Jetpack Compose

F-Droid just released its biggest app update in 10 years.

Version 2.0 completely redesigns the open source app store using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

There's a modern interface, improved search that looks through app descriptions and translations, more detailed categories, and powerful new filtering options.

But the biggest improvement might be installing apps.

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But then there's like, you know, telltale stuff like when an abstract starts up, you know, Jetpack Compose is the modern way to build, you know, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like...

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The update delivers a modern redesigned user interface, replacing the outdated layout that had remained largely unchanged for nearly a decade.

And the app's visual layout was rewritten using Jetpack Compose, which is Android's modern UI toolkit, and restructured into a streamlined three-tab layout that results in a cleaner look that aligns with classic material design principles.

The search capabilities of FDroid have been expanded and now indexes app descriptions and categories rather than just app names.

That's a really big deal.

That's what's really cool about, you know, Gemini and all the AI platforms out there.

And so when you start doing that, you, you know, maybe you're using, you know, whatever it is you're using to make the app you make the app and then if you're if you use Gemini it's going to use our most recent Jetpack Compose tools and that thing can run just as well on your laptop as it can on your phone your tablet or your foldable because we've really done a ton of work to make Android apps work better on large screens lately and it's all built into our default developer tools now which is what our AI tools use and so um you know You've got the full power of the Google Play library on these laptops.

And we have a bunch of apps that are custom designed

to work really, really well on a large screen.

And it has.

So we started work on, at that point, or just around then, how do we make this thing work with fully native UI? How do we make it drive Swift UI and Jetpack Compose and other things from PHP? And that took a lot.

But we nailed it.

The implementation that Shane came up with with Claude and that we refined together over the next few months is incredible.

is it good? Is it bad? Or how my, the whole day, 24 hours as an Android engineer looks like if something new comes into the picture.

So back when in the, when the XML and the Jetpack Compose gets released, people started feeling that, Hey, the XML days are gone.

And, Do we really need to migrate or how are we going to migrate and all those confusions and a lot of things going on, right? So that's where we started doing, hey, this is the helper things, right? So I started this Android community back in 2015 only when I was doing all these things.

I get personally attached to Android a lot.

So I started putting a lot of things out there that, hey, Android engineers, this is how the roadmap looks like.

Step number one, very, very beginning.

Step number one, this is how a Jetpack Compose roadmap looks like.

This is what a slot table looks like.