June 4, 2025
androidx.activity:activity:1.12.0-alpha02, androidx.activity:activity-compose:1.12.0-alpha02, and androidx.activity:activity-ktx:1.12.0-alpha02 are released. Version 1.12.0-alpha02 contains these commits.
Bug Fixes
1.0.0-alpha02: Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException that could occur when NavigationEventCallback.remove() was called due to simultaneously modifying the internal list of closeables. (I63066)June 4, 2025
androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.7.1 and androidx.appcompat:appcompat-resources:1.7.1 are released. Version 1.7.1 contains these commits.
Bug Fixes
AppCompat has been updated to use Activity 1.8.0 to allow it to use the initializeViewTreeOwners() API from ComponentActivity to ensure that it always has the correct ViewTreeOwners set. This fixes an incompatibility between AppCompatActivity and NavigationEvent and libraries that build on top of it such as Navigation 3. (I96919, b/419208471)June 4, 2025
androidx.appfunctions:appfunctions:1.0.0-alpha02, androidx.appfunctions:appfunctions-compiler:1.0.0-alpha02, and androidx.appfunctions:appfunctions-service:1.0.0-alpha02 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha02 contains these commits.
New Features
AppFunctionSerializable(s) at compile time.API Changes
AppFunctionSchemaDefinition API, enabling agents to define their own predefined function schemas.Bug Fixes
AppFunctions.observeAppFunctions API to observe changes in AppFunctionComponentMetadata.June 4, 2025
androidx.autofill:autofill:1.3.0 is released. Version 1.3.0 contains these commits.
Important changes since AutoFill 1.2.0
June 4, 2025
androidx.benchmark:benchmark-*:1.4.0-beta02 is released. Version 1.4.0-beta02 contains these commits.
API Changes
BaselineProfileConfig.Builder to make it easier to call BaselineProfileRule.collectWithResults() for Java developers. (I94905)June 4, 2025
androidx.camera.featurecombinationquery:featurecombinationquery:1.5.0-beta01 and androidx.camera.featurecombinationquery:featurecombinationquery-play-services:1.5.0-beta01 are released. Version 1.5.0-beta01 contains these commits.
New Features
FeatureCombinationQuery artifacts have been moved to their own library group. This change is necessary to improve the modularity and maintainability of the CameraX library.API Changes
SessionConfigurationCompat and SessionParametersCompat have been renamed to SessionConfigurationLegacy and SessionParametersLegacy respectively to better reflect their function in supporting older APIs only.CameraDeviceSetupCompat.#isSessionConfigurationSupported(SessionConfigurationCompat) has been changed to CameraDeviceSetupCompat.#isSessionConfigurationSupportedLegacy(SessionConfigurationLegacy)June 4, 2025
androidx.camera.viewfinder:viewfinder-compose:1.5.0-beta02, androidx.camera.viewfinder:viewfinder-core:1.5.0-beta02, and androidx.camera.viewfinder:viewfinder-view:1.5.0-beta02 are released. Version 1.5.0-beta02 contains these commits.
June 4, 2025
androidx.compose.animation:animation-*:1.9.0-alpha04 is released. Version 1.9.0-alpha04 contains these commits.
June 4, 2025
androidx.compose.foundation:foundation-*:1.9.0-alpha04 is released. Version 1.9.0-alpha04 contains these commits.
API Changes
PrefetchScheduler and customisation have been deprecated in favor of the internal implementation that does all the work automatically. (I3a9a6, b/420551535)Scrollable2DState to use an offset in the canScroll method instead of an angle. (I28694, b/417268474)addAnnotation in AnnotatedOutputTransformation with addStyle. (I91c6f, b/417991824)LazyLayout. (If5db4)LazyLayoutPrefetchState and it's scheduling method schedulePrecomposition and schedulePrecompositionAndPremeasure. (I4362f, b/252853717)ProcessTextKey on Android used for context menu items that's added for PROCESS_TEXT intent actions. (If0ac4)Modifier.addTextContextMenuComponents and Modifier.filterTextContextMenuComponents to add and remove items in context menu. And also made the following elementary APIs public so that one can build a customized context menu:
TextContextMenuProviderTextContextMenuDataProviderTextContextMenuDataTextContextMenuComponentLocalTextContextMenuDropdownProviderLocalTextContextMenuToolbarProvider (I1b7b0)LazyLayoutItemProvider stable (Icce09, b/261565751)ComposeFoundationFlags.isSmartSelectionEnabled. It also exposed a static compositionLocal LocalTextClassifierCoroutineContext that can be used to specify the CoroutineContext in which the TextClassification job is launched. (I1dbaa, b/139321320)June 4, 2025
androidx.compose.material:material-*:1.9.0-alpha04 is released. Version 1.9.0-alpha04 contains these commits.
June 4, 2025
androidx.compose.runtime:runtime-*:1.9.0-alpha04 is released. Version 1.9.0-alpha04 contains these commits.
