How to use Material Themebuilder generated themes with bundled fonts in an Android Compose project

When using Material theme builder, kotlin theme files are generated using downloadable Google fonts.

I wanted to change these fonts which are dynamically downloaded by the running application with fonts that were bundled with my Android Studio Kotlin Compose application. Here are the steps to do replace the downloadable fonts

1. Download the kotlin theme and integrate it in your application's theme folder
   
2. Download the font
   
• You can download the google font ttf files here.
• Alternatively work with any other ttf file you want to replace the downloadable Google fonts with
3. Add the font to your project. (Elaborate instructions on adding fonts to your compose project here)
1. In your project create a font folder under res (if it does not exist yet)
2. Put the downloaded ttf files in this folder. 
3. Replace all dash characters "-" in the filename with underscores "_". Replace all uppercase characters in the filename with lowercace (optionally preceded by an underscore).
   
4.  Adapt ...ui.theme.Type.kt in your project
1. Replace all occurences of
   

   Font(
       googleFont = GoogleFont("theFontName"),
       fontProvider = provider,
   )

   with

   Font(
     R.font.the_font_filename
   )

2. remove the provider variable and its initialisation

Test and run! 

Additional cookbooks on adding fonts to your compose project:

• alexz
• Google codelab
  

Man prosecuted for fake Biden phone calls generated using AI

A political consultant for a rivaling democratic candidate generated AI driven phone calls to encourage supporters of US president Biden to abstain from participating in the pre-elections.

The consultant used software from elevenlabs for $150.

AI deep fakes are also being used in the Indian Elections to generate video's of politicians making fake statements.

This shows how AI generated deep fakes are a threat to democracy.

Google bundles Gemini AI in latest Android Studio

Gemini chat integration and code completion are now bundled in the new Android Studio JellyFish, without licensing needs while in preview. You have to explicitly log in and enable the feature.

 

 

 

 

 

• It comes with Android Gradle plugin 8.4 and gradle 8.6. Due to automatic profiling it runs our apps faster after the first run.
• The layout inspector is now integrated in your device emulator window, allowing you to see if your components are where you'd expect them to be and to exaine their attributes.
  

Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content.

Jon Gillham

Java -> Kotlin equivalents

If your starting Kotlin with prior java knowledge, here's a quick lookup table for some common equivalents:

 

Java	Kotlin
Accessibility modifiers: private protected //default package private public	private protected Internal // accessible in module //default public
String [] anArray;	var anArray:Array<String>
(castType)	smart casting after is as
public class Area { private int length; private int width;   //constructor public Area(int length, int width){ this.length = length; this.width =  width; System.out.printf("Surface: %d",length*width); }   //accessor public int getCircumference(){ return 2*(length+width); } }	class Area(var length: Int , var width: Int) {             //to add onstructor code init { println("Surface: ${length * width}") }         //accessor val circumference get() = 2*(length + width)   }
anEnum.values()	anEnum.entries
class Shape{} class Rectangle extends Shape{}	open class Shape {} class Rectangle : Shape {}
final String aConstant="a";	val aConstant="a"
instanceOf	is
Primitives: int, double...	Int,Double...
lambda (shorter forms exist in both languages) BiFunction<Integer, Integer, Integer> mutiply= (a, b) -> { System.out.println("java lambda"); return a * b; };	val multiply: (Int, Int)->Int = { a, b -> println("kotlin lambda") a * b }
new Random();	Random();
Object	Any?
public static void main(String[] args){} // Note: Java 22 has a preview of a main() function	fun main(args:Array<String>){}
static	companion top level function const
switch expression	when
int ternaryVar=test?1:2;	var ternaryVar = if(test) 1 else 2;
throw UnsupportedOperationException	TODO()
void	Unit

intelliJ 2024.1 released

 

The yearly large IntelliJ release (2024.1) is out with a host of new features. Here's a list of highlights

• the IDE comes wiith local language models trained to provide based line completion. It is included in the Ultimate Edition, you do not need an additional  AI Assistant license for this. Also, the AI assistant plugin has been unbundled: it was pretty useless if you did not have a dedicated license.
  You cannot run it in combinamtion with other external AI plugins like github copilot.
  
• Refactoring inlay hint  when you rename something in your source code. Well that would be welcome, but I do not see this working??
  
• Basic IDE features like code highlighting and completion are available during indexing, speeding up the IDE experience when switching projects.
• There is a beta of a new, modern terminal. You get better assistance as you're used to have in the editor and can handle command reply interactions as blocks.
  
• Freeze top lines: just like in a spreadsheet you can now freeze important top lines (start of cklass, method...) when scrolling
• Better logging support: you can now navigate from logs to the statment that generated them. The IDE will also suggest inserting logging statements in your code.
• The entire code review workflow is now implemented in your IDE. You can create merge requests from the IDE and reviewers and developers can interact on them from the IDE, without going to the github or gitlab websites.
• You can now merge unrelated git histories
  
• You can now download source code from the quick documentation popup.
• Builtin CSS functions are now suggested by code completions
  
• When debugging multiple statements in one line you get assistance on where exactly in that line you want to break. Useful, Given the ubiquitous use of lamda's.
• Also in the debugger, when watching the call stack, subsequent calls to external libraries are folded, allowing you to pick calls to the code you wrote more easily
• when running an npm script, you can now automatically launch a browser client.
  
• When testing you get better feedback on which conditionals were not covered
• The already great HTTP client now gets support for authentications like PKCE
• Intellij now integrates with OpenRewrite refactorings to enhance you in version (and other) migarations.

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Google to destroy data colleced in incongnito mode after lawsuit

After settling a lawsuit, Google will destroy tracking information it collected on websites containing google tracking (analytics) or advertising info for users browsing in incognito mode.

It only collected information if

• users had a google account, even if the were not logged into it
• users were not using firefox, which has better privacy

Data will be deleted on about 136 million users.

Separte from the lawsuit, Google is also phasing out usage of third party cookies in Chrome. Currently you can configure chrome to block third pary cookies, it just is not the default as it is in Firefox and Safari.

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