With Jetpack Compose entering beta today, the Android team is encouraging developers to learn about and “get ready to adopt” the modern toolkit for building native UI. To do so, Google is launching a monthlong Android Dev Challenge that includes Jetpack Compose-themed prizes.
Google will offer four weekly challenges that familiarize developers with the Compose mental model and different APIs. Upcoming topics will cover animations, Material Theming, composables, and lists.
Last year’s challenge focused on machine learning, and the winning Android developers got the opportunity to consult Googlers and Play Store promotion. For this round, Google touts over 1,000 prizes in the coming weeks.
Every Wednesday, a blog post will detail requirements, with solutions needing to be implemented in a GitHub repository. A template with instructions in the README file is available here.
Week 1 | Jetpack Compose Android Dev Challenge
The first challenge starts today and submissions must be received by March 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. It involves building a mock puppy adoption app with an “overview screen that displays a list of puppies, and a detail screen showing each puppy’s details.”
Your UI must be fully built in Compose. Your submission will only be judged based on your app’s UI layer. To help you with the implementation, check out the Compose documentation on layouts, lists, text and navigation. For some paws-on learning try out the Compose pathway, with codelabs covering several topics useful in completing this challenge.
For this week, the first 500 people to finish will get a Lego Jetpack Compose superhero trophy. One of the upcoming prizes will be a Pixel 5, with Google noting how a “similarly valued electronics gift card for winners that reside in a country where a Google Pixel 5 is unavailable.”
Author: Abner Li
Source: 9TO5Google
