Android Jetpack - official site

• suite of libraries to help developers
  • follow best practices
  • reduce boilerplate code
  • build apps consistent across different Android versions and devices
• Jetpack is recommended by Google to before mentioned goals
• Jetpack is a “newer version” of Support library

• Jetpack libraries are published in androidx namespace

The Reality of Migrating to AndroidX - tips for migration from Support Library to Android Jetpack

Artifact mappings (support library to androidx)

Disabling Jetifier

• Android Jetpack Compose

• Room

Official materials from Google:

• Working with Preferences DataStore - tutorial
• Use saved values - UI guide by Google
• https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/datastore

Articles:

• Simple Preferences & Proto DataStore Demo App
  • Example code:
    • PrefsDataStoreScreen
• https://www.netguru.com/blog/say-goodbye-to-sharedpreferences-meet-datastore by Patryk Springer
• All about Preferences DataStore by Simona Milanovic
  • Her example on Github: https://github.com/simona-anomis/android-datastore
• DataStore Tutorial For Android: Getting Started
• Preference DataStore (The Generic Way)
• Introduction to Jetpack DataStore – Alternative to SharedPreferences by Shehroz Asif
• Preferences DataStore a replacement for SharedPreferences!
• Time to migrate from Shared Preferences to DataStore
• Using Android Jetpack Datastore in Jetpack Compose
• Forbidden Love of Preference and DataStore — Part 1
  • Alexey Leontyev considers what is needed to make PreferenceFragmentCompat work with data from DataStore

Videos :

• Preferences DataStore - Best Way Of Storing Small Data In Your App

• https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation/navigation-3
  • https://github.com/android/nav3-recipes/blob/main/app/src/main/java/com/example/nav3recipes/passingarguments/viewmodels/basic/BasicViewModelsActivity.kt
• Short info (very useful for the start):
  • https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/announcing-jetpack-navigation-3-for-compose.html
• https://github.com/android/nav3-recipes
• also:
  • https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform/compose-navigation.html#retrieve-complex-data-when-navigating
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67121433/how-to-pass-object-in-navigation-in-jetpack-compose
  • https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/components/drawer

• Jetpack App Startup: keep your startup logic organized
• Understanding ViewModel Persistence Across Configuration Changes in Android