Does compose look native (look and feel) on iOS, o...

# compose

[Sam Stone]

Does compose look native (look and feel) on iOS, or like material design?

[jw]

Compose UI is material

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

If you use Material components from the Material Compose module, it will look indeed Material

[Sam Stone]

Is there no popular way to make it look and feel native, or people have surrendered to the compromise that a cross-platform solution brings (none provide a truly native look and feel)?

[zsperske]

you could use redwood? https://github.com/cashapp/redwood

write shared composables plus native implementations to get exactly the look and feel you want

[zsperske]

(it, like all the non-android Compose libraries are experimental)

[Michael Paus]

There is also this interesting theme library for Compose https://github.com/Chozzle/compose-macos-theme but it hasn’t been updated for quite a while. Would be nice if that could be revamped.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Depends on how you define a “truly” native look-and-feel. Unless you swap in the native widgets under the hood, like Redwood seems to do (correct me if I’m wrong, @zsperske), you will not get the full alignment with the native “born” apps.