Hello! Has there been any experiments in bringing ...

# compose-android

[louiscad]

Hello!
Has there been any experiments in bringing Compose runtime, and kotlinx.coroutines, to the androidNative targets (NDK)?

I was thinking it could be interesting to try some things in the NDK with compose runtime, be it for game development, or not.

[jw]

Coroutines already supports it

[jw]

For Compose it just takes a quick PR that you can make

[jw]

I just added Linux ARM the other day to Compose runtime

[louiscad]

kotlinx.coroutines don't have Dispatchers.Main for android native though

[jw]

For a game you're probably on a dedicated thread for GL

[jw]

Main is still probably useful to eventually have for calling up into managed code, but it's not blocking (heh)

[louiscad]

I just added Linux ARM the other day to Compose runtime

Can you link it?
Didn't find the linuxArm64 target on GitHub nor cs.android.com for Compose runtime

[louiscad]

I think the main thread for android native is the same as for android, but you don't have the same APIs to dispatch to it, right?

[jw]

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-core/pull/977

[louiscad]

Wait, there's Compose runtime for watchOS!

[louiscad]

That's cool, even though I don't have immediate plans for anything watchOS

[jw]

We've been pushing for all targets for quite some time. The ones that are there now (with the exception of linux arm that I just added) were the ones supported by old coroutines. Now, however, coroutines has all targets available, and so Compose can too. Someone just has to send the PR