Hey guys,, Just wanted to know about the inspiration of creating Jetpack Compose UI toolkit? Whether...

# compose

[Chintan Soni]

Hey guys,, Just wanted to know about the inspiration of creating Jetpack Compose UI toolkit? Whether they were:
• Haunted by android View class (~15k lines of code)
• Missing the flavour of Declarative UI Programming. Though they were too late to the party, as if we look at Web UI frameworks, ReactJS already adopted this back in 2013.
• something else?

[romainguy]

Many reasons and we explained them in various presentations. For instance

https://youtu.be/VsStyq4Lzxo▾

[romainguy]

But in summary: we wanted to make things easier for app developers