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What’s new in the Jetpack Compose April ’25 release

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/04/whats-new-in-jetpack-compose-april-25.html

Today, as part of the Compose April ‘25 Bill of Materials, we’re releasing version 1.8 of Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern, native UI toolkit, used by many developers. This release contains new features like autofill, various text improvements, visibility tracking, and new ways to animate a composable’s size and location. It also stabilizes many experimental APIs and fixes a number of bugs.

To use today’s release, upgrade your Compose BOM version to 2025.04.01 :

implementation(platform("androidx.compose:compose-bom:2025.04.01"))

Note: If you are not using the Bill of Materials, make sure to upgrade Compose Foundation and Compose UI at the same time. Otherwise, autofill will not work correctly.

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Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is Stable!

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/android-studio-ladybug-feature-drop-is-stable.html

Gemini in Android Studio

  • Code Transforms
  • Rename
  • Rethink
  • Commit Message
  • Generate Documentation

Debug

  • Animation Preview support for Wear OS Tiles
  • Wear Health Services

Optimize

  • App Links Assistant
  • Google Play SDK Insights Integration

Quality Improvements

  • 770+ bugs addressed

IntelliJ Platform Update

  • More intuitive full line code completion suggestions
  • Preview in the Search Everywhere dialog
  • Improved log management for Java and Kotlin programming languages

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Introducing klibs.io: A New Way to Discover Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries

Introducing klibs.io: A New Way to Discover Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries

Kotlin Multiplatform is growing rapidly, with its ecosystem expanding and the number of libraries increasing by 35% in 2024 alone. However, with more libraries available than ever, finding the right one for your use case and target platforms can still be a challenge. Whether you’re looking for a solution to handle permissions on iOS and Android or searching for a Compose Multiplatform calendar component that supports both mobile and web, the challenge isn’t just finding one library – it’s having all of the options clearly presented so you can compare and choose the best fit. Today, we’re excited to introduce klibs.io – our new service designed to make finding Kotlin Multiplatform libraries faster and easier.

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Kotlin 2.1.0 Released

[https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/11/kotlin-2-1-0-released/]

https://t.me/arvidroid/552

What’s new:

New language features in preview: Guard conditions in when with a subject, non-local break and continue, and multi-dollar string interpolation.

K2 compiler updates: More flexibility around compiler checks and improvements to the kapt implementation.

Kotlin Multiplatform: Stable Gradle DSL for compiler options and many other improvements.

Kotlin/Native: Improved support for iosArm64 and other updates.

Kotlin/Wasm: Multiple updates, including support for incremental compilation.

Gradle support: Improved compatibility with newer versions of Gradle and the Android Gradle plugin, along with updates to the Kotlin Gradle plugin API.