Android 11—Week 6—Jetpack

Welcome to Android 11—Week 6—Jetpack! Watch this introductory teaser to prepare for the activities in this pathway.

Hilt is a new Android library that simplifies dependency injection (DI) in your app, allowing you to focus on just the important parts of defining and injecting bindings without worrying about managing all of the DI setup and wiring. Read this article to learn more about DI principles and how to enable Hilt in your app.

In this codelab, you learn how to use Hilt as the dependency injection (DI) tool to manage dependencies, and the importance of DI to create a solid and extensible app that scales to large projects.

The Paging library has gone through a complete upgrade. Read this article to learn more about the highlights and features of Paging 3, as well as how to adopt it in your apps.

Paging 3 is a complete rewrite of the Paging 2 library, offering better error handling, support for common features, and more. Watch this video to learn about the updates and changes introduced in Paging 3.

In this codelab, you learn what the main components of the Paging 3 library are, and how to add Paging into your Android app so it can load and display pages of data from a larger dataset from local storage or over network.

CameraX is a Jetpack library designed to help you develop camera apps easier, with support for older Android devices built in. Watch this video to see the updates in the new beta release, including fixes for device-related issues.

In this codelab, you learn about the Jetpack support library CameraX, it’s different use cases, and how to add the CameraX dependencies to a camera app.