posts tagged compose

Updates to the Aardink editor v0.7.0

Tue Nov 10 2026

Aardink 0.7.0 lets the app around the editor drive it: content and selection events, commands for buttons, your own items on the phone toolbar, and an XML language service built from a schema.

Aardink goes multiplatform - part 6 of 7

Updates to the Aardink editor v0.6.0

Mon Nov 02 2026

Aardink 0.6.0 adds multi-cursor editing, a minimap, sticky scroll, bracket-pair colours and go to definition on Android, desktop and the web. It is a deliberate API break, with a migration guide.

Aardink goes multiplatform - part 5 of 7

Why the text field had to go

Mon Oct 26 2026

In Aardink 0.5 a keystroke in a 5,000-line file took 3.7 seconds to settle in the browser. Replacing Compose's text field with a renderer that draws only the lines on screen, and an input path of our own, brought that under 10 ms.

Aardink goes multiplatform - part 1 of 7

What Kotlin Multiplatform is, using Aardink as the example

Mon Sep 28 2026

Kotlin Multiplatform shares Kotlin code between Android, the desktop, and the browser, and Compose Multiplatform shares the UI on top of it. Why I picked the pair for my Aardink code editor over .NET MAUI and the other ways to share code, and how they fit together in a real library.

Updates to the Aardink editor v0.4.1

Sat Sep 12 2026

A small follow-up to the 0.4.0 release: the sample app mascot and launcher icon now render from themed vector layers, and the toolchain moves to the latest Kotlin and Compose BOM.