I’m curious to hear about some use cases: do you all use `LocalConfiguration.current.screenWidthDp`/...

# compose-android

[Alex Vanyo]

I’m curious to hear about some use cases: do you all use `LocalConfiguration.current.screenWidthDp`/`screenHeightDp` in your projects? And if so, for what sort of purposes?

[Pablichjenkov]

Didn't know it existed. I am taking those from my root composable.onSizeChanged. It is setup to fillMaxSize

[Colton Idle]

Didn't know it existed either lol.
I've seen some projects im on where we have a root BoxWithConstraints though for figuring out width. 😱

wish there was a doc I could point to that was like "please dont do this"

[Pablichjenkov]

I was using before the WindowSizeClass in androidx.compose.material3.windowsizeclass but stop using it, didn’t quite like the API design. It is not multiplatform either, that I remember.

[Pablichjenkov]

My purpose is basically for adaptive design, detecting large/medium/small. But I also use it to position/sizing some elements in the screen based on percentage/ratio to afore mention dimensions.

[yschimke]

For a round screen, understanding the circle size so can position just enough away from the edge to not get clipped on the sides.

[Arun Joseph]

We were using it for some offset calculations before but soon realised issues with systembarsPadding/ navigationBarsPadding and issues with comparing to pixels, then stopped using it. The main use case was getting parent size while in a bottom panel.

[Stylianos Gakis]

We use it to get a WindowSizeClass instance inside our @Previews with this

@Composable
fun WindowSizeClass.Companion.calculateForPreview(): WindowSizeClass {
  val configuration = LocalConfiguration.current
  return calculateFromSize(DpSize(configuration.screenWidthDp.dp, configuration.screenHeightDp.dp))
}

[Alex Vanyo]

@Pablichjenkov you didn’t like the windowsizeclass API, or the LocalConfiguration.current API?

[Pablichjenkov]

The WindowSizeClass
I feel like it is missing information about aspect ratio which is important sometimes.