In fact, someone has already contributed a shader: My plan is to add support for custom shaders into Haze as public API, and then add a materials class which uses it for LG.

Seems to be a lot of talk about Haze and Liquid Glass…. At its core, Haze is a background content transform library, and the ‘visual effect’ (blurring, etc) is just an implementation detail. Liquid Glass will be a runtime shader like others which Haze already uses.

💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released!. This is a big release:.🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android.🎨 Foreground (content) blurring.📐 Blurred edge treatment. 🔗:

💠 Haze 1.6.0-beta01 has been released!. 🐛: Android 12 is now enabled by default.🤖: Experimental blurring support for all Android versions. The video below is recorded on a Pixel 3 running Android 11, but it works back to Android 5. 🔗:

🪢 Multiplatform Strings. This blog post talks through a solution which we've landed on, using a single file as the source of truth for all strings, across all of our apps.

🚀 Should you use Kotlin Sequences for Performance?. I have always thought that using asSequence() was the way to optimize chained operations in Kotlin. But after benchmarking, the results shocked me: Sequences are often slower! 😅. #Kotlin #AndroidDev.

It’s all about the screenshot tests. With a graphics effect library, it’s so easy to cause visual regressions. Screenshot tests give immediate feedback so I spend less time developing. The Robolectric folks have done an amazing job with RNG. It even runs custom runtime shaders!.

Haze 1.3.0 has been released!. 🔵 Radial Progressive (gradient) effects.🖌️ Brush support in tints.🧑‍💻 New samples.

sooooo good.

💠 Haze 1.2.0 has been released. The big change in this release is that it now supports overlapping blurred areas. 🔗:

I'm thinking about renaming the modifiers in Haze but not quite sure what to use. If you want to help, you can comment here:.

💠 Here's a sneak preview of something that I've been working on in Haze: overlapping areas. With this you'll be able to implement those classic glassy card effects. I still need to run the performance benchmarks, but it seems to be working nicely. 🔗:

Here's the slides from a talk I gave at work about Haze. There's no recording or anything, but the slides should hopefully be self-explanatory.

Haze 1.1 💠 has been released!. The main change is the new 'Input Scale' parameter, which allows you to set an optional (down)scaling mode. This should have a positive effect on performance when enabled.

After what feels like a lifetime of development, I've decided to deprecate and archive Tivi 🫡.

Haze 1.0 💠 has been released!. This is a big release, not only because of the version number, but also because of the amount of changes since the latest stable release. You can read more below:.

Haze 0.9.0-beta04 has been released!. Progressive (gradient) blurring and new styling APIs. Nearly there for final release, just got some performance work to do.

…and another library bites the dust. 🪟 material3-windowsizeclass-multiplatform is now deprecated.

Here's a sneak preview of something that I've been working on in Haze. ✨ Progressive Blur ✨. I'm still working out the kinks (and an API), but as a proof of concept I think it works really well. Hoping to get it in for the next release.