Alex Styl
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INTRODUCING COMPOSE ICONS
Great apps need great icons
so here is a collection of over 7,400 of them!
Pick any icon from popular icon libraries such as Radix, Lucide, Material & Bootstrap and add them to your designs or code with one click
Cool? Go to
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I made a little app to share files from Android to Mac.
Leave a "👋" below if you want to try it out.
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Just made a SVG to Jetpack Compose online converter
SVGs goes in, Composables come out
Try it out at
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What if ChatGPT could use other apps on your phone?
Hacked this in 24h
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Jetpack Compose can seem daunting after years of using Android Views.
Let's speed up your learning of Compose using things you already know from Views 👇
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You asked me to do something about Android permissions, I heard you.
🛡 Introducing Warden
A lightweight API that allows you to request permissions and handle the result from any coroutine with one line✨
🌟 Star it on Github @ github com/alexstyl/warden
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My first AI app is now on the Play Store 🍾
Hacked in 24 hours to learn how create photos using AI
Unbelievable how much eye candy 🍬 you can make with it
Grab it 👉
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Seems like the twitter competitor is built using Jetpack Compose
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Kotlin feels like someone took all the best parts of a bunch of languages, mixed them together, then served them with a standard library with actually standard use-cases and I think that's great.
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"Works great on Pixels but doesnt work on the smallest Samsung on multiwindow in german"
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Jetpack Compose is the future of UI on Android
Did you know that Compose is multiplatform though?
You can use it to build 🤖 Android, 🪟 Windows, 🍎 macOS and 🐧 Linux apps too.
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Made a Jetpack Compose coding assistant GPT, using all data available on Composables.
Try it out to become better at Jetpack Compose
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Jetpack Compose Compiler 1.5.0 is out
With Kotlin 1.9.0 support
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1.5 years ago I quit my full time job to figure out how to make a living online.
so far I made:
1-6 months – $639
6-12 months- $3.9k
12-18 months - $8.5k
total - $13k
still figuring things out, happy to answer any questions to help you out.
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Let's break this Jetpack Compose line down so that you understand what is happening under the hood.
👇
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
Use Column to arrange composables the one below the other.
It has some built-in functionality to lay out items horizontally and vertically.
Watch to learn more:
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I am giving away my Jetpack Compose book, View to Composable, until the end of the year for as little as $ 1
I have received incredible amounts of support recently for my Compose content and this is a little thank you 🎁
Happy 2023 Devs 🎄
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Weirdest thing with Android Studio
Does anyone get music/audio distorted when they launch an android emulator?
I am listening music on Spotify, I start an emulator and suddenly the music is messed up until I close the emulator.
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I made a list of all Composables available in Material 3 Jetpack Compose 🎨 with pictures and their signatures
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
Learn how to request permissions 🚓 from your composables using the ActivityResultContract API.
Continue watching to learn how:
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An Android dev tip that no one is talking about:
If the emulator is too slow for you, consider using an older emulator instead of the latest one.
🐢 API 30 can barely be used on my 7 y.o mbp
🚀 API 21 is near smooth and Compose works great!
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🚀 A thread with all Jetpack Compose videos I've made (so far) for easy access:
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
Compose makes it simple to create scrolling lists. No need for adapters, viewholders or complex layouts.
You can use LazyColumn or LazyRow to achieve this ↔️↕️
Learn how to create scrolling lists:
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Too many people asking for the app, can't reply to everyone of you.
Download the app at
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I feel like there is not much Android Dev presence on Twitter these days.
A few months ago, you would see what people were building and learning on Android, but not much anymore.
Am I missing something is it the same for you too?
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I built a little tool to setup new Android projects super fast 🚀
Sets up a module with Jetpack Compose, analytics, crash reporting, permissions etc in seconds.
WIP. will push it to once done
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Compose Tinder Card is now available! 🔥
It's an open source Jetpack Compose Modifier that enables Tinder like gestures to any composable function.
Now available on Maven Central.
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
Use the SwipeToDismiss composable to enable swipe to dismiss functionality when required (i.e list items or snackbars)
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She's a 10 but she tells me to implement the iOS designs on Android
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New Jetpack Compose article is up 🚀
Learn how to model complex screens 👩🎨 and how to organize your composables 🤹
Click below to learn more
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TIL Kotlin has anonymous objects
I have been using data classes all this time to hold simple structs
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Jetpack Compose tip 💡
Use existing Views you have in your composables by using the AndroidView() composable.
No need to rewrite everything from scratch 🙌
Watch to learn how:
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This is an accountability post
I messed up my health and I am working towards fixing it. How it happened and what I am doing to fix it.
The story:
About 2 years ago, on August 2021, I quit my full time job to figure out how to make a living on my own. I wanted to learn how to
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My startup 🦾 Composables is now live on Product Hunt! 🎉
100+ professionally crafted Jetpack Compose components, resources and tools to build your apps blazing fast
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
You can still use LiveData, RxJava or Flow's to represent state in Jetpack Compose.
Continue watching to learn how:
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I'm happy to announce that is finally live!
✨ Beautiful UI built with Jetpack Compose
The very first UI Kit is now available. More to come soon.
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There is this API no one is talking about but it really shines in Jetpack Compose
It makes starting other apps and asking for stuff like photos 🖼️, documents 📄, files 🗂️ super simple
I am talking about ActivityResultContracts 👇
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Kotlin 1.9 introduced the 'data object' construct.
The fact it has a nicer `toString()` than object alone is a solid reason for me to use.
Can finally get rid of the kotlin-reflect for this case
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The Compose Tinder Card tweet got 15k impressions and 400+ upvotes, likes and stars.
