Any news on writing widgets in Compose?
# composee
enighma
09/27/2021, 6:09 PMAny news on writing widgets in Compose?
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ian.shaun.thomas
09/27/2021, 6:11 PMLike Android home screen widgets? (remoteviews)
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adjpd
09/27/2021, 6:12 PMjetc.dev's newsletter has a little on it https://jetc.dev/
adjpd
09/27/2021, 6:13 PMIt's called
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ian.shaun.thomas
09/27/2021, 6:17 PMGlancing, pun intended, at this: worth calling out that while they appear to be adding intentional support to render compose to widget that this is limited to how widgets work meaning it's remoteviews and you're basically rendering a bitmap and handing it off and waiting for events like a timer or a resize event to trigger an update
ian.shaun.thomas
09/27/2021, 6:17 PMnot overwhelmingly useful but a nice to have
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adjpd
09/27/2021, 6:19 PMWhy isn't it overwhelmingly useful?
adjpd
09/27/2021, 6:20 PMFrom what I understand this will give you want you're already able to do but now via Compose?
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ian.shaun.thomas
09/27/2021, 6:23 PMBecause widgets are inherently rather simple and do not benefit from a vast majority of the overall compose feature set such as animation, rendering performance, state management, etc
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adjpd
09/27/2021, 6:27 PMBut it's useful if you want to write widgets in Compose, surely?
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ian.shaun.thomas
09/27/2021, 6:29 PMsounds like a nice to have then 😉
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adjpd
09/27/2021, 6:31 PMAnything that gets me away from the horror of XML and usual Android development is gratefully received.
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enighma
09/27/2021, 7:08 PMDealing with remote views and XML is pure pain so anything to make that simpler is welcomed :)
enighma
09/27/2021, 7:16 PMAwesome that link is what I wanted to see :)
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