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3 new Android developers in 2022
In 2021, several events occurred in the field of Android development that will have an influence on the development of the sphere in the coming years. Let us dwell on the main ones.
Jetpack Compose
The announced framework Jetpack Compose is a new, modern set of tools for creating a user interface. In this component, Android clearly lagged behind competitors. Now developers can forget about XML and apply a declarative approach to programming instead of imperative.
Jetpack Compose is a Google framework written in Kotlin. So far, applications on its basis have not been fully advanced regarding the interface, but they already support many interesting visual functions: new navigation, themes, and so on.
Hilt
Hilt is a tool for introducing dependencies in Android, developed on the basis of the popular Dagger library. It has a simpler configuration compared to the latter. Errors in Hilt are more understandable, which allows you to work with it even programmers with little DI experience.
The framework is integrated with Jetpack Compose, View Models, View Models and other convenient Android development tools.
Kotlin Flow
In 2019, Kotlin officially became a priority programming language for Android developers. Now the Kotlin Coroutines have been replaced by Kotlin Flow from Jetbrains.
Flow is a new Corutin class that should make them a more reactive framework. Its advantage is the possibility of returning several objects at once or in turn, to process the data stream asynchronously, without blocking the main stream of data of the application.
Kotlin Flow is considered a lightweight alternative to RXJava and is designed to replace it in the near future. The same fate is waiting for LiveData - Android is moving towards a gradual abandonment of this data storage, although at the moment the Flow supports it.
The presented technologies, affecting all layers of the code base, are able to completely change the process of developing Android applications. It is worth spending time studying all three tools to use them together to create a more reliable and convenient code base.
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