Does anyone have any clues when Compose `1.1.0` will hit `beta` ? It's been on `alpha06` for some ti...

# compose

[darkmoon_uk]

Does anyone have any clues when Compose 1.1.0 will hit beta ?
It's been on alpha06 for some time (see Google Maven repo).
It has critical fixes we need to adopt regarding back button behaviour, and beta status is significant for us.

[Tolriq]

At 99% the 27th 🙂

[Alex]

I once had a talk with a google engineer and he told me that alpha is perfectly fine to use even in production, we are using it and we never had more issues than with what google declared as "stable"

[Mark Murphy]

If you look at other Jetpack libraries and how quickly they move from first alpha to stable, it's quite a range. androidx.work goes through the whole sequence on average in about 4 months; androidx.lifecycle takes about 10 months. And some are longer than that (lookin' at you, androidx.security:security-crypto). So, when I did this analysis a couple of months ago, I estimated Compose would take 6-10 months from first alpha to stable. Note that 1.0.0 took a year to go from first alpha to stable.

I did not attempt to analyze the average time from first alpha to first beta (ignoring RCs and stable). Plus, as Tolriq suggests, Google is big on event-driven development (they like to announce milestones at events). So, a 1.1.0 beta this week for Android Dev Summit seems plausible, if perhaps a bit quick.

[Tolriq]

Well this is more that they have already merged the 1.1 beta https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support/+/7d2d724cf160de3594f438af29be6c2fee715881 so 27th is the most probable date as per the normal release schedule. It may be delayed to the 28th for the talks about Compose / Material You but I doubt.

[Mark Murphy]

oh, well, um, yeah, that would be a fairly positive sign... 😅