Is there a way to request talkback focus on a particular element? I've tried

Modifier.semantics { focused = isMyElementFocused }

but this seems a little wrong since focus is an externally-tracked, transient thing, and in my case indeed it does not work. I'm showing a swipeable container and I want to focus on the handle element which is also clickable to dismiss the container. I want to grab focus when the container opens (since I'll be covering up the rest of the app and focus will be lost), but trying a focus requester, semantics modifier, or even regular focus doesn't seem to work for me. Focus just lands on an arbitrary element of the container or on the scrim covering the app. Any tips on what I might be doing wrong here?

Is it possible to tell kotlinx serialization not to escape a particular string? So if I have a class:

@Serializable
data class ContainsJsonString(val name: String, val jsonString: String)

Is there some annotation which will let me tell kotlinx not to escape or otherwise mess about with the

jsonString

property? I don't need to worry about deserialization, only interested in writing the class `ConstainsJsonString`to a json file. Output would be something like:

{ "name" : "Liam",
  "jsonString": { "address" : "1 Acacia Avenue", "favouriteColour": "blue" }
}

Right now I'm getting something like:

{ "name": "Liam",
  "jsonString": "{ \\\"address\\\" : \\\"1 Acacia Avenue\\\":\\\"favouriteColour\\\":\\\"blue\\\"}" }

(Posted in this the wrong channel earlier, sorry!)

i keep getting "The 'java' plugin has been applied, but it is not compatible with the Android plugins."

Is this the idiomatic way to do debounce for a text field? I suck with flows and just want to make sure I'm not shooting myself in the foot.

class VM : ViewModel() {
    val text = MutableStateFlow("")
    val dbText = text.debounce(2000).distinctUntilChanged().flatMapLatest { (it) }

    private fun queryFromDb(query: String): Flow<String> {
        ...
    }
}

Hello, everyone! What is the best way to generate OpenAPI docs basing on Ktor routings (already written)? There`s Ktor OpenAPI Generator (https://github.com/papsign/Ktor-OpenAPI-Generator), but the project seems not very active.

I upgraded the Kotest version from <kotest.version>4.6.4</kotest.version> to <kotest.version>5.1.0</kotest.version> in my maven pom. and now I'm getting the following error. this is a spring boot project with 100% Kotlin.

How can I create LazyColumn in LazyColumn? I get

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Vertically scrollable component was measured with an infinity maximum height constraints, which is disallowed. One of the common reasons is nesting layouts like LazyColumn and Column(Modifier.verticalScroll()). If you want to add a header before the list of items please add a header as a separate item() before the main items() inside the LazyColumn scope. There are could be other reasons for this to happen: your ComposeView was added into a LinearLayout with some weight, you applied Modifier.wrapContentSize(unbounded = true) or wrote a custom layout. Please try to remove the source of infinite constraints in the hierarchy above the scrolling container.

error

How can I create a Full Screen dialog? Dialog properties throw an error. Does anyone know of a different method?

Is there an way to mock a function that receives a callback as parameter? For example, assuming that I have an assync operation, and the way to get the result is using an interface as callback. I want to unit test this method, defining responses in this callback. The problem lies in the fact that the callback is declared as anonymous (I will put an example below). Is possible to mock this callback and define its responses using MockK? Here is an example:

class ViewModel {

	fun loadSomeStuff() {
		myObject.asyncOperation(object : Callback {
			//callback methods implementation
		})
	}
}

I know if I change the callback for a parameter in my class, it will be easily mocked. But, in my opinion it doesn't make sense, because it's related to the operation I need in the method. (This example is just for learning purposes, I was trying to teach a colleague about unit tests, and I got stocked in this scenario)

easiest way to cast a mutable list into a list?