Summary
This chapter covered advanced Jetpack Compose topics including CompositionLocal and side-effects such as LaunchedEffect, DisposableEffect, and SideEffect.
You also explored animations on Jetpack Compose. Animations can improve the usability of our application and make it stand out compared to other apps. You learned about the different animation APIs that you can use for your applications, such as animating a single value, the appearance or disappearance of elements, multiple values, size changes of elements, changes between composables, and values indefinitely. You also learned about customizing animations and debugging them on Android Studio.
In the next chapter, you’ll learn about launching your apps on the Google Play Store. You’ll explore how you can create a Google Play Developer account and prepare your apps for release, as well as how you can publish them later so that users can download and use them.