the baking in the kitchen 👀 Ask your questions for the team in the live chat 💬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np7R...
Jetpack Compose 5th-Anniversary: Livestream Birthday Party 🎈
Jetpack Compose is 5! 🎂 To celebrate this major milestone, we’re looking back at the journey of Jetpack Compose - from its initial internal prototype days in 2017, announcing the first stable…
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ITS TODAY!!! 🎂 Jetpack Compose 1.0 is turning 5, and we’re throwing a livestream birthday bash to celebrate! Join us as we look back at how Compose completely changed the Android UI game and answer your questions live. 🗓 When: July 30 @ 13:00 UTC / 6 AM PT 📺 Where: goo.gle/4fxMBLj
I published vibrance-0.1.0 on Maven, now with support for Compose for Desktop (JVM). The APIs let you mix colors yourself, or draw gradients as modifiers or Compose brushes. Next steps: refine the model training to improve some color transitions, better alpha support. github.com/romainguy/vi...
Ever looked at a complex animation and thought, "There is no way I can build that"? 🤯 With any new animation in #JetpackCompose, I ask myself these three questions: 1️⃣ WHAT properties are being changed in this? 2️⃣ WHEN does it animate? 3️⃣ HOW should it animate? youtu.be/HNSKJIQtb4c?...
Official mesh gradient support #JetpackCompose is coming soon👀 available in Compose 1.12 alphas at the moment! what other graphical effects do you want?
Google IO 2026 is a wrap! 🥳 Our #JetpackCompose talk is now available online! 😎 Learn all about how to Build custom design systems with Jetpack Compose's new Styles API io.google/2026/explore...
A few weeks ago we released Android Skills, a repository of curated agent skills for Android development best practices. 👩🏻🍳 This library bundles official docs and has a great set to start with! github.com/android/skills
GitHub - android/skills
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🤖 I've just open-sourced a new set of skills, covering Kotlin, Compose and Android development. Very early days, but it covers a lot of things which crop up in code review regularly. github.com/chrisbanes/s...
GitHub - chrisbanes/skills: Skills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android development
Skills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android development - chrisbanes/skills
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#JetpackCompose version 1.11 has landed! So many new APIs to try out along with some important changes. We've also detailed 4 (!) new large Experimental APls that we are actively looking for feedback on: 💅🏻 Styles! 🚥 Grid 💪🏻 FlexBox 🎞️ MediaQuery android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/jetp...
Loved this inspirational example of building out motion blurring in #JetpackCompose from @piotr_prus 💓 Sometimes the smallest of effects can make your app just feel *that* much more fun! proandroiddev.com/motion-blur-...
My fav new feature in the latest Android release is "Connected Displays".🖥️ You are able to plug in your phone to a big screen, and benefit from all the extra space that the screen provides 🤯 This means you should *really* ensure your app works on diff screen sizes.
Hey, I just mailed out jetc.dev Newsletter Issue #303! @brwngrldev.bsky.social on reducing development friction! Line graphs! CMP IDE plugin! Syntax highlighting! And... can we *finally* get rid of ViewModel?!? jetc.dev/issues/303 #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev
Come and chat with us on Feb 5th 😊 we'll (try to) answer your questions about Gemini in Android Studio, and share some tips & tricks 👩🔬 With @josealcerreca.bsky.social, @astamato.bsky.social, @nosuid.bsky.social, Joe Birch and a few more! Join in → goo.gle/3O7dfk0
👀 Want to see a preview of what's coming up in #JetpackCompose? We heard you that debugging shared elements is tricky. In 1.11.0-alpha03, a new composable LookaheadAnimationVisualDebugging was added. Wrap your SharedTransitionLayout to add visual cues to track down those hard to debug issues. 🐛⤵️
#JetpackCompose executes your code in different phases, which causes some parts of the @Composable function to be executed separately from each other. Crashes in these phases can result in stack traces that are hard to decipher, making it difficult to pinpoint the exact line of code that crashed 💥
Quick reminder that the Nav3 engineering team will be live in 1 hour answering questions. Ask anything you like about Nav3 using #AskAndroid. Livestream is here: www.youtube.com/live/JsugLEM...
Navigation 3 #AskAndroid | Spotlight Week
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Another new feature in Compose 1.10 is the new: Modifier.scrollableArea() 📜 Think of it like this: Modifier.scrollable() tells you how the pointer moved, while Modifier.scrollableArea() translates that pointer movement into how the content should move within a typical scrollable view.
If you want to reduce your ANR rate... enable R8! 🥁 Honestly the numbers from Reddit here are wildly impressive, with 30% less ANRs, 40% faster app startup and frame rate improvement of 25% 😱 Checkout the video from @keyboardsurfer.dev to learn more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqO2...
Boost Android app performance with the R8 optimizer | Spotlight Week
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Compose 1.10 was released yesterday! 🔟 It includes some nice new features: 🧞♀️ Support for dynamic shared elements 👰🏻♀️ New Enter/Exit Transitions: unveilIn / veilOut ⏭️ Modifier.skipToLookaheadPosition() 📦 New retain APIs influenced by Circuit android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/what...
What's new in the Jetpack Compose December '25 release
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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A great write-up from Perk about how they adopted Compose Multiplatform! Cool to see this from an app that I actually use regularly.
Compose Multiplatform at Perk: A Pragmatic Look at Our Journey So Far
Reducing duplication and bringing our teams closer together
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New blog post on how to render beautiful soft shadows projected by the user's finger with Jetpack Compose. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/f...
Customizing the cache window lets you prefetch content on Jetpack Compose LazyLayouts. Combining it with pausable composition and text prefetching is a winning combination.
Deeper Performance Considerations
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Don't ignore this tip! We've switched to using the optimized proguard file & shrinking resources in our latest release and have seen a massive drop in all performance related metrics, with slow app launch metrics dropping >30%. All from a 5 minute code change!
Ben Weiss@keyboardsurfer.dev · 9mo agoRun this and let me know the output: `grep "dontoptimize" app/build/outputs/mapping/release/configuration.txt` In case it's not empty, you definitely should watch this youtu.be/QqO2jZ-NZko?...
A Reddit mod has spent years tearing down the coding bootcamp space, relentlessly attacking the leading bootcamp: Codesmith. This is, by far, the most fucked up thing I've seen on Reddit: larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...
The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator
Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...
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📢 The androidx.compose.material.icons library is no longer recommended for displaying Material Icons in Compose. We have stopped publishing updates to this library & it has been removed from the latest Material 3 library release, you can still manually reference it if you cannot migrate.
