A common Android architectural pattern is to consume events in a UI View that are triggered from asynchronous web service code in a View Model. While there are many approaches to solving this problem, I wanted to share the approach I often use. You may have another approach that works even better, but this approach has …

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Adding a dropdown menu to a Jetpack ComposeTopAppBar is quite easy, but simple examples aren't so easy to find! This post has a canonical example to use as a basis for your dropdown menu. Add a Scaffold that Includes a TopAppBar The first step is to create the Compose view as a Scaffold that assigns a new TopAppBar to …

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