Category: Android
Gradle Cheat Sheet for Android and KMP Projects – Plugins
Gradle can be confusing and difficult to follow. When you create a new Android project they...
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Open Source Updates
We’ve been heads down for the last few months working on our new professional offerings: SKIE and Touchlab Pro. We’ll be posting about them soon. While that work has been the major focus, our open source projects have been mostly getting critical updates. As our new projects have been nearing release, we’ve finished a bunch of updates to our open source libraries.
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Using Compose Across Platforms
Let’s look at the differences you’ll encounter when using Compose for different...
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KMM Beta: Making It Even Better
Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile entered Beta in October 2022. We’re chronicling its growth and highlighting how Touchlab has helped make the developer experience better
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Under the hood of Relay, Android Studio plugin for exporting Figma components to compose
What’s going on under the hood with Relay? Let’s go over the process in detail, from Figma to Compose code.
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Jetpack Compose Animations Beyond the State Change
Jetpack Compose hit 1.0 a few weeks ago, and it came with a wonderful and robust animations API....
Read MoreGoogle and Facebook Login on Android with Coroutines
Intro I recently started using Google One Tap and Facebook login for some auth work for one of our...
Read MoreFun with Compose: Bad UI in a Great Framework
Intro To celebrate Jetpack Compose finally hitting 1.0, I wanted to take a bit of a deep dive to...
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Multiplatform Encryption with SQLDelight and SQLCipher
Last year we received a PR to SQLiter (The Kotlin/Native driver that Touchlab maintains for...
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Offline functionality is a no brainer (and how Twitter dropped the ball)
This is Part 2 of 3 in a series on Offline Connectivity. Read Part 1: No Connection? Big Problem...
Read MoreStatic Application Reference
I’m a bit of a stickler for passing Context around methods rather than keeping a handle on the context in object fields and whatnot. There are some obvious reasons, like being careful about memory leaks and whatnot. I feel...
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