Guys I'm having the worse time with compose. Need an opinion. I have a lazy column. With complex ne...

# compose

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

Guys I'm having the worse time with compose. Need an opinion.

I have a lazy column. With complex nested objects.

One of them is a list of cards.
Which has its own inner children.

Problem is. One of these cards has a timer (Simple Text composable) and every time I update it from VM it requests focus and auto scrolls to itself 🤔

Problem is.. I took the same code to another fresh project. Didn't face any issues :)

Difference is in modules probably. New project is 1 and main is mannny

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Are you using the same version of compose in both?

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

Yup.

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

I made sure keys were stable, I even used keys in my inner loops.

I also made sure recomposition is happening at text composable level

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

It's been driving me insane for 2 days lol

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Hm, maybe add a focus listener and put a breakpoint in it, see what's triggering the focus call?

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

Here recomposition is only happpening in the text composable
Yet auto focuses when i scroll past this in one of my cards which has this, and it ticks

@Composable
fun TimerDisplay(startTime: Long) {
var lastDay by remember { mutableIntStateOf(0) }
var lastHour by remember { mutableIntStateOf(0) }
var lastMinute by remember { mutableIntStateOf(0) }
var lastSecond by remember { mutableIntStateOf(0) }
LaunchedEffect(startTime) {
while (isActive) {
val time = startTime.getDaysHoursMinsSecsBetweenTodayAndProvidedDate()
lastDay = time.getOrNull(0)?.toInt() ?: lastDay
lastHour = time.getOrNull(1)?.toInt() ?: lastHour
lastMinute = time.getOrNull(2)?.toInt() ?: lastMinute
lastSecond = time.getOrNull(3)?.toInt() ?: lastSecond
delay(1000L) // Updates every second
}
}
val dayString =
pluralStringResource(
id = R.plurals.line_consumption_day_title_android,
lastDay,
lastDay
)
val hoursString =
stringResource(
id = R.string.uptime_hour_min_sec,
lastHour,
lastMinute,
lastSecond
)
Row(modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth()) {
Text(
text = hoursString,
style = FontManager.defaultTextStyleBold14Sp,
modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth()
)
}
}

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

I did, i added onFocuseChanged{} to everything, + focusable(false)

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

still no luck. it's worth mentioning, this is hosted a fragment, I tried doing it withtout compose view and coardinater but same thing

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

I'll test that thanks

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

what's the stack trace inside the focus listener when this happens?

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

I made it only update every 4 seconds, to catch it scrolling, Break points on focuse changed, don't trigger

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

K Update I don't think there's anything wrong here

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

It must be my host fragment and XML, will update if fixed

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

It was XML related. Compose view parent was a constraint layout, which has also a parent of constraints layout.

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

It mostly affected the ui and looked glitchy if sizes are changing in the compose view suddenly, going over bounds etc.. expanding elements etc..

[Saleh Abdulaziz]

fixed by removing direct parent ^