Does anyone know whether Compose for Android TV is...

# compose-android

[Tom De Decker]

Does anyone know whether Compose for Android TV is still actively being developed? The last alpha version seems to have been released in early October while the releases before that came somewhat regularly. I just hope that it doesn't end up being left unsupported like what happened with Leanback 🫤

[Mark Murphy]

Agreed, though IMHO a lot of the value with TV Compose is in the focus management. https://alexzaitsev.substack.com/p/focus-as-a-state-new-effective-tv outlines a better focus approach, designed to make it easier to use regular Compose UI for a TV app.

(as seen in issue 209 of my newsletter, FWIW)

[Ben Trengrove [G]]

I'm not on the TV team so can't speak for their release strategy, but it is still very actively being developed. You can see all the commits here

https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:tv/tv-foundation/;bpv=1
https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:tv/tv-material/;bpv=1

[Tom De Decker]

Glad to hear it, thank you!

[Hristijan]

I wish there were also news about AndroidX Bluetooth, that kinda died too, it’s just that we were eagerly waiting for a coroutines based implementation of the bluetooth stack as i’ve noticed that the initiative was in that direction.