Why isnt M2 getting new feature updates like date ...

# compose

[myanmarking]

Why isnt M2 getting new feature updates like date dialog and time pickers. It is hard enough to migrate an app to compose. Now, i need to migrate to M3 too because some components do not exist in M2 but do in M3 :0 android dev is hard

[andrew]

For the most part, you can probably copy paste the M3 component and adapt it to M2

[andrew]

Compose is open source, nothing is stopping you to go on to Android code search and find the component to reuse

[myanmarking]

Indeed. I can also use swift to develop android apps, but that wouldnt help me, would it?

[andrew]

All I'm saying, is you have the source code available so you can backport it to material 2

[Stylianos Gakis]

You can use the m3 component but with an adapted m2 color scheme. It's kinda what we've done on our project with a mapping that just looked something like this. https://github.com/HedvigInsurance/android/blob/develop/app/core/design-system/README.md

But after that first step, we're trying to adopt more of the m3 stuff

[andrew]

Instead of forward porting your app to material 3

[andrew]

Or that solution works too, compose gives you a lots of options

[andrew]

The inflexibility here is self-imposed, sometimes app dev requires work in general

[Stylianos Gakis]

But in any way, I agree with Andrew, you got a bunch of options. Can also use a normal view dialog for it, nothing stops that either.

[andrew]

It's just the way it is

[andrew]

Hell, the view system dialog works too!

[andrew]

I completely forgot about that 😝

[andrew]

Or even any other date picker dialog impl would work too

[myanmarking]

Ya, it is using the legacy one already. I just want to get rid of all view stuff oO

[andrew]

Welp, you have options depending on how much elbow grease you put in

[andrew]

Sometimes more effort is going to be required, that's app development in general. The availability of a certain component isn't a reflection of the effort put in by the teams who provide the product, nor of the solution in general 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Christopher Mederos]

The date and time pickers are far from "finished" in Material3 fwiw