an opinionated look at Googles library collection

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Google's Jetpack lists 115 artifacts but many are duplicates, outdated, or poorly categorized; documentation misses subordinate modules and shows legacy libraries that no longer make sense. A demo Compose app actually uses Palette for Palette color extraction from photos (via the photo picker), plus appcompat, activity‑compose, lifecycle and activity result contracts, and it works; Emoji2 exists but Emoji2 uses views so it needs wrapping for Compose. Recommendation: prefer fewer, current modules and enable baseline profiles for startup cost.

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1. 0:00Jetpack introduction
2. 1:52Why Jetpack was introduced
3. 6:31Jetpack's changing role
4. 10:48Jetpack library categories
5. 13:18Duplicated and legacy Jetpack libraries
6. 23:03Niche Jetpack libraries
7. 26:42Demo: Palette library
8. 31:47ComponentActivity pitfalls
9. 34:18Emoji 2 library usage
10. 36:13Summary: Jetpack adoption

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