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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 8d

✨ New and improved Agent features for Compose now in Canary! 🦦

Generate & transform composables with imgs and text, generate Previews, improve code quality... I can't fit it all🙃

Get the latest Canary & the release notes, submit issues, have fun! 😊

developer.android.com/studio/previ...

Release notes for Android Studio preview | Android Developers

Discover new features and changes in Android Studio preview.

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · 10d

One month to go until #dcldn25 ! 🥳 🎃

Join us in "What's new in Android Studio's AI Agent", where we'll demonstrate truly helpful ways of using these new Studio tools in your daily workflow, and share some handy behind-the-scene info & tips ✨👇:

london.droidcon.com/agenda

Agenda | droidcon London

droidcon London 2025, the premier android developer event. Become a better developer, learn from the community, expand your network.

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · Sep 3

We launched the Androidify app on Google Play!

Download it now, and create your very own custom Android bot ❤️

I've had loads of fun creating and testing the app - now you can too!

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

#Androidify

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · Aug 14

🚨 New video alert!! Learn all about how to combine Shared elements with Shape morphing in this #ComposeTip

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0moE...

Advanced shared elements with shape morphing | Jetpack Compose Tips

YouTube video by Android Developers

www.youtube.com

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚀 There's a new combo of Gemini Studio features in town 🤠

With Generate from Images, Transform UI and Generate Previews, you can build a full screen (or an app 😂 ) in a ridiculously short time. ⚡

Try it and see how long it takes you - I dare you 😎

developer.android.com/studio/gemin...

Android Developers @androiddevs.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎨→💻 From a sketch to Compose code. The latest experimental Gemini features in Android Studio can now translate images into UI.

See how this and other AI-powered tools can accelerate your workflow → https://goo.gle/3Jn8ujX

A vibrant promotional image features "Multimodal Gemini in Android Studio" in large white text on a dark grey background to the left. Below the text, the colorful, tie-dye head of the Android mascot peeks from the bottom left. On the right, against a white background, two smiling individuals are shown: an individual with long dark hair, wearing a striped shirt and a t-shirt with a compass graphic, holds up peace signs in the top right, while below, a bearded individual in a blue t-shirt smiles subtly.

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Aug 6

Another ✨ Delightful Compose Tip ✨ is out, to show you some fun shape shifting and morphing for WearOS ⌚ it's even simpler now than you might expect 😎

Got any other ideas or wishes on tips you'd like to see? Let us know 😊

Android Developers @androiddevs.bsky.social · Jul 31

Are you looking to add a little shape morphing delight to your Wear OS apps? If so, you’re in the right place.

Learn how to implement these cool new effects with Compose Material 3 → https://goo.gle/4lYaDRR

Learn how to implement these cool new effects with Compose Material 3 in your Wear OS apps.

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seb @sebastiano.dev · Jul 16

If you do, I would recommend using your own Gemini key to get a larger context (1m tokens) developer.android.com/studio/previ...

And yes, there is a rather generous free tier for the Gemini APIs, too ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

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Android Developers @androiddevs.bsky.social · Jul 15

We've expanded our Jetpack Compose accessibility guidance! 📄💚

Dive deep into semantics, traversal, and testing to build more inclusive experiences. Learn more on making your Compose UIs accessible for everyone → https://goo.gle/compose-accessibility

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Jun 13

New Delightful episode is out! 😍 Special Android Studio edition 💻 with tons of insightful tips on how to boost your Compose productivity using Interactive and UI Check Modes, Animation and Run Preview, and grouping, zooming and analysing Previews 🚀

Check it out: 🥳
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnHT...

Compose Preview | Jetpack Compose Tips

YouTube video by Android Developers

www.youtube.com

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · May 23

We also published new and expanded guidance on Compose accessibility that tackles all of these topics in more detail:

goo.gle/compose-acce...

Accessibility in Jetpack Compose | Android Developers

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · May 23

Our #IO25 talk on how to build more accessible apps with Compose is out! 🥳 Lots of tips on choosing appropriate semantics, merging, clearing & hiding, inspection & debug, accessibility checks in tests 🫶

Check it out ☺️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80qk...

Build more accessible UIs with Jetpack Compose

YouTube video by Android Developers

www.youtube.com

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · May 22

🥳 Excited to share our latest blog post on Material 3 Expressive Motion Theming!

🤿 Dive into how the new physics-based system brings interactions and transitions to life.

Read it here: m3.material.io/blog/m3-expr...

