accompanist VS timber

The truly disheartening part is that whenever you choose something that works, for example ViewPager1, you need to defend that yes, this thing actually works as intended, yes, there's nothing in it that would "break over time" just because Googlers added the @Deprecated on it, and yes, you still don't want to use Compost for this because you still cannot scroll vertically in a horizontal Pager if your view is a WebView.

Compose on the other hand came out half-baked, significant performance issues, missing features, bugs and bugs and bugs and bugs and bugs and bugs and bugs and bugs and bugs.

Just to add to the list, Accompanist is a collection of compose libraries that helps a lot with some features. I can recommend Navigation-Animationand Permissions. https://github.com/google/accompanist

To give a bit of context, libraries not released as Jetpack libraries as experiment projects. Once they're released as Jetpack libraries, we have stricter release schedule in place and more resources to provide better stability for developers. That's why some Accompanist libraries end up as part of Compose foundation set, while others are still being shipped as part of the Accompanist project.

So you're going to get support for Parcelables in argument passing, animation support without having to fear crashes, and if you drink the ScopedServices koolaid you even get to get DI with lifecycle management and scope inheritance.

Here's a fun bug though https://github.com/google/accompanist/issues/1233

There is a bug the preview is not working when System UI controller is used. See issue tracker here.

👋 I have been using Mobius personally and for work for over two years now. It's a lot of fun to use and I would definitely recommend the community to consider using it. I frequently visit their GitHub repo because they still have their documentation in the GitHub wiki, unlike new repos such as Accompanist. So, I thought what better way to give back than do the grunt work of porting their wiki to GitHub Pages + MkDocs ❤️🔥

Accompanist for unofficial stuff that's still useful

To try and fix this problem fast I knew I needed some sort of logging and that is when I discovered Timber and Firebase Crashlynics. I then used THIS video to set both of them up and to create a decent crash reporting system.

Timber

Do you still use the Android Timber lib? The only real pro I see is that you don't need to declare the Tag, other than that that "pro" where each call checks if debug or not I wonder why you would like to have that, I mean what I want is all debug-only logs to get stripped out from the code, and instead of calling if(BuildConfig.Debug) on each Timer.xy() call why not create an extra Application class under the debug folder where logs are activated? Just trying to figure out of this lib that actually started like 9 years ago is still needed or not really anymore. https://github.com/JakeWharton/timber

One of the options could be to setup logging to the file within the app and sync it with backend once necessary or required. This could be achieved by using library, such as Timber and setting up local file. Depending on your constraints, such as file size, you might want to include a file rotation strategy, e.g. start a new file and remove the old one.

Timber for logging

Same as in Timber