Would there be any significant benefits (other tha...

# compose

[eygraber]

Would there be any significant benefits (other than developer ergonomics) to having a hardware rendering system native to compose like SurfaceView, and if so, are there any eventual plans to provide this?

[romainguy]

There's AndroidExternalSurface

[romainguy]

It gives you the developer ergonomics

[eygraber]

So would a theoretical future version of e.g. camerax for compose use AndroidExternalSurface, or is the perpetual plan for things like that to wrap an AndroidView?

[eygraber]

Oh I see it is an AndroidView 😅

[romainguy]

It doesn't really matter yeah

[romainguy]

Compose is a giant View anyway :) (and sometimes multiple views)

[Dmitri Sh]

@romainguy Compose is a giant View? what does that mean?

[romainguy]

Exactly that. Compose attaches to a window via a regular View (a ComposeView). It's also what enables full interop between both systems

[Dmitri Sh]

ok ! 😉