just launched a way to get dp distance in android ...

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[Kevin]

just launched a way to get dp distance in android studio preview window on any composable that you select. here's the full launch post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7353178193303932928/

and here is a quick video of it working!

devmode.mp4

[Oleksandr Balan]

Wow, looks really awesome! Is it possible to show a size of the selected component?

[Kevin]

yep i can add it in the next release

[Kevin]

thanks for the recommendation @Oleksandr Balan!!

[Ving]

Nice ! But we have to install the Firebender plugin for that, even though we don't use the rest of the functionalities right ?

[Kevin]

@Oleksandr Balan done

[Kevin]

width/height show up above the selected component in the top left

[Kevin]

@Ving yes you need to download, but you can use this functionality w/o using the rest of the plugin!

[Ving]

Wow. A few minutes to dev a request from a user. That's impressive !

[Kevin]

🫡🫡 🫡

[Ving]

Just noticed a bug. I don't know if it's a rounding issue or not but the top and bottom padding are not the same. But we know it's the same. Is that a known issue ?

[Kevin]

its possible theres a rounding/floating point issue here

[Kevin]

im going to dm you on how to repro this!

[Kevin]

often times theres some relative sizing that affects the bottom calculation

[Kevin]

the dp values here are in absolute terms of what is actually getting rendered (meaning it can catch relative sizing problems that you didn't expect)