You've asked for this... and now Compose 1.9 alpha introduces two new modifiers 👀 Modifier.innerShadow() and Modifier.dropShadow()

Allowing you to more closely align your designs to your Figma specs, unlocking fun effects like Neumorphic type UIs 😍

github.com/riggaroo/com...

Did you know there's a page showing all the Compose easing options visually, with not just the graphs but also practical examples of offsets, scale, and more?

A true hidden gem in my opinion - it's super hard to search for, but well-worth bookmarking!

developer.android.co...

🚀 Kotlin 2.1.20 is here! 🚀
This release brings powerful new features and improvements:
✨ K2 support for kapt and Lombok plugins
🔗 Common atomic types and improved UUIDs in stdlib
⏱️ Native time-tracking API
⚡ New inlining optimizations in Kotlin/Native

Learn more: kotl.in/f959fd

💥 I did an explainer about how Android rendering works!

This is part of a series on rendering, I’ll be showing how each platform renders so that people can learn and compare/contrast

More good news from Google: Kotlin 2.0 is now the default version in the Android project (AOSP)!

As an example of the improvements, the System UI module now takes 33% less time to build. ⚡️

Impl details: measureTime {} & measureTimedValue {} delegate to TimeSource.Monotonic which delegate to MonotonicTimeSource which delegates to System.nanoTime() which became @CriticalNative in Android 11. Before that SystemClock.uptimeMillis() was faster.

More: dev.to/pyricau/andr...

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Today marks the ten year anniversary for Android Studio! 🎉

We released version 1.0 on the morning of December 8th 2014:
android-developers.googleblog.com/2014/12/andr...