Jetpack Compose, Google’s modern toolkit for building native Android UI, offers a variety of components to streamline app development. One such component is the TopAppBar, which serves as the equivalent of the AppBarLayout or Toolbar from the earlier Android UI toolkit. The TopAppBar is often used to provide navigation controls, branding, and actions that affect…
The App Bar, a pivotal component of many Android applications, is a dedicated space at the top of the UI that provides contextual information and actions. It often contains the screen title, navigation controls, and other action items. However, to harness its full potential, we need to know how to enrich it with additional components…
In this blog post, we’re going to look at how to adjust the height of the TopAppBar in Jetpack Compose, a powerful toolkit for building UI in Android apps. We’ll also address a common issue developers face when increasing the height: the AppBar’s title and icon not being properly visible. How to Change AppBar Height…
In this blog post, we’ll dive into a particular aspect of Jetpack Compose that can be a little tricky – centering the title in a TopAppBar. While this might seem like a simple task, it can become complex, especially when you have a navigation icon and actions in your TopAppBar. To start, let’s familiarize ourselves…
Jetpack Compose is a modern UI toolkit from Google, which is entirely written in Kotlin and follows a declarative programming model. In this blog post, we will learn how to add an app bar to our Android applications using Jetpack Compose. An App Bar or a Toolbar is a fundamental component in Android applications. It…
It’s a well-known fact among developers that we tend to spend countless hours in front of our screens. This is particularly true when it comes to using IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) like Android Studio for building applications. A dark-themed interface, also known as Dark Mode, can go a long way in reducing eye strain and…
As Android developers, we require the Java Development Kit (JDK) to build our Android applications. It serves as a software environment that offers numerous tools essential for the development process. Among these tools, you’ll find the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and the Java compiler, both vital to your software projects. In this blog post, we’ll…
Jetpack Compose simplifies UI development and allows developers to create beautiful, responsive, and customizable interfaces with ease. In this tutorial, let’s learn how to add translate animation in Jetpack Compose. By the translate animation, we mean animating the position of the composable using the offset modifier. See the following code. The function starts by creating…
Adding subtle animations can make your mobile app more engaging and vibrant. In this Android tutorial, let’s learn how to add spring animation in Jetpack Compose. In order to create a spring effect in animations you have to use the spring function. It has parameters such as dampingRatio and stiffness to customize the spring effect….
Using animations instead of static UI can add life to your mobile app. In this Android tutorial, let’s learn how to create scale animation in Jetpack Compose. By scale animation, we intend to animate the size of a given composable. In this example, we use the animateDpAsState function to animate the size of a Box…
Animations can enhance the visual interest and interactivity of a mobile app. In this Android tutorial, let’s learn how to create a simple rotation animation in Jetpack Compose. In this tutorial, we are going to create a rotation animation that rotates an image infinite times. See the following code. The code defines an AnimationExample composable…
Most of the time, the animations are finite. But in some scenarios, we may want to repeat animations infinitely. In this Android tutorial, let’s learn how to create infinite animations in Jetpack Compose. We use the rememberInfiniteTransition API in this tutorial. It is a high level animation API in compose and it can be used…