Hey there, I am new to the world of Android development. Starting with Jetpack compose. so skipping ...

# android

[Tamal Anwar Chowdhury]

Hey there, I am new to the world of Android development. Starting with Jetpack compose. so skipping the XML completely. Wish me luck.

[Frank Bouwens]

Good luck!

[katz]

XML is alegacy... hope they anonce smth like compose first on next IO

[Pedro Romano Barbosa]

What is compose first ?

[Frank Bouwens]

In my view;
Compose first would be when Google will:
• Recommend using Compose over Views (already happening?)
• Won’t add new features to Views, just keep them around for legacy apps / legacy reasons
• Won’t recommend new developers learn Views
• Make Compose Stable and performant. (Lot’s of Material 3 Composables require you to annotate with “Experimental”)
• All Google-created libraries will support Compose, and won’t require you to use Views.
(For example, Google Maps map as Composable instead of MapView; Google Ads as Composable instead of View)
• Thereby they won’t be “cheating” by using an AndroidView https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/migrate/interoperability-apis/views-in-compose
• They will mention these facts at Google I/O, Blogs and documentation
Bonus:
• They will put more effort in the Multiplatform efforts of Compose, seems that JetBrains is mostly working on that.
• They will add/improve documentation (/code), about integrating certain API’s with Compose.
( For example, LiveData doesn’t integrate well with Compose/ViewModel, due to other LifeCycle )

[Frank Bouwens]

They did already make huge efforts towards making it Compose first .

[Frank Bouwens]

These would be, among others:
• Compose UI Previews in Android Studio
• Providing lots of documentation, blogs, video’s, example code, tutorials and code-labs
• Efforts to making Compose more stable and performant
• Making sure Compose integrates with latest Material Design
• Making sure most commonly used Views have a Compose alternative.

[katz]

Agree, and from what i see it's going to be at some point
• google removing views-related lessons and replace em with compose
• they add multiplatform supportf for most of libs (recent they add lifecycle-multiplatform)

[Konstantin]

There are still places which require xml/views and compose in those places doesn't seem feasible.
Custom notifications layout (although they may deprecate them I guess);
RemoteViews for widgets (can be wrapped with a bit different compose framework)
Splash screen (not a view exactly)

[Frank Bouwens]

Right, for Widgets, you still need to use RemoteViews;
Yes you can use Compose, using Glance, but in the back, that will still output RemoteViews.
This is needed for legacy / compatibility reasons. Views will be here for a while, due to compatibilty.