Five new-to-us artifacts this week, with Material3 Ripple getting multiplatform’d:
androidx.compose.material3:material3-ripple
androidx.compose.material3:material3-ripple-android
androidx.compose.material3:material3-ripple-jvmstubs
androidx.compose.material3:material3-ripple-linuxx64stubs
androidx.work:work-analytics
However, otherwise, it was a fairly quiet release, with just shy of 200 artifact updates. It must be summer! (Northern Hemisphere edition)
—Jul 15, 2026
Media3 is up to 1.11.0-beta01:
androidx.gradle:gradle-version-catalog:2026.07.00
androidx.gradle:gradle-version-catalog-alpha:2026.07.00
androidx.gradle:gradle-version-catalog-beta:2026.07.00
androidx.media3:media3-cast:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-common:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-common-ktx:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-container:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-database:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource-cronet:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource-ktor:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource-okhttp:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource-rtmp:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-decoder:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-effect:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-effect-lottie:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-dash:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-hls:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-ima:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-midi:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-rtsp:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-smoothstreaming:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-workmanager:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-extractor:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-inspector:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-inspector-frame:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-muxer:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-session:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-test-utils:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-test-utils-robolectric:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-transformer:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-ui:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-ui-compose:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-ui-compose-material3:1.11.0-beta01
androidx.media3:media3-ui-leanback:1.11.0-beta01
—Jul 08, 2026
The only new brand-new artifacts this week are androidx.pdf:pdf-core and androidx.pdf:pdf-ocr-play-services. The latter is described as “ML Kit implementation of OCR for PDF viewer”. pdf-core is “Provides the core abstractions and foundational logic for AndroidX PDF”, suggesting that a wee bit of refactoring is going on.
The full roundup of 700+ updated artifacts can be found here!
—Jul 01, 2026
Media3 now has Ktor support, courtesy of a new androidx.media3:media3-datasource-ktor library.
Overall, this is what we got in the past week:
androidx.gradle:gradle-version-catalog:2026.06.01
androidx.gradle:gradle-version-catalog-alpha:2026.06.01
androidx.gradle:gradle-version-catalog-beta:2026.06.01
androidx.media3:media3-cast:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-common:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-common-ktx:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-container:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-database:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource-cronet:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource-ktor:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource-okhttp:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-datasource-rtmp:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-decoder:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-effect:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-effect-lottie:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-dash:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-hls:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-ima:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-midi:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-rtsp:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-smoothstreaming:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-workmanager:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-extractor:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-inspector:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-inspector-frame:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-muxer:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-session:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-test-utils:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-test-utils-robolectric:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-transformer:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-ui:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-ui-compose:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-ui-compose-material3:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.media3:media3-ui-leanback:1.11.0-alpha01
androidx.tracing:tracing:2.0.0-alpha09
androidx.tracing:tracing-android:2.0.0-alpha09
androidx.tracing:tracing-desktop:2.0.0-alpha09
androidx.tracing:tracing-ktx:2.0.0-alpha09
androidx.tracing:tracing-wire:2.0.0-alpha09
androidx.tracing:tracing-wire-android:2.0.0-alpha09
androidx.tracing:tracing-wire-desktop:2.0.0-alpha09
—Jun 24, 2026
Hey, remember when I wrote about
a bunch of GitHub repositories distributing malware?
It turns out there were a lot more, since I was only looking in Compose-related repositories. Like, 10,000 or so repositories exhibiting the same pattern that I pointed out in December. 😮
Hopefully, this will get a bit more attention and will result in GitHub actually doing something to stop these attacks.
—Jun 21, 2026