I’m looking for a charting library and found Vico and Jetbrains Lets-Plot. I like ‘gg’ style APIs so...

# compose-android

[alexhelder]

I’m looking for a charting library and found Vico and Jetbrains Lets-Plot. I like ‘gg’ style APIs so Lets Plot was looking great … but the dependencies are giving me pause (skia, skika, etc). I’m more concerned that it depends on compose multiplatform, and this app will be android only (using jetpack compose). If I use this library, what are the material impacts compose multiplatform would have as a dependency, would I need to use that for the whole app vs jetpack compose, etc

[Igor Alshannikov]

Not necessarily multiplatform. When targeting Android, it depends on skiko-android and Android-specific or maybe just JVM (not sure here) compose artifacts: https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-compose-demos/blob/1120946fcfdf20800e192215edbe0e30d174bfa9/compose-android-min/build.gradle.kts#L105

Another option is to use Kotlin/JS and lets-plot in WebView.

[alexhelder]

Thank you Igor. I swapped out compose-multiplatform with latest jetpack compose, AGP 8.5.0 and Kotlin 2.0.0 and everything worked. When I bumped skiko.version in `gradle.properties`to 0.8.10 i got

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lorg/jetbrains/letsPlot/skia/view/SvgSkikoView;`

It might be nice if the project also had a branch for jetpack compose to ensure that still works as well

[alexhelder]

BTW, is there a lets-plot channel … if this isn’t the right place?

[Igor Alshannikov]

There is no such channel but fill free to post to issues/discussions at Github: https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot or https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-skia

As for Skiko version, the highest supported is v.0.7.92 (see https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-skia?tab=readme-ov-file#dependencies) , also notes here https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-skia/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#changed

In a nutshell there is a blocking issue in Skiko: https://github.com/JetBrains/skiko/issues/761

[Igor Alshannikov]

Hi @alexhelder , good news! In v3.0.0, the Android part is no longer dependent on Skiko/Skia. Check this out: https://github.com/JetBrains/lets-plot-compose/releases/tag/v3.0.0