Teaching Compose to designers. Do we have a drag/d...
# composea
Ash
09/09/2021, 10:33 PMTeaching Compose to designers. Do we have a drag/drop tool -/- GUI UI builders for Compose?
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Ash
09/09/2021, 10:34 PMWe are working in AS / XCode Previews right now but would love a more graphical tool.
Ash
09/09/2021, 10:36 PMI thought we had a tool on the web but can not find it now ...
Ash
09/09/2021, 10:38 PMThey are doing great with Compose(Kotlin) and SwiftUI(Swift) - just would be nice to have a fully GUI based tool as a another tool in war chest
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Kirill Grouchnikov
09/09/2021, 11:23 PMIn a more traditional toolkit, you maybe have couple dozen things that you can drop onto the canvas (buttons, checkboxes, panels, etc). In a larger compose codebase this can quickly go into hundreds
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Ash
09/09/2021, 11:25 PMwhy? You drop a button and then set the modifiers. It is not much diff than what we do now ... "maybe have couple dozen things that you can drop onto the canvas (buttons, checkboxes, panels, etc)." -- and set the modifiers. Just the output now is Kotlin or Swift code
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Kirill Grouchnikov
09/09/2021, 11:53 PMCompose approach is quite different, heavily encouraging building an hierarchy of smaller, reusable "things"
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Ash
09/10/2021, 12:15 AMnot true. most UI systems "heavily encouraging building an hierarchy of smaller, reusable "things". That is just good design
https://medium.com/babylon-engineering/android-implementation-of-a-design-system-19c3fdf50bbb
Ash
09/10/2021, 1:07 AMSomething like this for Compose.
https://detailspro.app/ "You can design interfaces, widgets, screens, and anything you dream up with our drag-and-drop interface—all in real SwiftUI."
Not advocating for these tools. Believe code is the best design tool. Just wondering if we have something like DetailsPro for Compose?
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rsktash
09/10/2021, 2:13 AMIt is used only by juniors
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Ash
09/10/2021, 5:52 AMWhy? It's another tool that helps build apps. Would not be surprised if the Android team release a tool like DetailsPro for Compose.
So people who use powerful tools are juniors ... This sounds more judgmental than helpful.
Ash
09/10/2021, 4:57 PMKeep asking Compose team about tooling and happy with what they have done so far
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/tooling
but really miss constraint layout
https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout
and motion layout tools
https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout/motionlayout
Interesting what they are doing with JSON.
Someone in the community shared a web GUI tool for Compose UI design but my Slack skill suck and can not find it 🤷🏽... If you could 🙏🏽 share it again ...
Ash
10/28/2021, 1:16 AMSo much for it's a bad idea or will not work!
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