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Here's a sneak preview of something that I've been working on in Haze... ✨ Progressive Blur ✨ I'm still working out the kinks (and an API), but as a proof of concept I think it works really well. Hoping to get it in for the next release.

…and another library bites the dust 🪟 material3-windowsizeclass-multiplatform is now deprecated github.com/chrisbanes/mat…

Haze 0.9.0-beta04 has been released! Progressive (gradient) blurring and new styling APIs. Nearly there for final release, just got some performance work to do. github.com/chrisbanes/haz…

Haze 1.0 💠 has been released! This is a big release, not only because of the version number, but also because of the amount of changes since the latest stable release. You can read more below: chrisbanes.me/posts/haze-1.0/

After what feels like a lifetime of development, I've decided to deprecate and archive Tivi 🫡 github.com/chrisbanes/tivi

Haze 1.1 💠 has been released! The main change is the new 'Input Scale' parameter, which allows you to set an optional (down)scaling mode. This should have a positive effect on performance when enabled. github.com/chrisbanes/haz…

Here's the slides from a talk I gave at work about Haze. There's no recording or anything, but the slides should hopefully be self-explanatory chrisbanes.me/talks/haze-tec…

💠 Here's a sneak preview of something that I've been working on in Haze: overlapping areas With this you'll be able to implement those classic glassy card effects. I still need to run the performance benchmarks, but it seems to be working nicely... 🔗: github.com/chrisbanes/haz…

I'm thinking about renaming the modifiers in Haze but not quite sure what to use. If you want to help, you can comment here: github.com/chrisbanes/haz…

💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas. 🔗: github.com/chrisbanes/haz…

sooooo good

Haze 1.3.0 has been released! 🔵 Radial Progressive (gradient) effects 🖌️ Brush support in tints 🧑‍💻 New samples github.com/chrisbanes/haz…

It’s all about the screenshot tests. With a graphics effect library, it’s so easy to cause visual regressions. Screenshot tests give immediate feedback so I spend less time developing. The Robolectric folks have done an amazing job with RNG. It even runs custom runtime shaders!

🚀 Should you use Kotlin Sequences for Performance? I have always thought that using asSequence() was the way to optimize chained operations in Kotlin. But after benchmarking, the results shocked me: Sequences are often slower! 😅 #Kotlin #AndroidDev chrisbanes.me/posts/use-sequ…

🪢 Multiplatform Strings This blog post talks through a solution which we've landed on, using a single file as the source of truth for all strings, across all of our apps. chrisbanes.me/posts/multipla…

💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released! 🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default 🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. 🔗: github.com/chrisbanes/haz…

💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released! This is a big release: 🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android 🎨 Foreground (content) blurring 📐 Blurred edge treatment 🔗: github.com/chrisbanes/haz…