Hello, I want to add drag and drop to compose and ...

# compose-ios

[Rene Gens]

Hello, I want to add drag and drop to compose and I think iOS is missing the platform implementation of actual class DragAndDropTransferData is this correct?

[Elijah Semyonov]

That’s right. Drag-n-drop on iOS is postponed due to its requirements to break existing common API.

[Elijah Semyonov]

But it’s implemented and functioning already, so no worries 🙂

[Rene Gens]

Thanks for getting back to me, is there an ETA or an alpha I can use?

[Elijah Semyonov]

Afaik, not earlier than 1.8, no alpha due to breaking API.

[Rene Gens]

Do you know the state for Desktop? Here it says there is an initial support but it seems to drag and drop between windows, not from one lazy list to another.

[Elijah Semyonov]

cc @Alexander Maryanovsky

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Drag-and-drop is an overloaded term, unfortunately. It can mean just the basic gesture of dragging and dropping something, or the feature where you can transfer data between applications by using the gesture. The PR you linked, and the corresponding API is about the latter.
Of course you can use it to transfer data inside your app too, but it’s fairly limited for that purpose.

[Rene Gens]

Thank you for your time, I appreciate it. You are right, let me reformulate the question, I am looking for drag and drop support between lazy lists, what is the status of this on Desktop, will it arrive with iOS or is it in the backlog?

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

There’s no such feature planned. You can implement it yourself with a bit of work, though.

[Elijah Semyonov]

I think I’ve seen some libraries doing this specifically

[Elijah Semyonov]

No special platform API is needed for that indeed

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

The gesture detector is already implemented and working, but showing the object while it’s being dragged, and “receiving” it on the other end is up to you.

[Rene Gens]

Yes there is a library -> https://github.com/MohamedRejeb/compose-dnd .