Compose artifacts updated yesterday :party_blob: It's long, so putting it inside a thread :sweat_sm...

# compose

[Colton Idle]

Compose artifacts updated yesterday 🎉

It's long, so putting it inside a thread 😅

[Colton Idle]

1.6.4 stable of animation, foundation, material, runtime, ui
• Seemingly small release
• A long-press-then-drag selection gesture which moves out of the text’s layout bounds in the first frame of the drag no longer crashes. (Icdf90, b/325307463)
1.5.11 of compiler
• Support for Kotlin 1.9.23
• Fix nested external generic types being inferred Unstable. (I3437f, b/327643787)
• Support multiple stability configuration files. (I8db14, b/325326744)
• Compose Compiler now correctly transforms overridden functions by recursively walking through base classes/overrides. (I2c9f9, b/316196500)
• Ensure that function reference memoization doesn't try to capture implicit parents of local declarations when they are not used directly. (Ib1267)
• Fix code generation for composable crossinline lambda (hard to encounter this bug without "nonSkippingGroupOptimization" enabled). (Icb2fd, b/325502738)
1.7.0-alpha05 of anim, foundation, material, runtime, ui
• SeekableTransitionState replaces snapTo() with seekTo(), and adds a snapTo() that immediately changes the state to a destination state without any kind of animation.
• Removed experimental LocalTextLinkStyle composition local for styling hyperlinks. (Iebfa7)
• Removed experimental override of BasicText with onLinkClicked argument. A replacement API for hyperlinks support will follow in the future. (I107d5)
• Removed Codepoints related methods and properties under TextFieldState and TextFieldBuffer. Also removed the inChars suffixes from the remaining selection and composition related APIs. (Ief7ce)
• `AnchoredDraggable`'s currentValue will now update when passing through an anchor point. Use settledValue to receive the previous currentValue semantics, only updating when settling at an anchor. The progress is now exposed as a function (requiring a starting and end point) instead of a property. (Ibe6e8, b/318707189, b/298271489, b/294991954)
• BasicTextField(state), TextFieldState, InputTransformation, OutputTransformation, TextFieldLineLimits, TextFieldDecorator are graduated to stable. (I9582b)
• Introduced InterceptPlatformTextInput for helping write low-level IME-related tests and other low-level IME use cases. PlatformTextInputTestOverride has been deprecated. (I862ed, b/322680547)
• Split restrictedConstraints() to two methods: fitPrioritizingWidth() and fitPrioritizingHeight() (I6d7fd)
• Added 2 new API `isLastScrollForward`/`isLastScrollBackward` to check scroll direction for latest scroll action, return false if no scroll action yet. (I63a0e)
• The ScaffoldSubcomposeInMeasureFix flag has been removed. (I67363)
• Clear late changes on deactivated composition (5950bc)
• Lots of graphics related stuff
• Introduce new GraphicsLayer API to record drawing commands in a display list as well as additional properties that affect the rendering of the display list. This provides an isolation boundary to divide a complex scene into smaller pieces that can be updated individually of one another without recreating the entire scene. Transformations made to a GraphicsLayer can be done without re-recording the display list. Unlike Modifier.graphicsLayer, GraphicsLayer allows for rendering of Composable content elsewhere and is useful in animated use cases where content is expected to be rendered in different scenes.
• GraphicsLayer.draw(Canvas) is not a public api anymore. Please use the DrawScope.drawLayer(GraphicsLayer) extension function instead to draw the layer. (I7a7c0)
• Split restrictedConstraints() to two methods: fitPrioritizingWidth() and fitPrioritizingHeight() (I6d7fd)
• Introduced HardwareCanvas stub for Android L usage (I1c3b5, b/288494724)
• Update Compose framework to expose a GraphicsContext composition local alongside updating Owner, DelegateableNode and drawWithCache Modifier implementations to expose access to the GraphicsContext for scoped access that will automatically cleanup GraphicsLayer instances when Modifiers are torn down. (I64a2f, b/288494724)
• Introduced InterceptPlatformTextInput for helping write low-level IME-related tests and other low-level IME use cases. PlatformTextInputTestOverride has been deprecated. (I862ed, b/322680547)
• GraphicsLayer.setOutline(Outline) extension function was added. (Ib81f4)
• Introduce GraphicsContext function constructor to create a factory to create GraphicsLayer instances (Ib98d6, b/288494724)
• Exposed GraphicsLayer API to provide developer defined flexibility in capturing drawing commands that can be used to draw elsewhere and also apply different visual effects to the end result. (I80245, b/288494724)
• Introduce the Paragraph#getRangeForRect which returns a range of text covered by a given rectangle area. (Iee516, b/325660505)
• Removed experimental override of BasicText with onLinkClicked argument. A replacement API for hyperlinks support will follow in the future. (I107d5)
• Added GraphicsLayer expect/actual API definition to support capturing and replaying of drawing commands with optional compositing visual effects and transforms. Introduce GraphicsContext interface to contain graphics dependencies including creation and management of GraphicsLayer instances. (I4a8d6, b/288494724)
• Fixed an interop issue with 1D focus search where focus would get stuck inside a ComposeView that was embedded among other views. (I08fd4)
• LocalLifecycleOwner moved from Compose UI to lifecycle-runtime-compose so that its Compose-based helper APIs can be used outside of Compose UI. Thanks Jake Wharton for the contribution. (I6c41b, b/328263448)
• Consistently expose bias float properties on all bias-based alignment subtypes. (I69f0f, b/328088992)
This is getting too long, so m3 1.3.0-alpha03 changes are here: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/compose-material3#1.3.0-alpha03

[Stylianos Gakis]

What the missing release notes say for those interested:
• Now Compose cooks you breakfast and helps you get out of bed
• Takes the kids to school for you
• Solves all your financial problems

[Colton Idle]

Bonus:
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/lifecycle?s=09#2.8.0-alpha03

The lifecycle-viewmodel artifact and APIs like ViewModel, ViewModelStore, ViewModelStoreOwner, and ViewModelProvider are now shipped in artifacts compatible with Kotlin Multiplatform. (b/214568825)

[Stylianos Gakis]

For the GraphicsLayer API, I asked here too https://androiddev.social/@gakisstylianos/112130559637680745
But I’m definitely curious to see it in action. It looks interesting but I think I’d need to see it used a bit to properly understand what it can do

[MR3Y]

The new LazyRow/Column Item animations modifier is one use case of the GraphicsLayer API https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/frameworks/support/+/2647907. my guess is that this was a blocker for them so, it took them so long to finally add this animateItem Modifier.