It is with heavy heart that I must announce that Styling Android is on indefinite hiatus with immediate effect. Throughout 2021 I have been having to deal with increasing levels of piracy. I have been spending increasing amounts of time dealing with this. It has simply become too much. Creating new content for Styling Android…

UI testing on Android has been tricky. However, Jetpack Compose makes it much easier. In a recent post we looked at how we can easily test adaptive layouts. But we can take this further. In another recent post, we created a strikethru animation overlay. In this post, we’ll look at how we can test the…

Regular readers of Styling Android will know that I rather like animating things. That’s a topic that I’ve covered frequently! There’s an occasional series where I cover techniques for animating icons. For togglable icons this generally uses <animated-selector />. However, Compose does not support this. If you try and inflate a resource containing...

Back in February 2020, I wrote about how location is becoming more complex in terms of privacy. The primary motivation around that post was that Bluetooth scans and pairing require ACCESS_LOCATION_FINE permission which can be confusing for the user. Why should an app that connects to a Bluetooth device require access to my location? The…

In a recent post on Styling Android we looked SlidingPanelLayout. This can simplify the implementation of a List / Detail UI. It handles the logic of whether to show a side-by-side layout or a two-page layout depending on the screen size. Currently, there is no equivalent for this in Jetpack Compose. In this article, we’ll…

In a recent post on Styling Android we looked SlidingPanelLayout. This can simplify the implementation of a List / Detail UI. It handles the logic of whether to show a side-by-side layout or a two-page layout depending on the screen size. Currently, there is no equivalent for this in Jetpack Compose. In this article, we’ll…