Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:00:02 +0000
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: right;"></div> <div style="text-align: right;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8tpT11-QnY8/X0cAJ5QCpTI/AAAAAAAAPkk/Wi1KtKYBaBIYV2QNiPY85w1_tCgIvxr7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/JetpackCompose_logo.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <img border="0" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8tpT11-QnY8/X0cAJ5QCpTI/AAAAAAAAPkk/Wi1KtKYBaBIYV2QNiPY85w1_tCgIvxr7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/JetpackCompose_logo.png" width="320" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The real star of the show: Jetpack Compose</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> This week, after a long series of developer previews, we are celebrating the release of Jetpack Compose alpha. In this episode, Clara Bayarri, Matvei Malkov, and Anna-Chiara Bellini are joining Chet and Romain to talk about this milestone. You will learn more about what does the alpha mean to the team, where did Compose come from, how the team approaches API design, some of the challenges behind building a new UI toolkit, and much more.<br /> <br /> Subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage" target="_blank">podcast feed</a> or download the <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/ADB%20147%20Jetpack%20Compose.mp3" target="_blank">audio file</a> directly.<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;">Links</h3> <div><a href="https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose">Jetpack Compose</a><br /> <a href="https://developer.android.com/courses/pathways/compose">Tutorials and codelabs</a></div> <div><a href="https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/setup">Android Studio Setup</a><br /> <a href="https://github.com/android/compose-samples">Samples on GitHub</a><br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMOhl9RK0BA">Thinking in Compose (video)</a></div> <div><br /> <b>Chet</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/chethaase" target="_blank">@chethaase</a></div> <b>Tor</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/tornorbye" target="_blank">@tornorbye</a><br /> <b>Romain</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/romainguy" target="_blank">@romainguy</a><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i><i><br /></i><i>Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.</i></div> </div> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage/~4/K_Yw0daQ9M0" width="1" />