An absurdly long URL

DaveTheCoder · May 9, 2024

In an online Android Studio course I'm taking (Android Basics with Compose), I came across this link:

https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/material3/package-summary#TopAppBar(kotlin.Function0,androidx.compose.ui.Modifier,kotlin.Function0,kotlin.Function1,androidx.compose.foundation.layout.WindowInsets,androidx.compose.material3.TopAppBarColors,androidx.compose.material3.TopAppBarScrollBehavior)

It was provided as a reference for TopAppBar.

Megalomaniak · May 9, 2024

Sometimes it do be like that. Blame googol

trizZzle · May 10, 2024

Does Chrome not jump to anchors when coming from a different site (your link here)? If I paste it in a manually opened tab it works.

They especially put a copy link button above the section to get a nice link. Did the course creator really put this link in the course material?
What purpose do the additional keywords have? For search engines?

DaveTheCoder · May 10, 2024

Here's the page that has that link. It's near the beginning, with text TopAppBar. This link is just as long:

https://developer.android.com/codelabs/basic-android-kotlin-compose-material-theming?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.android.com%2Fcourses%2Fpathways%2Fandroid-basics-compose-unit-3-pathway-3%23codelab-https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.android.com%2Fcodelabs%2Fbasic-android-kotlin-compose-material-theming#6

I suspect they use some kind of redirection system for handling links so that they stay up to date. Doing that manually would be a nightmare. Maybe that's why they're so long.