Setting up Compose Multiplatform previews
zsmb.coby Márton Braun29 Jul 2025
Setting up Compose Multiplatform previews 2025-07-29 • Márton Braun Last updated on 2026-01-16, to add the reference to the new official documentation.
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top 33%How I Finally Memorized Modifier Ordering in Compose
zsmb.coby Márton Braun4 Jun 2024
How I Finally Memorized Modifier Ordering in Compose 2024-06-04 • Márton Braun For the longest time, I was a proud member of the “no idea how Modifier ordering works, just try it one way and flip...
The conflation problem of testing StateFlows
zsmb.coby Márton Braun15 Aug 2023
The conflation problem of testing StateFlows 2023-08-15 • Márton Braun StateFlow has a bit of a wave–particle duality. On one hand, it’s a data holder which holds a current value.
Celebrating 5 years of Kotlin on Android
zsmb.coby Márton Braun17 Aug 2022
17 August 2022 Posted by Márton Braun, Developer Relations Engineer Five years ago, at the 2017 Google I/O Keynote, we did something we had never done before: we announced official support for a...
Wrap-up 2021
zsmb.coby Márton Braun31 Dec 2021
Wrap-up 2021 2021-12-31 • Márton Braun Another year over, a new one’s almost begun. Here’s a brief summary of what I’ve done in this one.
All About Opt-In Annotations
zsmb.coby Márton Braun28 Sept 2021
All About Opt-In Annotations 2021-09-28 • Márton Braun The opt-in mechanism in Kotlin allows you to mark APIs that should be used carefully – or perhaps not at all.
A Bit of Gradle Housekeeping
zsmb.coby Márton Braun1 Sept 2021
A Bit of Gradle Housekeeping 2021-09-01 • Márton Braun While cleaning is traditionally a spring activity, let me invite you to do it at the end of summer this time around.
Keeping public API in check with the Kotlin binary validator plugin
zsmb.coby Márton Braun14 Jul 2021
Within the Stream Chat Android SDK project, we use the Kotlin binary compatibility validator plugin to keep track of all the changes we make to our public API.
Announcing requireKTX
zsmb.coby Márton Braun17 Jun 2021
Announcing requireKTX 2021-06-17 • Márton Braun So, I got tired of writing code like this. requireArguments().getString("user_id")!!
Clean Chat Example App with Jetpack Compose
zsmb.coby Márton Braun8 Jun 2021
Stream now provides a Jetpack Compose Chat SDK. Check out the Compose Chat Messaging Tutorial and give it a try today!
Pi Practice App in Compose
zsmb.coby Márton Braun18 Apr 2021
Pi Practice App in Compose 2021-04-18 • Márton Braun This article was originally planned for 🥧 Pi Day, and it clearly ran more than a month late. However, it’s finally complete!
Prime Table Generator in Jetpack Compose
zsmb.coby Márton Braun25 Mar 2021
Prime Table Generator in Jetpack Compose 2021-03-25 • Márton Braun It’s been more than 6 years since I wrote an original version of this prime table generator.
Android Chat SDK - Compose Messaging SDK
zsmb.coby Márton Braun5 Mar 2021
The Jetpack Compose SDK is built on a low-level chat client and provides modular, customizable Compose UI components that you can easily drop into your Android app.
Compose O'Clock
zsmb.coby Márton Braun2 Mar 2021
Compose O'Clock 2021-03-02 • Márton Braun I’ve seen this fancy clock on Reddit a few days ago. Seeing how I took this week to get started with Jetpack Compose, I figured it would be fun to attempt...
Publishing Android libraries to MavenCentral in 2021
zsmb.coby Márton Braun4 Feb 2021
Introduction This is an updated version of an article published two years ago on blog.autsoft.hu.
Sealed goodies coming in Kotlin 1.5
zsmb.coby Márton Braun19 Jan 2021
Sealed goodies coming in Kotlin 1.5 2021-01-19 • Márton Braun Preview! Heads up: most things covered in this post are in a preview state of some sort.
Wrap-up 2020
zsmb.coby Márton Braun30 Dec 2020
Wrap-up 2020 2020-12-30 • Márton Braun Like before, this will be a mostly personal ramble about things that happened during the year. You’ve been warned.
Mastering API Visibility in Kotlin
zsmb.coby Márton Braun4 Nov 2020
Mastering API Visibility in Kotlin 2020-11-04 • Márton Braun This article is also available as a talk, check out the slides and recordings here.
Effective Class Delegation
zsmb.coby Márton Braun29 Sept 2020
Effective Class Delegation 2020-09-29 • Márton Braun One of the most significant items of the Effective Java book is Item 18: Favor composition over inheritance.
Krate, a better SharedPreferences experience
zsmb.coby Márton Braun9 Sept 2020
Krate, a better SharedPreferences experience 2020-09-09 • Márton Braun SharedPreferences is a handy tool for saving small amounts of data in key-value pairs.