The TopAppBar is a composable that provides a container for toolbar content at the top of the screen. While setting a solid color or a gradient as the background of TopAppBar is common, you might find yourself needing to set an image as the background. This can help create a more engaging and visually appealing…
Android’s Jetpack Compose is transforming the landscape of UI development with its declarative approach. Among its composables, the TopAppBar stands as an essential tool for creating action bars or app bars. Although changing the background color of the TopAppBar to a solid color is quite simple, making it a gradient color adds a certain visual…
When crafting user interfaces with Android’s Jetpack Compose, flexibility and customization are key. One of the common requirements that developers might encounter is making the TopAppBar component transparent. This blog post will guide you through the process of creating a transparent TopAppBar in Jetpack Compose. What is TopAppBar? In Jetpack Compose, the TopAppBar is a…
Jetpack Compose, a toolkit for building user interfaces in Android, is transforming the way developers approach app design. In this tutorial, we will focus on a common UI element: the TopAppBar, and specifically, how to change its background color. Introduction to TopAppBar TopAppBar, a key component of the Material Design guidelines, is often used for…
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’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…