🎬 And with this, we conclude our MAD expertise collection on Compose Layouts and Modifiers! We’ve coated rather a lot in these episodes — from the very fundamentals of layouts and modifiers, easy and highly effective out-of-the-box layouts, Compose phases, to superior ideas resembling modifier chaining order and subcomposition. We additionally had a Reside Q&A the place we answered your questions on layouts and modifiers, in addition to a helpful neighborhood tip from a fellow Android developer.
In case you haven’t had an opportunity to see the collection but, right here’s a wrap-up of all of the episodes.
The primary episode covers the fundamentals of Compose layouts and modifiers: how they work collectively, what out-of-the-box APIs Compose presents, and how you can fantastically model your UI — all this whereas constructing a display screen for a mini pixelated recreation display screen known as Android Aliens! Take a look at the weblog put up or the video:
Episode 2 within the collection covers Compose phases. This helps create a psychological mannequin of how Compose really transforms information into UI. Study extra from the video or from the weblog put up.
Episode 3 covers the constraints and modifier order. Constructing on prime of the earlier episode, we use that psychological mannequin to be taught to purpose about modifier chaining and the way it influences the sizes of our composables. Take a look at the video or the weblog put up:
Episode 4 covers Superior Format ideas: how you can construct customized layouts in Compose, what the Format section is able to, how you can enter it and how you can use its sub-phases — measurement and placement. We additionally cowl two essential, rule-defying Compose APIs: SubcomposeLayout, and Intrinsic measurements. Discover out extra within the video or weblog put up:
Episode 5 is a tip from a member of the Android neighborhood. Manuel Perera, lead Android Developer at Bumble, exhibits us how simple it’s to tweak an out-of-the-box Compose structure, to implement a enjoyable and complicated wanting real-life instance. Test it out:
We love getting questions from you! Chris Arriola, Jolanda Verhoef, Andrei Shikov and myself tried to reply as many questions as doable, that got here up from the neighborhood all through the MAD Expertise collection. Right here’s the video in case you missed it:
We hope you’ve realized new issues about Compose, renewed previous information and most significantly — that you simply really feel rather more ready and assured emigrate E V E R Y T H I N G to Compose 😀.
