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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]

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Technical posts on Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and technology. 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://zachklipp.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/zachklipp.com

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 2y ago

BasicTextField bubble wrap

A little hack for adding (content) padding to your (decoration) boxes.

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 2y ago

Centering in Compose

Let’s talk about centering things. There is no `Modifier.center()` in Compose, nor is there a `Center` composable, and I think the reason for that is because once you understand Compose's layout system you'll find those concepts redundant. In this article I'm

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 2y ago

Talk: Deriving derived state: derivedStateOf explained

As a follow-up to my last snapshots talk, Opening the Shutter on Snapshots, I did a deep-dive into how Compose's derivedStateOf works.

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 2y ago

How derivedStateOf works: a deep d(er)ive

Compose's snapshot system is really neat. Once you know how it works, you can do some cool tricks with it, and derivedStateOf is a rich example

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 2y ago

Restartable functions from first principles

Often when thinking about Jetpack Compose state, we think in terms of what code will be re-executed when that state changes. We call functions

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 2y ago

How I migrated my blog

About a week ago, I migrated my blog to a New blog site! As I explained in that post, I was previously posting on dev.to, and while it mostly worked fine to post the content, I did not like having my content live on a domain name and I

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 2y ago

New blog site!

Welcome, you've successfully found the new home of my blog! It used to be on dev.to, but I was not comfortable with my posts living under a domain name I didn't control. I've moved all my old posts over here, but I'

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 3y ago

Talk: Reimagining text fields in Compose

I've spent the last six months working on a new BasicTextField. Check out what we've been working on!

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 3y ago

Back on Code with the Italians to talk about BasicTextField2

I was very excited to get to chat more with Seb and Ivan, this time about something I’ve been working on at Google: the new BasicTextField!

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 4y ago

I was on Code with the Italians!

Code with the Italians invited Halil and me on the show to talk about Compose Text. This was my first time here and we had so much fun! Seb and Ivan are excellent hosts.

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 4y ago

Talk: Opening the shutter on snapshots

I had so much fun writing about Compose's state system that I decided to give a talk about how the snapshot system's algorithm works. I gave this talk initially at droidcon NYC in 2022, then again the next year at droidcon SF.

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Zach Klippenstein’s Blog [Unofficial]@zachklipp.com.web.brid.gy · 4y ago

Talk: The Workflow Pattern, Composed

### Slides: The Workflow Pattern, Composed (droidconSF 2022)Speaker Deck ### sources: The Workflow Pattern, Composed - droidconSquare, as we’ve told you over the last 4 Droidcons, has adopted the Workflow pattern - it’s now running about nearly two thirds of Square’s flagship Android codebase!

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