Any plans to hook up `Surface` to Compose? Would b...

# compose

[tad]

Any plans to hook up Surface to Compose? Would be useful for, say, camerax.

[romainguy]

You mean SurfaceView? Not the Material Design Surface

[tad]

Yes.

[romainguy]

Currently you should use SurfaceView 🙂

[tad]

Hah, I know.

[romainguy]

More precisely, this is something I’d like to see eventually but this is not a priority because SurfaceView and TextureView work for those specific cases (which are fairly uncommon compared to all the other components)

[tad]

An abstraction over "platform-specific hardware-backed display buffer" would be useful for desktop as well.

[tad]

or more accurately, "opaque display buffer"

[romainguy]

Agreed

[romainguy]

(although it quickly gets messy on desktop, esp. Linux)

[tad]

Wayland makes it nicer with EGL buffers, but yeah

[romainguy]

I’m mad at Wayland right now 🙂

[romainguy]

(also it doesn’t help because the user may or may not use Wayland)

[tad]

Everyone's mad at Wayland right now... I rather enjoy it myself.

[romainguy]

I’m mad at it because it doesn’t implement EGL properly