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The Shimmer Effect in Jetpack compose
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A New Feature Request: Enhancing the User Experience
It was a bright Monday morning when our product manager walked into the daily stand-up with an exciting new feature request.
“We need to add a sleek, animated shimmer effect for our placeholder content to enhance the loading experience. It should be consistent across the app and seamlessly integrate with our Compose UI.”
As an Android developer working with Jetpack Compose, I knew this would be an interesting challenge. Built-in modifiers like background(), padding(), and clickable() had been serving us well, but now, we needed something custom—something that Compose didn’t offer out of the box.
Let’s implement this step-by-step:
Expectation
Before diving into the code, let’s understand the key components that contribute to the shimmer effect:
- Placeholder UI: We need a visual representation of the content that’s being loaded. This is typically achieved using simple…
