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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 14/09/2026

Have you (like me 🫣) misunderstood the concept of a backwards-write in Compose? Well we have some new content on this topic! What is a backwards write? Its when state is modified in a later phase or downstream scope than where it was originally read from.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 27/08/2026

We've heard you wanted to be able to compare between different #JetpackCompose BOM versions - you can now do so easily here: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c... What else do you want from our developer documentation? 👀

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 25/08/2026

Shape shifting your UI to different devices got you puzzled? 🧩 🤔 Did you know that developer.android.com also contains loads of design guidelines to learn from? 🫨 If you are struggling to figure your designs out, we've gotcha covered! ✨ developer.android.com/design/ui/ga...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 24/08/2026

👀 Compose 1.13.0-alpha01 introduces a new CapturedAnimatedVisibility composable: It instantly disposes child content on exit, animating a static GraphicsLayer snapshot instead of keeping UI nodes alive. Our testing has shown: ⚡ ~8% faster exits 📉 ~7% fewer recompositions

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 13/08/2026

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...

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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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Mark Murphy @commonsware.com · 04/08/2026

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

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 30/07/2026

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...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 30/07/2026

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

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 21/07/2026

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...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 21/07/2026

We might really be doing this documentary though 👀

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 17/07/2026

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?...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 29/05/2026

Official mesh gradient support #JetpackCompose is coming soon👀 available in Compose 1.12 alphas at the moment! what other graphical effects do you want?

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 21/05/2026

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...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 13/05/2026

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

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GitHub - android/skills

Contribute to android/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Chris Banes @chrisbanes.me · 12/05/2026

🤖 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...

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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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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 23/04/2026

#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...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 05/03/2026

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-...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 04/03/2026

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.

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Mark Murphy @commonsware.com · 24/02/2026

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

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 16/01/2026

👀 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. 🐛⤵️

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 11/12/2025

#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 💥

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Don Turner @donaldturner.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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...

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Navigation 3 #AskAndroid | Spotlight Week

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 05/12/2025

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.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 05/12/2025

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...

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Boost Android app performance with the R8 optimizer | Spotlight Week

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 04/12/2025

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...

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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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Márton Braun @zsmb.co · 03/12/2025

A great write-up from Perk about how they adopted Compose Multiplatform! Cool to see this from an app that I actually use regularly.

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Compose Multiplatform at Perk: A Pragmatic Look at Our Journey So Far

Reducing duplication and bringing our teams closer together

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 29/11/2025

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...

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Ben Weiss @keyboardsurfer.dev · 20/11/2025

Customizing the cache window lets you prefetch content on Jetpack Compose LazyLayouts. Combining it with pausable composition and text prefetching is a winning combination.

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Deeper Performance Considerations

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Maria Neumayer @marianeum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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!

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Lars Lofgren @larslofgren.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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...

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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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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 26/09/2025

📢 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.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 24/09/2025

Thanks for having me on stream @peterfriese.dev @nohe.dev ❤️🧡

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 06/09/2025

My weekend in pictures, at this point I'm just dressing to see the bot results #androidify

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Joseph R. Lewis 周呂毅 @sanbeiji.com · 05/09/2025

Androidify is @riggaroo.dev's new app for Android that uses Gemini to create your own version of the Android bot. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Attached mine here, created from a recent orchestra selfie. 🎻😀 Android devs: learn more & get the code here! d.android.com/ai/samples #androiddev

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 03/09/2025

We launched the Androidify app on Google Play! Download it now, and create your very own custom Android bot ❤️ I've had loads of fun creating and testing the app - now you can too! play.google.com/store/apps/d... #Androidify

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 03/09/2025

The #AndroidShow is about to begin! Tune in to see the latest updates in the world of Android 💚 maybe you will even see someone familiar 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdpS...

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Tune in (here!) on September 3 - and click to get notified - for The Android Show!

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TJ @tunji.dev · 28/08/2025

I've been experimenting a lot with the new navigation events library and navigation 3, and wrote about 3 unique animations and transitions you can create with them: www.tunjid.com/articles/3-u...

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3 unique predictive back animations you can create with the navigation events library

Swipe to pop, drag to pop, and sticky shared elements animations

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sinasamaki @sinasamaki.com · 20/08/2025

Combining path animations and cube rotations for this magical reveal effect ✨ #JetpackCompose #shipaton #buildinpublic

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Tor Norbye @tornorbye.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Compose 1.9 is now stable! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what... On top of the many new features, there are significant performance improvements (which you can configure further, see the prefetch API for LazyList), and for debug builds, you can turn on richer stack trace information!

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What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release

The Jetpack Compose 1.9 release introduces features like advanced shadow modifiers, new visibility modifiers, and enhanced rich styling capabilities.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 14/08/2025

🚨 New video alert!! Learn all about how to combine Shared elements with Shape morphing in this #ComposeTip www.youtube.com/watch?v=0moE...

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Advanced shared elements with shape morphing | Jetpack Compose Tips

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🚀 There's a new combo of Gemini Studio features in town 🤠 With Generate from Images, Transform UI and Generate Previews, you can build a full screen (or an app 😂 ) in a ridiculously short time. ⚡ Try it and see how long it takes you - I dare you 😎 developer.android.com/studio/gemin...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 07/07/2025

Did you know... Android Studio has introduced resizable previews for Compose previews? Allowing you to test your layouts across the spectrum of device sizes easily inside Android Studio. 💻 developer.android.com/studio/previ...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 04/07/2025

This animation bugs me so much 😂 why is there a background on the X as part of it... Just remove the background and it'd be 100 times better... Someone at @itvx.com please save us.

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Code with the Italians @codewiththeitalians.it · 24/06/2025

Need design inspo or just love smooth animations? Androidify has it all—built with Jetpack Compose and a ton of creative tricks. Don’t miss our chat with Rebecca Franks and Roberto Orgiu → youtu.be/Irc6moPhows

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All about Androidify with Rebecca Frank and Roberto Orgiu!

Last stream before the summer break! Seb, Roberto and Rebecca talk about the new Androidify sample app, launched at Google I/O. Find out about some fun behin...

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · 24/06/2025

Compose 1.9 just hit beta01 & another exciting feature landing is a way to reliably determine if something is visible on screen & a way to get notified of visibility changes 📣 💅 New modifiers are entering the chat in this space: Modifier.onFirstVisible() & Modifier.onVisibilityChanged().

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Code with the Italians @codewiththeitalians.it · 18/06/2025

Androidify isn’t just back—it’s smarter, smoother, and built with the latest Android tech. Rebecca Franks and Roberto Orgiu break it all down for us live! Catch the episode → cwti.link/twitch

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