When creating a Compose Multiplatform Project and ...

# compose

[Vaibhav Jaiswal]

When creating a Compose Multiplatform Project and using Material 3
Which dependencies, do i need to add,
compose.material3 only, or compose.runtime, compose.foundation etc etc too

[Joel Denke]

I think if I remember correct, those takes transitive deps automatic, but correct me if I am wrong here 🙂
Because they sharing same androidx package names it will be resolved automatic I think.

[Vaibhav Jaiswal]

I need Material3, Material Icons and all basic compose stuff, like Rows, modifiers, states etc

Does Material3 has transitive dependency on runtime and foundation?

[Pablichjenkov]

Sometimes compose.ui too

[Joel Denke]

Right, yeah Row, States etc not part of the Material libs. So then need to add compose.ui, compose.foundation and compose.ui 🙂

[Pablichjenkov]

On foundation I believe

[Vaibhav Jaiswal]

its quite confusing, should i add all foundation, runtime and ui , or using ui include both, what all material includes
Should be mentioned somewhere

[Joel Denke]

So code inside Material has its own resolved things, where not neccessarily same compossable source code youre using in your project, depedning how resolve hthe libraries 😛

[Pablichjenkov]

The stack from bottom to top is:
1 runtime
2 ui
3 foundation
4 material

[Joel Denke]

Imagine you only using Button composable from M3 library, and NOTHING from foundation yourself, then I think only need material 🙂 But in almost all cases need foundation and runtime, so good adding them as well.

[Pablichjenkov]

I add them explicitly all the time

[Joel Denke]

https://androidx.tech/artifacts/compose.material3/material3-android/1.2.0
You can see here as of example which deps it has 🙂

[Joel Denke]

Just keep in mind this is for Android target, so different in CMP kind a 🙂

[Vaibhav Jaiswal]

I think safest is to add all , ui, runtime, foundation explicitly

[Joel Denke]

@Pablichjenkov Yes me too, just not neccessarly needed but in most cases you probably want it 😛

[Joel Denke]

Also dont forget compose.materialIconsExtended, if using icons as I think mentioned 🙂

[Vaibhav Jaiswal]

Docs should explain this, there are animation and animationGraphics too, now its included in ui or not?
Though i can access Animatable without it

[Joel Denke]

But yeah I totally agree should be more clear in documenation when to use what, and how Jetbrains resolve all these deps based on platform. Like iOS not getting same implementation as Android getting for same class/methods. Especially if override the versions yourself in Gradle can be very tricky.

[Pablichjenkov]

Yes not needed but just for safety. I recall a bug in js target I believe, where you had to explicitly import it