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Hi all! I had a pretty rough path trying to convert my Flutter app to KMP. I'm not there yet, but will get there.
One of the things that annoyed me is that with Flutter everything looked pretty nice out of the box - UI, animations, icons, typography. In KMP I don't have that experience yet. It doesn't feel like there's a lot element/boilerplate to use and my initial app looked like it's from 1994. Even though I tried to use compose multiplatform.

Anyone can share some tips on how to get my UI slick and fancy in KMP with relative ease?

I would suggest learning and practicing Compose better, read a lot of code examples and app screens made in compose, many of them you can find on in slack, for example I like this one: <https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1602736968482600|https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1602736968482600>

The issue you see is that Flutter is tightly coupled to a design system - be it `Material` or `Cupertino` . In Compose you have the freedom to use whatever you like. There are some design libraries out there. One of those is <https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/designsystems/material3|Material 3> from Google. It’s also available for CMP.

Also there is <#CJLTWPH7S|> for CMP related questions.