Naming question for Compose: we all know that Comp...

# naming

[Robert Williams]

Naming question for Compose: we all know that Components should be small, reusable and single-purpose and Screens should be the top-level entry point which mostly just sticks Components together. But do we have a convention in-between for sub-screens which might just be a few Components and are related enough to extract to a (private) function but neither full Screens nor reusable. Example would be an Empty state for a List which is just Image + a few Texts. My first thought was that this would also be a Screen but not sure how strictly we should interpret that definition of Screen (can't find any docs from Google that clarify this)

[CLOVIS]

What names are you considering? Why not name it just after what it does?

[Robert Williams]

It really doesn't do anything though. Here's a simplified example to show what I mean

@Composable
fun MyBasketScreen(items: List<BasketItem>) {
  if (items.isEmpty()) {
    WhatToCallThis()
  else {
    LazyColumn(items) {
       ...
    }
  }
}

@Composable
private fun WhatToCallThis() {
  Column {
    Image(myEmptyImage)
    Text("No items in basket")
    Text("Click the button to add items to basket")
  }
}

[Robert Williams]

All the ideas I had are either too generic or too implementation-specific
• MyBasketEmptyScreen
• MyBasketEmptyView
• MyBasketEmptyText
• MyBasketEmptyMessage
• MyBasketEmptyContent
• MyBasketEmptyDescription
• MyBasketEmptyLayout
• MyBasketEmptyComponentGroup

[Robert Williams]

Maybe I'm thinking about the problem the wrong way 🤔

[CLOVIS]

what about… MyBasketEmpty ?

[CLOVIS]

other than that, MyBasketEmptyContent seems clear to me

[bod]

or even just EmptyContent since it's private

[Robert Williams]

Yeah, not really sure about not having any Suffix. Fine with Content since it’s used quite a bit in Compose API even though it’s fairly meaningless

[Robert Williams]

Thanks all