Episode 131: Jetpack Compose and Declarative UIs

Adam, Romain, Tor, and Chet, on location
in the fancy and totally upscale ADB recording studio

In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Adam Powell from the UI Toolkit team about Jetpack Compose. The conversation meandered into declarative programming, reacting to state changes, data flowing through an application, and Kotlin domain-specific languages.

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Links:

• Jetpack Compose overview
• Jetpack Compose tutorial

Adam: @adampwp
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 130: First Law of Motion...Layout

Tor, Nicolas, John, Romain and Chet in the Android Studio

In this episode, Tor, Romain and Chet chit chat with Nicolas Roard and John Hoford from the Android Studio team about Motion Layout -- and ConstraintLayout and visual editing in the IDE.

In the recording session they also promised to release ConstraintLayout 2.0 beta 4 before the podcast was released. And they achieved that: https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2019/12/constraintlayout-200-beta-4.html.

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Links:

• Constraintlayout codelab: https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout
• MotionLayout codelab: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/motion-layout
• MotionLayout workshop with John and Nicolas from DroidconSF: https://camaelon.github.io/
• ConstraintLayout reference page: https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/widget/ConstraintLayout
• MotionLayout reference page: https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/motion/widget/MotionLayout
• MotionLayout page: https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout/motionlayout
• MotionLayout examples: https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout/motionlayout/examples
• ConstraintLayout and MotionLayout github samples: https://github.com/android/views-widgets-samples/tree/master/ConstraintLayoutExamples
• Medium article on MotionLayout: https://medium.com/google-developers/introduction-to-motionlayout-part-i-29208674b10d

Nicolas: @camaelon
John: @johnhoford
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.