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Setting up Compose Multiplatform previews

zsmb.co29 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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58%plop score

How I Finally Memorized Modifier Ordering in Compose

zsmb.co4 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...

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54%plop score

The conflation problem of testing StateFlows

zsmb.co15 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.

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52%plop score

Celebrating 5 years of Kotlin on Android

zsmb.co17 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...

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Wrap-up 2021

zsmb.co31 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.

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62%plop score

All About Opt-In Annotations

zsmb.co28 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.

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58%plop score

A Bit of Gradle Housekeeping

zsmb.co1 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.

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58%plop score

Announcing requireKTX

zsmb.co17 Jun 2021

Announcing requireKTX 2021-06-17 • Márton Braun So, I got tired of writing code like this. requireArguments().getString("user_id")!!

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53%plop score

Pi Practice App in Compose

zsmb.co18 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!

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49%plop score

Prime Table Generator in Jetpack Compose

zsmb.co25 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.

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57%plop score

Android Chat SDK - Compose Messaging SDK

zsmb.co5 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.

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Compose O'Clock

zsmb.co2 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...

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53%plop score

Sealed goodies coming in Kotlin 1.5

zsmb.co19 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.

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58%plop score

Wrap-up 2020

zsmb.co30 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.

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59%plop score

Mastering API Visibility in Kotlin

zsmb.co4 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.

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57%plop score

Introducing 🌈RainbowCake

zsmb.co29 Jun 2020

Introducing 🌈RainbowCake 2020-06-29 • Márton Braun This is a project over two years in the making, and I’m happy to finally announce it to a broader audience. It’s been quite the journey.

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58%plop score

Fragment Lifecycles in the Age of Jetpack

zsmb.co18 Jun 2020

Fragment Lifecycles in the Age of Jetpack 2020-06-18 • Márton Braun Fragments have… Complicated lifecycles, to say the least.

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55%plop score

The Single-cable Dream

zsmb.co10 May 2020

The Single-cable Dream 2020-05-10 • Márton Braun As much of the world, I also started working from home recently, and I expect to be doing so for a while.

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58%plop score