Jetpack Compose

This tutorial will show how to create a new Jetpack compose project in Android Studio. Here Android Studio Dolphin | 2021.3.1 is being used for this tutorial. Please follow below mentioned steps to start with the first Jetpack Compose project. Open Android Studio. Click on File -> New -> New Project, But if you are opening Android Studio for the first time the Welcome to Android Studio screen will appear, There you can click on the New Project option. After clicking on New Project the following popup will appear. Click on the Empty Compose Activity option. A new popup will appear where you have to add the Name of the Project, the Package Name and location where you want to save the project, and the minimum android version. After this click on the finish button, This was the last step, let android studio do its Job and load all the required libraries and tools. When Android studio finishes loading, you can click the Run button to start the app in an emulator or on an actual device.  Parvesh SandilaParvesh Sandila is a passionate web and Mobile app developer from Jalandhar, Punjab, who has over six years of experience. Holding a Master’s degree in Computer Applications (2017), he has also mentored over 100 students in coding. In 2019, Parvesh founded Owlbuddy.com, a platform that provides free, high-quality programming tutorials in languages like Java, Python, Kotlin, PHP, and Android. His mission is to make tech education accessible to all aspiring developers.​ new.owlbuddy.com

These days a new technology called Jetpack Compose is becoming popular among Android developers. Every Android developer talking about this and some of you might have already heard somewhere about Jetpack Compose. Now the question arises, what is this and how can it be helpful to us as Android developers? Jetpack Compose is a native UI toolkit launched by Google. The main motive to launch this is to provide a productive and simple approach to creating UI in Android. As you know, the best way to write UI in Android is by using XML. But how would you react if I mention that soon you are going to miss this old-school way of writing UI? Believe me, this is going to amaze you Jetpack Compose allows us to create UI by just using Kotlin, and this is going to be a game changer for us android developers In coming years there is a high chance that this new way of creating UI will replace traditional technologies. Because of this reason, it becomes very important to keep yourself up to date with industry standards. For your help, we are going to create a detailed series about Jetpack Compose. Which will help you to understand every single topic about Compose. After finishing this series, you will be able to start a Jetpack Compose project from scratch and finish it like a pro. What is the agenda of the series: – The main agenda of this series is to provide knowledge to its readers about the following Pre-define composable (Buttons, Text, Radio, Checkbox, etc) Use of state  How to create custom composable  Animate composable  Creating custom UI using Canvas (Pie chart, Gauge, etc) Prerequisites to start this series: – This series is all about Jetpack Compose. So we will not cover any basic Android app development topic. So please make sure before starting that you have done with the following Prerequisite.  Knowledge of Android app development. Knowledge of Kotlin syntax and features (lambda, annotations, list functions, etc). Knowledge about reactive programming (LiveData, Flow, etc). Knowledge of some design patterns such as MVC, MVP, and MVVM. Parvesh SandilaParvesh Sandila is a passionate web and Mobile app developer from Jalandhar, Punjab, who has over six years of experience. Holding a Master’s degree in Computer Applications (2017), he has also mentored over 100 students in coding. In 2019, Parvesh founded Owlbuddy.com, a platform that provides free, high-quality programming tutorials in languages like Java, Python, Kotlin, PHP, and Android. His mission is to make tech education accessible to all aspiring developers.​ new.owlbuddy.com