I was so much hoping for a beta version of the mat...
# compose-wearf
florent
05/21/2025, 9:26 PMI was so much hoping for a beta version of the material 3 compose, I guess it is maybe for next year then 😄
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yschimke
05/22/2025, 6:14 AMA reminder these are production quality used in Google's own apps. And beta means API stable.
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stevebower
05/22/2025, 2:03 PMHi Florent, Wear Compose Material3 is actually included in the 1.5.0-beta01 and 1.5.0-beta02 (during the alpha releases, material3 remained quarantined on 1.0.0-alphaXX, but now that is in beta, it joins the other wear compose libraries on 1.5.0-betaXX).
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florent
05/22/2025, 7:26 PMah so the material3 1.0.0-alphaXX is now dead and replaced by the wear compose material artifact?
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Kseniia Shumelchyk
05/26/2025, 5:56 PMIt's two distinct Jetpack libraries, one for phone and for Wear OS.
As watch UI is optimized for round small screens it makes sense to distribute Wear components separately and this (relatively new) library wear.compose.material3 is in beta (comes as M3 Expressive).
Whilst on phone M3 was available for a while, but M3 Expressive is only in the latest alpha (stable doesn't have an Expressive bit).
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stevebower
05/27/2025, 10:36 AMYeah, the Wear Compose 1.5 beta includes the following libraries: wear.compose.foundation, wear.compose.material, wear.compose.material3 (as well as wear.compose.navigation).
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florent
05/27/2025, 8:34 PMAh ok, could you update https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/wear-compose then to make it clearer? It is kinda impossible to guess that you can now request
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louiscad
05/30/2025, 11:47 AMWill the page linked above be updated?
It's still super confusing, the beta of material3 is hidden.
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Kseniia Shumelchyk
05/30/2025, 6:35 PMYeah, we will make it clearer
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