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21 October 2026 Artifact Wave

We got a few new artifacts this time around:

androidx.compose.remote:remote-creation-expression
androidx.photopicker:photopicker-activity
androidx.photopicker:photopicker-embedded
androidx.photopicker:photopicker-embedded-compose
androidx.photopicker:photopicker-embedded-testing

Those are part of the 800+ artifact updates this time around!

—Oct 21, 2026

14 October 2026 Artifact Wave

We have a new artifact group, androidx.annotation.keep, containing some plugins and multiplatform libraries:

androidx.annotation.keep:androidx.annotation.keep.gradle.plugin:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-android:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-gradle-plugin:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-iosarm64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-iossimulatorarm64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-jvm:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-linuxarm64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-linuxx64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-macosarm64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-mingwx64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-tvosarm64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-tvossimulatorarm64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-watchosarm32:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-watchosarm64:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.annotation.keep:keep-watchosdevicearm64:1.0.0-alpha01

We also got over 150 other artifact updates, including a DataStore RC and patch releases for Paging and Tracing.

—Oct 14, 2026

7 October 2026 Artifact Wave

No new-to-us artifacts or artifact groups this wave. But, we did get over 400 new artifact versions, including the first beta of Compose 1.13 and a stable navigationevent release!

—Oct 07, 2026

23 September 2026 Artifact Wave

We have a two new artifact groups, androidx.a2ui and androidx.a2ui.compose, which contain Google’s first official implementation of A2UI for Compose. There are a handful of artifacts in those groups:

androidx.a2ui:a2ui-engine:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.a2ui:a2ui-model:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.a2ui.compose:compose-runtime:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.a2ui.compose:compose-ui:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.a2ui.compose:compose-ui-testing:1.0.0-alpha01

Also, androidx.compose.material3:material3-a2ui is a new artifact, also presumably tied to A2UI.

(FWIW, I wrote a bit about A2UI for Compose over on my Pedal Assist Coding newsletter)

There is also a new androidx.test.backup group with two artifacts:

androidx.test.backup:backup:1.0.0-alpha01
androidx.test.backup:backup-host:1.0.0-alpha01

Soon, there should be a androidx.transition:transition-ktx:1.7.2 artifact release. That release seems to have been incomplete, as the POM file is missing.

In addition, we got over 500 new artifact versions this wave!

—Sep 23, 2026