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Anko
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Dear developers, would continue learning XML or start learning Jetpack Compose be more convenient?
Yes you can. Sadly I can't share any code on how to, but you can checkout Anko Layouts (although deprecated now and I never used it). I edited my post also, to show you how it looks like.
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Pi Practice App in Compose
If you take a look at the repository, you'll find something rather interesting in its dependencies. It uses Anko Layouts to render some parts of its UI! This was an early, now deprecated and abandoned attempt by JetBrains to create declarative Android UI with Kotlin DSLs.
PiCompose
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Pi Practice App in Compose
The completed app's source code is available on GitHub, so you can browse it freely while reading the article.
What are some alternatives?
Awesome Jetpack compose - A collaborative list of awesome jetpack compose resources.
androidx - Development environment for Android Jetpack extension libraries under the androidx namespace. Synchronized with Android Jetpack's primary development branch on AOSP.
Kotterknife
CalendarView - A highly customizable calendar view and compose library for Android.
Pdf Viewer For Android - A Lightweight PDF Viewer Android library which only occupies around 80kb while most of the Pdf viewer occupies up to 16MB space.
RxKotlin/Pocket - This is a first kotlin project
CodeView - Display code with syntax highlighting :sparkles: in native way.
Kotlin-AgendaCalendarView - Android calendar library provides easy to use widget with events
ObservableFlow - Functional Constructs for Databinding + Kotlin + RxJava
Google Places AutoComplete EditText - A simple library that can connect your autocomplete edittext to Google places api
Maildroid - Maildroid is a small robust android library for sending emails using SMTP server
Aimybox voice assistant - Embeddable custom voice assistant for Android applications