WorkManager 2.11.0 raises the minSdk from 21 to 23. That change meant that the team could remove 3,739 lines of code and the AlarmManager based scheduler used to support older versions of Android. Welcome to a leaner WorkManager!
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/work#2.11.0
Compose Material3 Adaptive reached their 1.2.0 stable release this week with two new layout strategies - reflow and levitate.
Check out their blog post from their beta release for more details!
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/unfold-new-possibilities-with-compose-adaptive-layouts-1-2-beta.html
Navigation3 reaches API stability this week with the 1.0.0-beta01 release! There's a few important bug fixes in this release as well, but this beta means we're only a few weeks away from rc01 and then stable!
If you run into any issues, please let us know ASAP so we can make sure fixes make it into the 1.0 release.
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/navigation3#1.0.0-beta01
DataStore 1.2.0-beta01 is out, bringing API stability to DataStore's support for Direct Boot mode and GuavaDataStore.
Note that this release also includes an important fix to DataStore's proguard rules if you aren't using the android-proguard-optimize.txt file (which you definitely should be)!
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/datastore#1.2.0-beta01
Activity 1.12.0-beta01 is out with a behavior change on how system back is handled - the Lifecycle aware OnBackPressed APIs now enable/disable callbacks rather than register/unregister them, ensuring a more consistent ordering.
Let us know if you are impacted! There's an experimental flag to opt out, but we'll be removing that in a future release.
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/activity#1.12.0-beta01
There were a lot of other releases this week including Camera 1.6.0-alpha01 (new infrastructure, CameraPresenceListener), Media3 1.9.0-alpha01 (CompositionPlayer, media3-inspector), and PDF 1.0.0-alpha11 (custom selection menu items) and more.
So make sure to read through all of the release notes for the details:
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/versions/all-channel#october_22_2025
@bladecoder - Navigation3 does not depend on Compose 1.10 anymore.
It only depended on Compose 1.10 up until Compose Runtime 1.9.2 came out as that was the release that added KMP support to Compose Runtime Saveable.
Marcello Galhardo
Ian Lake
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