API Changes
SnapshotStateSet now implements Parcelable on Android, it is now supported to be used as part rememberSaveable { ... }. (I755dd, b/378623803)SnapshotStateList now implements Parcelable on Android, it is now supported to be used as part rememberSaveable { ... }. (Id18be, b/378623803)movableContentOf() is now marked with @RememberInComposition annotation, which allows lint to catch incorrect usages (I2738d)Bug Fixes
onForgotton that could, for example, cause the onDispose of disposable effects to execute in the wrong order. (Ic1c91, b/417450712)External Contribution
RecompositionMode.Immediate could cause missed recompositions. (I9f3a9, b/419527812)PausableComposition isApplied and isCancelled getters which allow for checking the state of the PausableComposition. (I994aa)June 4, 2025
androidx.compose.ui:ui-*:1.9.0-alpha04 is released. Version 1.9.0-alpha04 contains these commits.
API Changes
SemanticsModifierNode.isImportantForBounds property that determines whether the node should be taken into account when computing bounds. The property is true by default and can be set to false to indicate that the node should not be taken into account for bounds. (I7ebec)SemanticsPropertyKey factory function for declaring Android-specific semantics properties that are made available as accessibility extras exposed via AccessibilityNodeInfo.getExtras. (I2ed51)ComposeUiFlags.isRemoveFocusedViewFixEnabled and deprecated the flag. (I50328)DropShadowPainter and InnerShadowPainter as well as the DropShadow/InnerShadow dependencies. Shadow infrastructure is shared such that the same generated shadows can be shared at multiple callsites without having to re-generate the shadows n-times. (I24f7a, b/160665122)CompositeShader and CompositeShaderBrush which creates a composited result between two shaders. Also add ShaderBrush#transform to set a transformation matrix for the shader. (I2621a, b/160665122)Bug Fixes
NestedScrollInteropConnection where fling methods were being in the wrong order with respect to views. (I56ad4)decorFitsSystemWindows = false and usePlatformDefaultWidth = false can take the display cutout region. (I9e975)TalkBack’s green focus indicator was not drawn after being turned on while the Compose app is in the background. (Ifd12a)June 4, 2025
androidx.emoji2:emoji2-*:1.6.0-alpha01 is released. Version 1.6.0-alpha01 contains these commits.
New Features
Bug Fixes
-Xjspecify-annotations=strict, -Xtype-enhancement-improvements-strict-mode (Id07e7, b/326456246)June 4, 2025
androidx.fragment:fragment-*:1.8.8 is released. Version 1.8.8 contains these commits.
Bug Fixes
FragmentManager would crash while trying to save the state of Fragments that were added with setMaxLifecycle(Lifecycle.State.INITIALIZED). These fragments, since they never when through onCreate(), no longer have any state saved or onSaveInstanceState() called. (I6e37a)June 4, 2025
androidx.health.connect:connect-client:1.1.0-rc02, androidx.health.connect:connect-client-external-protobuf:1.1.0-rc02, and androidx.health.connect:connect-client-proto:1.1.0-rc02 are released. Version 1.1.0-rc02 contains these commits.
Bug Fixes
June 4, 2025
androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-*:2.9.1 is released. Version 2.9.1 contains these commits.
Bug Fixes
SavedStateHandle.remove(key) not clearing SavedStateHandle.getMutableStateFlow(key) states. (d5f939, b/418746333)June 4, 2025
androidx.mediarouter:mediarouter:1.8.0 and androidx.mediarouter:mediarouter-testing:1.8.0 are released. Version 1.8.0 contains these commits.
Important changes since MediaRouter 1.7.0
MediaRouteProviderService clients.onRouteDisconnected callback with both disconnected and requested routes.June 4, 2025
androidx.navigation3:navigation3-*:1.0.0-alpha03 is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha03 contains these commits.
Bug Fixes
Navigation3 will no longer clear decorator states for backStacks that have been swapped out and replaced with another backStack instance. (I28a42, b/415076044)June 4, 2025
androidx.navigationevent:navigationevent-*:1.0.0-alpha02 is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha02 contains these commits.
API Changes
NavigationEventDispatcher's secondary constructor with default arguments. (I716a0)NavigationEventCallback. Pass priority to NavigationEventDispatcher.addCallback() instead. (I13cae)Bug Fixes
ConcurrentModificationException that could occur when NavigationEventCallback.remove() was called due to simultaneously modifying the internal list of closeables. (b/420919815)June 4, 2025
androidx.photopicker:photopicker:1.0.0-alpha01, androidx.photopicker:photopicker-compose:1.0.0-alpha01, and androidx.photopicker:photopicker-testing:1.0.0-alpha01 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha01 contains these commits.
New Features
API Changes
EmbeddedPhotopicker composable for as an entrypoint for compose based applications.
rememberEmbeddedPhotoPickerState can be used (recommended) or applications can implement their own state management with the EmbeddedPhotoPickerState interface.EmbeddedPhotopickerView as an entrypoint for view based applications.
