Android Jetpack Compose Logbook— Day 1

efe budak
2 min readMar 8, 2021

This post is solely to keep my learning progress. Nothing new, no innovation…

7th March 2021

22:35

My starting point is the google codelabs. I prefer to have an empty activity for my new projects and especially for something I learn it needs to be a step-by-step process. So thanks for the “Empty Compose Activity” but no.

I am directed to the documentation page for the Jetpack Compose. Of course, I scrolled down until I see some code. Added my configuration codes and saw a message at the right bottom of the screen.

This is not something I expected but it makes sense since ‘Compose’ is still in beta. The 4.2 Beta version is not enough either. I am installing the Canary version.

22:55

The installation is done. I’m looking for a way to close the “tips” window. Yes, trying to close it. (!) I know it is the canary version.

22:59

Force quit did the job. No tip is displayed the next time.

23:11

I created my GitHub repo and pushed the first commit.

23:27

I have created Theme.kt and Color.kt files in the ui package. It is a weird feeling since they are resources that can be…

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