Roundtable Discussion: Ask Googlers About Android Jetpack
summary
Panel answers name concrete timelines and tradeoffs: Compose is heading to 1.0 with tooling and preview work prioritized and Compose 1.0 focus; a Jetpack BOM is only under investigation; remote‑views/widgets are possible (hackathon proof) but not a current priority; integrations exist for RxJava and coroutines; LiveData remains supported (LiveData not deprecated); Hilt targets stability in 2021 (Hilt stable 2021); activity‑results and permission helpers and Material Compose theme adapter are available; tooling pursues faster edit‑deploy and Preview and hot‑reload work in progress.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:21When Will Jetpack Compose Provide a Bill of Material for Dependencies or any Jetpack Library
- 2:53Is There any Plan To Integrate Compose Views with Remote View Api
- 5:56Themes
- 6:58Will Jetpack Compose Soon Replace the Code Labs Presented in the Android Study Channels
- 8:04What's Going To Be the Deal with Live Data in the Next Few Months
- 9:16Will Rx Java Be Added in Android Jetpack or Arco Routines the Answer for a Reactive Ui
- 14:53Will Custom Views Have Their Own View Models
- 16:50What It Means for Youtube Developers
- 17:17Is There any Available Roadmap To Understand When Certain Jetpack Libraries Will Move from Alpha or Beta to Production Ready
- 18:56Are There Plans for a Single Flow like Data for Example a Delete Call That Shows a Pop-Up of Success but every Time You Observe the Pop-Up Shows if It's Not Reset
- 24:10Objects versus Methods
- 25:56Is There any Chance that Google Will Be Writing Down Consistent Guidelines for Android Development because Having a View Model Class Is Not Enough
- 28:06Will the App Compat Packages Be Gone Anytime Soon Now that Android X Is Quite Established
- 29:49What Is the Reasoning behind Transitioning Away from Xml Files Even if the Api Is Nicer It Still Feels like a Bit Going Back to Java Swing
- 35:52What Is Jetpack
- 36:51The Benefits of Using the Activity Results Api
- 38:44Dependency Injection
- 46:50What Are the Main Differences between Jetbrains Compose or as It's Actually Called Compose for Desktop and Jetpack Compose
- 49:36Is Data Binding Dead
- 52:37Would You Provide in the Future a Guide or a Feature on Top of Navigation To Obtain Multiple Fragment Stacks with a Bottom Navigation View like the Youtube App Does
- 53:45What Is the Path To Become a Gdg Member
