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KaMPKit
KaMP Kit by Touchlab. A collection of code & tools designed to get your mobile team started quickly w/Kotlin Multiplatform
Hey folks, Brady from Touchlab here. I've only been at Touchlab since the beginning of the year, but KaMP Kit, our simple-but-not-too-simple sample project to help those considering Kotlin Multiplatform, started way back at the end of 2019. Back then, Jetpack Compose had just been announced in May. It was a time full of optimism about the modern mobile UI development experience, but also of wild instability. The first method of getting Jetpack Compose to work on your machine involved pulling down the AndroidX development toolchain, and running a special version of Android Studio via terminal commands. Eventually, preview, alpha, and beta version of Compose could be used in the canary version of Android Studio (more history). Starting July 28, 2021, Compose went stable, and a version of Android Studio Arctic Fox, which supports Compose, was released in the stable channel shortly thereafter. Now we can use a stable version of Compose with a stable version of Android Studio. We at Touchlab have been excited about Compose for a long time; you can watch us geek out about it here. And though the community has been interested in Compose for KaMP Kit since at least May 2020, we didn't want folks who are trying out Kotlin Multiplatform with KaMP Kit to also have to learn a changing Jetpack Compose API, and require them to use a special version of Android Studio. Now that these obstacles have been removed, we feel comfortable fully endorsing Jetpack Compose in KMM.
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This covers the only Loading, only Success, only Error, Loading and Success, and Loading and Error possibilities. It harkens back to the old Android architecture components samples' Resource class.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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To get this same functionality in Compose without implementing swipe-to-refresh yourself, you'll want to use Accompanist-SwipeRefresh, which is a Google library, but isn't officially part of Jetpack. You'll also need to make sure that any content inside the SwipeRefresh Composable is scrollable. You may have to wrap some content in a Column with a verticalScroll modifier per the documentation. If you miss this step, you could emit a non-scrollable Error state, and be unable to swipe to refresh again.