Here is how the animation works under the hood so that you can create your own Jetpack Compose animations:
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Throwback to Google IO 2019 when Google announced they are working on a new UI framework for Android called Jetpack Compose
I remember having a 🤯 moment seeing that as I had only worked with XML in the past
Checkout that API. Things have improved so much since
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Kotlin tip 💡
A super simple way to remove any duplicate items from a collection:
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Did you know that Compose has a Marquee Modifier?
`Modifier.basicMarquee()`
Can be used to animate text like this:
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⚡️ BONUS ⚡️
Here is a Cheat Sheet to quickly go through when you need a reminder.
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Find any Jetpack Compose composables straight from your Chrome search bar.
Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines then add '' as a new search engine
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Kotlin tip 💡
Measure how long a block of code takes using `measure {}`
It returns a Duration object when the lambda passed to it is complete.
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You have already seen this line of code before.
It is how you create a state in Jetpack Compose.
It can be quite cryptic at first so let's break it down to make sense of it:
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
Use a LazyVerticalGrid to place your composables within a grid 🎛️
Specify the min size for each cell, or a set number of columns per cell.
Watch to learn more:
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
Use Box to place composables the one on top of the other.
There is one more nice use case for it.
Watch to find out:
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Gave Jetpack Compose Navigation a go today after a long time.
We finally got animations when navigating! But the default animation is a fade out one instead of this one in the Material specs.
Has anyone ever built or wrote such transitions that I can copy and paste?
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Heads up. is 100% free to use for everyone.
The site has been a few phases over the past few months and I have decided to remove the paywall.
If you found anything that requires you to pay, let me know cause it's a bug.
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Jetpack Compose tip 💡
Use the CompositionLocalProvider to make styling of your composable simpler and more consistent in your app. 🎨
Continue watching to learn how:
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One of my favorite things about Compose is how easy it is to work with lists.
♻️ Easy recycling
🍯 Sticky Headers
🍱 Support for different items
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Android Studio tip 💡
Press ⌥ (Ctrl for Windows) twice and without releasing it, press down or up to expand your cursor.
Useful for when you need to do the same editing in multiple lines of code.
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How to use the Jetpack Compose navigation 🧭 library to navigate between your screens.
a tl;dr thread
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POV of a self driving car engineer but it's an Android dev instead
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I wrote an API in Kotlin + Flow to make using Contacts in Android straightforward to use.
No more ContentProvider for Contacts 😌
#androiddev
#android
#oss
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Navigation 🧭 in Android has always been confusing to implement.
What happens when I press back? What does UP do?
There are now 5 Navigation principles your app should follow for a consistent and intuitive UX across apps.
Let's go through each one👇
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📢 INTRODUCING 📢
The Jetpack Compose Starter Kit
A beautifully designed, fully functional contacts app built with Jetpack Compose.
🗓 February 1st
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Yesterday we built a Facebook clone using Jetpack Compose, Firebase Auth and Firestore live on YouTube.
Here is the full code
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
To request permissions, use the rememberLauncherForActivityResult() with the RequestPermission() contract.
This creates a launcher that you can use to request a permission.
Check out the snippet below for more info:
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In terms of learning curve from easiest to hardest my experience has been:
1. Java to Kotlin
2. Jetpack Compose
3. Coroutines
4. Arch Components
5. rxJava
how was yours?
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So glad I don't have to use Telegram/Whatsapp to share screenshots to my Mac Book anymore 🧘
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🎁 Happy Birthday to Jetpack Compose 🥳
v1.0 was released exactly 3 years ago
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📊 The State of Compose 2023 results are in 🚀
This is a short study to discover trends in the Compose community, frameworks and APIs people use and discover people in the community that share their valuable knowledge about Compose.
Let's go through the results:
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New Jetpack Compose article is out 🚀
Everything you need to know about Side Effects in Jetpack Compose with examples
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Material 2 vs Material 3 in Jetpack Compose
What are they and how are they different 👇
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Added a list of all categories 🍱 in to make is easier to find specific kind of components to use in Jetpack Compose.
Contains stuff like Buttons, Cards, Scaffolds, Tv, Wear, AppWidgets.
lmk if I missed any
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I feel like an idiot
All this time, I thought that selling to developers was considered B2B. Developer is a job title, so it's business related right? 100% false, and retrospectively obvious.
This month I started focusing on (real) B2B cases to monetize my site and got a small
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Jetpack Compose tip 💡
The ComposeView works as a bridge between Jetpack Compose and Android Views.
Use it to inject composables into your XML layout.
Continue watching to learn how:
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I just open-sourced a Jetpack Compose App template:
🚀 Kick-start Jetpack Compose apps in no time
🐁 Lean: No tech bloat
🔐 Permissions & a bunch of stuff handled out of the box for you
⭐️ Star it below:
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
The order of your Modifiers is going to affect the final result you are going to get. ⬜️→🔳
Watch to learn more:
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💬 I am happy to allocate 30 minutes with junior to mid Android devs that might need to chat around Android or tech career in general.
The chat will be informal and free of charge.
Would anyone be interested?
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November stats for
💰 $5,848.82 in revenue
💳 43 Membership sales
🏆 1 Sponsorship
Best month so far. Next step is bootstrapping a job board for Android Devs and currently looking for customers.
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Here are all the Jetpack Compose tools/resources/open-source I released/published in 2023:
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No one is talking about this medical condition, which is so common and can seriously mess you up if left untreated.
Last month, I felt the lowest I've ever felt: incredibly low energy, my mood was horrible, had to force myself to socialize with friends, and my libido was
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Jetpack Compose tip 🚀
Use a Row to place your composables the one next to each other. ↔️
It provides functionality to lay out items horizontally and vertically.
Watch to learn more:
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