AndroidViews inside a LazyColumn recompose and recreates the Views as I scroll. I tried using

remember

to save the AndroidView as follows but it’s still recreating the Views as I scroll up and down. Is there any way to make it more efficient?

@Composable
fun ViewInLazyColumn() {
    LazyColumn {
        items(100) { idx ->
            val context = LocalContext.current

            val view = remember { MyView(context, idx.toString()) }
            AndroidView(factory = { view }) } } }

class MyView(context: Context, value: String) : TextView(context) {
    init {
        // View keeps getting recreated
        println("init MyView $value") 
        text = value } }

I guess what you mean is that there is a new View created every time there is a new item became visible. yes, it is expected, we do not really reuse the items as it was done in RecyclerView, especially the ones which are implemented as Views

But why even when I scroll back to a row I already saw. Why doesn’t the

remember

save the View

only currently visible items are kept composed, the rest are disposed. when disposed everything remembered is lost

Oh! That’s good to know.