#AndroidDev

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Rebecca Franks @riggaroo.dev · May 21

We launched the #Androidify sample app on GitHub yesterday too to learn more about how it works behind the scenes. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/andr...

Androidify: Building powerful AI-driven experiences with Jetpack Compose, Gemini and CameraX

The Androidify app is an open-source project, utilizing Jetpack Compose, Gemini, CameraX, and Navigation 3 to build AI-driven Android experiences.

android-developers.googleblog.com

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Halil Ozercan @halilibo.com · May 4

For the first time I'm officially a part of Google IO. Listen to us talk about text input in Compose and how it's changing. I promise you will learn something new :)

io.google/2025/explore...

Google I/O 2025: Mastering text input in Compose

Don’t miss Google I/O, featuring product launches, innovations, and insights. Tune in for the live keynotes and sessions.

io.google

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · May 4

Hyped to be speaking at #IO25 on how to build more accessible apps with #JetpackCompose 🎉 : classifying components, choosing appropriate semantics, merging and clearing wisely, traversal, inspection & debug tips, accessibility checks in tests & more! 🚀

See ya in May: io.google/2025/explore... 🤩

Google I/O 2025: Build more accessible UIs with Jetpack Compose

Don’t miss Google I/O, featuring product launches, innovations, and insights. Tune in for the live keynotes and sessions.

io.google

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Jolanda Verhoef @lojanda.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚀 Big news for Android devs using Jetpack Compose! Media3 just dropped version 1.6.0, and it includes a brand new artifact: media3-ui-compose! Finally, seamless and customizable video playback directly in your Compose apps. 🎬 #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #Media3

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Mar 19

a more practical, smaller proposal is: have you tried setting the testTag first, and then clearing? This should keep the test tag and clear the rest of the semantics

modifier = Modifier
.testTag("testtag")
.clearAndSetSemantics { }

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Mar 19

I see! a bigger question: what is your backend testing setup like, for this and everything else? if you have dynamic a11y labels in diff locales, I'd then expect you'd want to test these individually? :) meaning you'd have a way of providing test data, like a11y labels, that you can access in tests

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Mar 19

If you already have semantic info in a composable, you can most likely just use that for assertion in a test as well. Test tags are often used unnecessarily just cause it's convenient :), chances are you can avoid it for a lot of cases

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Mar 19

Test tags are meant to be used for testing only, whereas semantics can be used for both accessibility AND testing, whenever possible. Can you explain why and how you'd ever use a test tag for accessibility purposes?

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Mar 13

We had so much fun filming #TheAndroidShow in Barcelona, at #MobileWorldCongress last week, we can't wait to share it with you! 🥳 Tune in TODAY 🚀 to watch the livestream:
goo.gle/tas-mar25

Set your reminder: #TheAndroidShow is live *here* on March 13!

YouTube video by Android Developers

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Chuck Jazdzewski @chuckjaz.bsky.social · Mar 7

@intelligibabble.bsky.social and I discuss Compose performance on the Android Developers Backstage podcast with @tornorbye.bsky.social and @romainguy.dev

Check it out.

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 213: Compose runtime and performance

In this episode, Tor and Romain chat with Leland and Chuck from the Compose team about performance -- recent optimizations, upcoming optimizations, and challenges. Leland: Chuck: Tor: Romain: ,&nb...

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Feb 25

Check out the new ✨ Delightful Compose for 📺 tip ✨

In this video, Paul shows how you can leverage Compose's declarative UI and adaptive APIs to build some pretty cool stuff for TV 😎

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruJj...

Compose for TV | Jetpack Compose Tips

YouTube video by Android Developers

www.youtube.com

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Simona Milanovic @anomiss.bsky.social · Jan 31

✨ New Delightful Compose video is out! ✨ @vanyo.dev has some great tips on how to keep your UI delightful long term by testing it! Previews, screenshot testing, DeviceConfigurationOverride and other helpful tools are covered here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9GW...

Testing | Jetpack Compose Tips

YouTube video by Android Developers

www.youtube.com

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Clara Bayarri @clarabayarri.bsky.social · Jan 30

The Android UI & Jetpack Compose team is building a new team in Bengaluru!
Join us in building exciting new APIs for Jetpack Compose as well as the other UI libraries and help us expand to Bengaluru.

EM: goo.gle/4gt9dMl
SWE: goo.gle/4dQb9w7
PM: goo.gle/compose-pm-in
DevRel: goo.gle/3DE8B7T

Engineering Manager, Android Toolkit — Google Careers

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