Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern UI toolkit, offers a flexible approach to building interactive UI elements. An interesting aspect of this is the ability to make a canvas – typically used for custom drawings – responsive to user interactions, such as clicks. This blog post will guide you through making a canvas clickable in Jetpack Compose,…
Jetpack Compose, Android’s contemporary toolkit for UI development, offers a flexible approach to creating custom shapes, including triangles. Drawing a triangle can be particularly useful for various UI elements like icons, buttons, or decorative graphics. This blog post will guide you through the process of drawing a triangle shape in Jetpack Compose, using a practical…
Jetpack Compose, Google’s modern toolkit for UI development in Android, offers developers a canvas for creative and custom drawings. Among its features is the ability to draw points, a fundamental aspect of graphics programming. This blog post will look into how to draw points in Jetpack Compose Canvas. Canvas in Jetpack Compose provides a lower-level…
In the versatile world of Android app development, Jetpack Compose has redefined how developers approach UI creation. A significant aspect of this toolkit is the Canvas composable, a powerful tool for custom drawings and graphics. Understanding the size of the canvas is critical for creating responsive and dynamic designs. This blog post will focus on…
In Android app development, visual elements like images play a pivotal role in enhancing user interfaces. Jetpack Compose, with its versatile UI toolkit, allows for an array of creative possibilities, including drawing images on a canvas. This capability is particularly useful for custom UIs that require more than just standard image views. In this blog…
Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern UI toolkit, offers extensive capabilities for custom UI design, including drawing text on a canvas. This feature is important for developers looking to create custom text layouts or integrate text within graphical elements. This blog post provides an in-depth look at how to draw text on a canvas in Jetpack Compose,…
In the world of Android development, Jetpack Compose has revolutionized the way developers create and manage UIs. One of its strengths lies in the ability to apply multiple transformations to shapes, allowing for more dynamic and visually appealing designs. This blog post will delve into how to add multiple transformations to shapes in Jetpack Compose,…
Creating dynamic and interactive user interfaces in Android applications involves not just drawing shapes but also manipulating their positions. Jetpack Compose, with its modern UI toolkit, provides a flexible canvas for such custom drawings. In this context, translating the position of shapes is a fundamental aspect. This blog post will discuss how to translate or…
Jetpack Compose provides various tools to easily scale and transform composable UI elements. In this blog post, we’ll look at how to scale shapes drawn on a Canvas using Compose’s scale modifier. Basic Scaling Here is a composable that draws a rectangle on a Canvas and scales it non-uniformly using scale: Breaking this down: This…
Creating dynamic and interactive UIs in Android applications often requires manipulating shapes. In this context, Jetpack Compose, the modern toolkit for building native UIs on Android, provides straightforward ways to rotate shapes. This blog post will look into the steps and techniques for rotating a shape in Jetpack Compose. Rotation in Jetpack Compose is performed…
Jetpack Compose provides a powerful and flexible API for drawing custom vector graphics and shapes. Using the Canvas composable and path drawing functions like drawPath(), you can create anything from simple lines and rectangles to complex polygons and curved shapes. The Basics of Draw Path To draw a path in Compose, you need to use…
Material Design has been a cornerstone in Android app development, offering a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. Google’s introduction of Material3 brought in more flexibility, customization options, and new components. Updating or changing the Material3 version in your Android project can bring new features and improvements to your…