Tom Koptel

@zsmb13 That is awesome. Was looking for one and here it is 😍 Many thanks @zsmb13 your are my hero!!!

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Found a fun opportunity for a live stream: Aurimas Liutikas will teach me how to profile Gradle configuration times, and maybe we'll fix something in kotlinconf-app! Thursday, 8am PT / 5pm CET twitch.tv/zsmb13 Mark your calendar for a reminder: addcal.io/e/5t99s5irjfqs

@alexstyl @knacid @alexstyl so using androidx.compose.ui.graphics.vector.ImageVector is better than Android XML vector in terms of the build times?

@knacid Потому что добавление объектов Kotlin увеличивает время сборки.

Been cooking something very special for my Android Dev homies.

@JorgeCastilloPr @Composable fun Welcome(){ Column { Text(text = "👋") Text(text = "Hello, dear community 🙂") } }

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@Zhuinden I believe the question is not 'what is quicker?', but rather 'what brings the most confidence for development?' Ultimately, we cultivate confidence that may lead to quicker iterations, but this is more of a pleasant side effect than a goal.

When someone tells you that Jetpack Compose makes them "iterate quicker than ever", always keep in mind that rendering both a background and a border doesn't work reliably and you have to add 1.dp padding. Open issue since April 2022. So, what is faster? issuetracker.google.com/issues/2289859…

In Firebender v0.5.1 , NEVER copy code manually again. Just click the proverbial button and AI merges the code intelligently into your current editor. Do less and profit >:)

@stewemetal Good luck with a talk 🤞

On my way to #DevFestVenezia 2024 🤩 Another great opportunity to meet some amazing people and talk about #JetpackCompose and CMP previews 🤩 #AndroidDev

@Zhuinden Can you point out why the Constraint layout is the least trustworthy component? Any other bad experiences using it?

So the bug was that having a ConstraintLayout, in a Column or Row with Modifier.fillMaxSize. ...that's it, that's the bug. Loving it when Compose shows its fangs as a production-ready framework, though ConstraintLayout in Compose has always been the least trustworthy component.

@_takahirom_ @_takahirom_ thank you, that is a great piece of the software, love it ❤️

Currently implementing test preview display in Roborazzi for Android Studio and IntelliJ Plugin. If you have any feedback, please let me know. You can view Roborazzi images related to a specific test or @ Preview function. github.com/takahirom/robo…

@Zhuinden Nice summary from article. Thank you for sharing 🙂

@TomKoptel Personally, I chalk it up to Cargo Cult Programming + people being unwilling to question what they're given. This article by Alexsandra Sikora goes into detail on how people often assume something made by others are "better because someone else made it". aleksandra.codes/tech-content-c…

The idea behind MVI isn't inherently bad. There's actually a very specific use-case in which the idea behind MVI shines. The idea is called the Command Processor Pattern, allowing for the implementation of showing a list of executed commands, undo, redo. cs.sjsu.edu/~pearce/module…

@VasiliyZukanov Nice summary 👍As a side question, do you know if any recent updates to AndroidX has official way of injecting one instance of the view model into another through constrctor? At the moment, I do rely on the method injection from the Activity/Fragment.

New Android bit about ViewModel is out! 📢 In this video: what's the relationship between ViewModel, MVP, retained Fragments and custom non-config instances; unique ViewModel's features. Older Android devs, how did you write apps before ViewModel saved the day?

@VasiliyZukanov Nice trick, thanks for sharing :) The nice thing is that the trick with the manifest merger is applicable not only to the Firebase messaging case, bu essentially any other node defined in the AndroidManifest which can be manipulated with the manifest merger.

New post that shows a little hack to test Firebase Cloud Messaging pushes to Android apps locally using ADB. techyourchance.com/test-firebase-…

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@VasiliyZukanov Best wishes! Everyone Happy New Year 🌟

Happy New Year Android'ers! I wish you stable APIs, no deprecation and empty bug tracking dashboards in 2024! And, most importantly, lots of happy, memorizable moments with your families 🍾

@VasiliyZukanov Just for the reference here is an alternative github.com/AutSoft/Krate I've recalled as soon as saw a thread. @VasiliyZukanov do you need assistance with the maintenance of the lib?

I have an open-source lib that wraps Shared Preferences and gives them proper Object-Oriented API. I think it's great, but it's not widely used. Wonder if it's worth investing time into its promotion, so please help me out with your vote 📢 Do you use Shared Preferences?

@wesjon @VasiliyZukanov @wejson I'm using it for the snapshot testing on JVM, though it is not perfect. I need to host code in lib module. Interactions like click, swipes are not support or at least I didn't find a good way to trigger those.

@VasiliyZukanov @TomKoptel There is CashApp's Paparazzi that allows you to do screenshot and gif tests on the JVM. It's fast, easy to setup and works great with Compose. Closest thing to "UI unit test".

Just finished my first ever moderately complex "home" screen using Jetpack Compose. Took 21 hours in total, which is a lot. That said, it includes several experiments of integrating Compose with Fragments and extracting top and bottom bars for reuse.

@VasiliyZukanov The code definition works the best for the to cross platform compose. XML for backward compatibility. It is worth to check how day-night theming or color derived from the OS would fit both models. If app is expected to load colors from API the code is the best place.

When building a custom theme with Jetpack Compose, should I define colors in code or in XML? In other words, this: val c = Color(0xFFFFB400) OR this: val c = colorResource(id = R.color.some_color) What are the pros and cons of each approach?

@carlvellotti Thank you for sharing:) Can you suggest any good reading that describes a justification for the sprint planning? I always felt this to be ineffective. I believe the Kanban flow is more effective.

Great visual for seeing how: • Strategy • Goals • Roadmap • Sprints All tie into each other.

@VasiliyZukanov Й hardly stands out for me, but ХУ can be spotted very easily 😝

Только я вижу здание обрамленное повторяющимся словом...? 😅