EmbeddedPhotoPickerStateChangeListener can be used to receive related callbacks to state inside the PhotoPicker.TestEmbeddedPhotoPickerProvider to allow apps to test flows that rely on the Embedded Photopicker.June 4, 2025
androidx.security:security-crypto:1.1.0-beta01 and androidx.security:security-crypto-ktx:1.1.0-beta01 are released. Version 1.1.0-beta01 contains these commits.
API Changes
June 4, 2025
androidx.test.uiautomator:uiautomator:2.4.0-alpha04 is released. Version 2.4.0-alpha04 contains these commits.
API Changes
onView to onElement to clarify it works with compose (I53a3b, b/419006806)Bug Fixes
waitForStableInActiveWindow (290457f1, b/420349130)June 4, 2025
androidx.wear.compose:compose-*:1.5.0-beta03 is released. Version 1.5.0-beta03 contains these commits.
API Changes
OpenOnPhoneDialog now announces only the message text under TalkBack, and skips the icon semantics. The OpenOnPhoneDialogDefaults have been updated to remove the iconContentDescription and the contentDescription parameter from icon(). Also, ConfirmationDialogDefaults now has modifier parameters on SuccessIcon and FailureIcon composables. (Id2ae2)Bug Fixes
SurfaceTransformation parameters. Before, the transformations applied to Wear Material3 components were done as follows: background painter, container transformation, content transformation. Now, the first 2 are inverted, and we apply any passed in modifier between them, so it is affected by container transformations. This fixes cases like using a placeholder shimmer effect with elements in a TLC using the transformation parameter. (I786cf)RevealState.Saver was added to be used to restore the state of SwipeToReveal when activity or process is recreated. rememberRevealState function now uses this Saver by default. (Ie0ecb)SwipeToReveal primary and secondary actions buttons should default to ButtonDefault.Height (fixed bug where these were filling the maximum height for taller buttons). (Ibfba1)SwipeToReveal to reset the last component interacted with, when the swipe right gesture is performed. (Ia8450)SwipeToReveal was changed to settle on the Revealing state when the end position of the swipe is in between the revealing and revealed anchors, and is closer to the Revealing anchor. (If4458)ButtonGroup's content is properly inverted in a RTL layout (Ib378d)AnimatedText now supports RTL text direction (I4533c)TransformingLazyColumn now resizes items correctly when the bottom item is removed (Idacab)TransformingLazyColumn now makes just one measuring pass, which improves performance by reducing frame times. (I501a1)June 4, 2025
androidx.wear.protolayout:protolayout-*:1.3.0 is released. Version 1.3.0 contains these commits.
Important changes since 1.2.0
protolayout-material3 library with more Compose-like APIs for the following components and features:MaterialScope for taking care of all opinionated defaults and easier customizationiconEdgeButton, textEdgeButtoniconButton, textButton, button, imageButton, avatarButton, compactButtontitleCard, appCard, graphicDataCard, iconDataCard, textDataCardcircularProgressIndicator, segmentedCircularProgressIndicatorprimaryLayout, buttonGroupProtoLayout Renderer version, supplying sensible fallbacks where applicableLayoutModifier with ability to add the most of modifiers as chained functions (padding, contentDescription (including clearSemantics), background, clip, opacity etc.), convertible to the existing Modifiers objectLayoutColors and LayoutString as types with easier support for using dynamic fields and constraintstext and fontStyleStateBuilder, including DynamicDataMap and factory methods such as intAppDataKey for easier creation of AppDataKey objectsBrush that can be used in Background modifiers for elements such as Box, Spacer, etc. …ColorStop used for linear and sweep gradientprotolayout-expression to receive information anytime that layout’s visibility is changed, which for example can be use to hide certain parts of the layout while tile is being swiped toprotolayout-testing - has been added to support easier Unit test coverage for any ProtoLayout elementsDashedArcLine with improved set of features so that line can have dashes, as opposed to the existing ArcLineArcSpacer support for setting its length in DP dimension instead of degreesFontSetting axis applicable to some fontsJune 4, 2025
androidx.wear.tiles:tiles-*:1.5.0 is released. Version 1.5.0 contains these commits.
Important changes since 1.4.0
TileService.onRecentInteractionEvents() for processing interaction tile events (Enter / Leave) in batches.
TileService for onEnterEvent and onLeaveEvent are deprecated and won’t work from SDK 36+ for Apps targeting API 36 or moreSecurityException.June 4, 2025
androidx.webkit:webkit:1.14.0 is released. Version 1.14.0 contains these commits.
Important changes since 1.13.0
PaymentRequest API for invoking Android native payment apps through org.chromium.intent.action.PAY intent. PaymentRequest is disabled by default and WebView host apps can call WebSettingsCompat.setPaymentRequestEnabled(settings, true) to enable it. In addition, PaymentRequest requires a <queries> tag in AndroidManifest.xml. See documentation for setPaymentRequestEnabled() for more information.WebView. These APIs provide detailed information about navigation events. Get started by calling WebViewCompat.setNavigationClient with an implementation of the new WebNaviagationClient interface to get detailed information about page navigation. For more information about the navigation lifecycle, please see the Life of a Navigation Presentation.