I’m having a

SurfaceView

like this. It’s seems like

Modifier.alpha

do not have any affect. The view is a video frame rendered by

MediaCodec

so every time the surface is destroyed I release the

MediaCode

so I don’t want it to be destroyed and recreated unless i’m done with it. How can I hide it on condition?

AndroidView(
    factory = {
        view.holder.addCallback(surfaceCallback)
        view
    },
    modifier = Modifier
        .alpha(if (condition) 1f else 0f)
        .matchParentSize(),
)

SurfaceView

is weird one because it does not really draw on regular canvas, that's why alpha has no effect. I wonder if setting

SurfaceView

to

View.INVISIBLE

will have any effect here?

Maybe track your SurfaceView separately, manage its lifecycle on your own, and conditionally show the AndroidView

Setting to

View.INVISIBLE

resulted in the underlying surface recreated which I don’t want….