BasicTextField2, Event Handling in Kotlin, Anti-Patterns, Push Notifications in KMM, & more!
BasicTextField2: A TextField of Dreams [1/2] Alejandra Stamato covers a dive into the past, present and future of text fields in Jetpack Compose. Elegant Event Handling in Kotlin — A Refactoring Walkthrough Sven Nähler goes over how to unlock peak performance in Kotlin code with these expert refactoring tips….
![BasicTextField2: A TextField of Dreams [1/2] | by Alejandra Stamato | Nov, 2023](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1200/1*XKnpEcXZsWMzv0GV3S36AQ.png "BasicTextField2: A TextField of Dreams [1/2] | by Alejandra Stamato | Nov, 2023")
BasicTextField2: A TextField of Dreams [1/2] | by Alejandra Stamato | Nov, 2023
Meet TextField (orBasicTextField) APIs to implement a text field in Jetpack Compose: var textField by rememberSaveable { mutableStateOf(“”) }TextField(value = textField,onValueChange = { textField = it },) This simple API has a series of shortcomings, most notably: It is way too easy to introduce async…
![BasicTextField2: A TextField of Dreams [2/2] | by Alejandra Stamato | Nov, 2023](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1200/1*E3CtXYu26Hmw-XdIHAB8cQ.png "BasicTextField2: A TextField of Dreams [2/2] | by Alejandra Stamato | Nov, 2023")
BasicTextField2: A TextField of Dreams [2/2] | by Alejandra Stamato | Nov, 2023
In part 1️⃣ we’ve covered how to: manage state with the new BasicTextField2 APIs to prevent state synchronicity issues do basic styling including using decorator and line limits solve for common scenarios when observing state and applying business rules edit the value of the text…