AndroidX Releases

When I first drafted this AndroidX section, earlier this week, there weren’t many library updates. I figured it made sense: people were just getting back from the long holiday, probably learning how to type again, and not a lot had changed since December.

Boy, was I wrong.

January 22nd hit, and a ton of libraries were released. Check out the details on the AndroidX releases site, but here are some of the highlights.

First, many libraries went stable, including:

Fragment 1.2.0 introduces FragmentContainerView as the recommended container for fragments, integrates in Lifecycle ViewModel SavedState, and fixes timing issues with onDestroyView() when using animations/transitions.

when using animations/transitions. Lifecycle 2.2.0 has the new lifecycle-runtime-ktx artifact with Kotlin coroutine integration, plus greater integration into the existing lifecycle-livedata-ktx artifact for coroutines.

artifact with Kotlin coroutine integration, plus greater integration into the existing artifact for coroutines. Lifecycle-Viewmodel-Savedstate 1.0.0 is the first release of this library. ViewModels can now participate in onSaveInstanceState() via the new SavedStateHandle class without the boilerplate of overriding and handling saved state manually in your Activity/Fragment. See the docs for more information on this new library.

via the new SavedStateHandle class without the boilerplate of overriding and handling saved state manually in your Activity/Fragment. See the docs for more information on this new library. Navigation 2.2.0 provides navigation graph-scoped Lifecycles and SavedState with the new NavBackStackEntry , query parameter support for deep links, and improved animation support.

, query parameter support for deep links, and improved animation support. WorkManager 2.3.0 has new setProgress() and setForeground() APIs, which allow you to communicate progress as your Worker runs, as well as allowing a Worker to run in a foreground service when necessary.

Also going stable recently were Activity 1.1.0, SQLite 2.1.0, and Transition 1.3.0.

Various AndroidX libraries also hit alpha, including these two which just reached their first alpha milestone: