Android Jetpack Library - Android KTX

The Android Jetpack Library brings the existing Support Library and Architecture Components, and arranges them together into these four categories: Architecture, UI, Foundation, and Background.
And it comes with five new components:
-WorkManager alpha release
-Navigation alpha release
-Paging stable release
-Slices alpha release
-Android KTX (Kotlin Extensions) alpha release

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1. +OlayinkaPeterOluwafemi @olayinkapeter_ Android Jetpack Library Android KTX and Navigation
2. -Support Library To solve the difficulty with backwards compatibility in Android development
3. -Support Library To solve the difficulty with backwards compatibility in Android development -Architecture Components To help manage application as data changes
5. Android Jetpack comes with five new components: • WorkManager alpha release • Navigation alpha release • Paging stable release • Slices alpha release • Android KTX (Kotlin Extensions) alpha release
6. WorkManager - Easily specify deferrable, asynchronous tasks and when they should run.
7. Navigation - Handles Fragment complexities and Navigation, provides helpers for connecting Navigation into the appropriate UI widgets, and allows one to see and manage navigation properties visually.
8. Paging - Makes it easy to load and present large data sets with fast, infinite scrolling in your RecyclerView.
9. Slices - Surfaces an app's UI inside of the Google Assistant as a result of a search.
10. Android KTX - Advantage of Kotlin language features that make development more productive. Android KTX lets you transform Kotlin code like this: Into code like this:
11. Question What will you build with the Android Jetpack Library?