Also how do we compile the compose-UI to swift for...
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Brahh
05/21/2025, 10:30 AMAlso how do we compile the compose-UI to swift for eg, and still look like a native app and feel like a native app and all the sliders and buttons, everything?
Do we compile to Swift UI under the hood?
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Youssef Shoaib [MOD]
05/21/2025, 10:32 AMNo. Compose for iOS works pretty well to "match" the underlying style of the platform.
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Eugen Martynov
05/21/2025, 2:18 PMThere is #C3PQML5NU channel
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Chrimaeon
05/21/2025, 3:25 PMan #CJLTWPH7S and #C0346LWVBJ4
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Brahh
05/21/2025, 7:24 PMso compose just has a different UI style on ios but its still not swift-ui?
how does that compilation work?
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Youssef Shoaib [MOD]
05/21/2025, 7:29 PMIt draws into a canvas on screen basically, to my understanding at least. It does have integrations with Swift UI
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Chrimaeon
05/21/2025, 7:29 PMHigh level view: compose comes with its own rendering engine and draws on a canvas.
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Brahh
05/21/2025, 7:42 PMthats what flutter does, but flutter is slow and on ios the styles look like android material lol.
how is kmp being more performant than flutter?
We have a "canvas" on android also? that's surprising.
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Chrimaeon
05/21/2025, 7:44 PMFlutter is slow(er) because it need dart engine to run. Kotlin in the end is still compiled down to the native code.
Chrimaeon
05/21/2025, 7:45 PMIn Android it’s the same „canvas“ the old view system renders on.
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Youssef Shoaib [MOD]
05/21/2025, 7:46 PMThe styles for Compose are specifically made to match the platform. Flutter just took a different approach to styling, that's all.
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Chrimaeon
05/21/2025, 7:48 PMNo. Compose is not made to match a platform. Without styling or an appropriate library a button on iOS and on Android will look the same. It‘s not that on iOS it will automatically look like an iOS button.
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Brahh
05/21/2025, 7:49 PMso flutter is more like a game engine than a framework? dart engine is a VM?
Brahh
05/21/2025, 7:49 PM@Chrimaeon
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Youssef Shoaib [MOD]
05/21/2025, 7:50 PMhttps://www.jetbrains.com/compose-multiplatform/ Seems to suggest that styling matches the platform 🤷🏼 I haven't used it enough though to know, so I may be very incorrect.
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Chrimaeon
05/21/2025, 7:51 PMNo, it does not.
Let me find the samples repo.
Chrimaeon
05/21/2025, 7:53 PMhttps://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/tree/master
Check the screenshots. Android, iOS, desktop, etc look all the same.
Chrimaeon
05/21/2025, 7:54 PM@Brahh I would not say game engine but yes dart is run on the device.