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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition
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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition

by Bryan Sills, Brian Gardner, Kristin Marsicano, Chris Stewart
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
20h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition

For the More Curious: Accompanist

Jetpack Compose is stable, but still in its early days. For many apps, the Compose dependencies you used with Coda Pizza offer every component and API you need to build the UI of your dreams. For other apps, though, you might find that the Compose libraries do not quite have all the features you need.

Jetpack Compose version 1.1, for example, does not offer a built-in way to change the status bar or navigation bar colors, request permissions from a composable, or make your UI respond to display cutouts and notches, to name a few examples. But fear not: In addition to the mainstream Compose APIs, Google also offers a set of libraries to provide this functionality and more.

Accompanist is a constantly ...

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ISBN: 9780137645794