Should we be using something other than `AppCompatActivity` ? It's what's in the default when creati...

# compose

[Gabriel]

Should we be using something other than AppCompatActivity ? It's what's in the default when creating a new compose

[John O'Reilly]

you should be able to use ComponentActivity now....also, since beta2 I don't believe compose has appcompat dependency any more as well

[Gabriel]

Thanks John 👍

[Sam]

wait so it’s no longer:

class MainActivity: AppCompatActivity() {

where is there an example of the new approach?

[Ian Lake]

AppCompatActivity extends FragmentActivity which extends ComponentActivity. If you don't need AppCompat (i.e. for styling Android Views) and you don't need Fragments (because you're in Compose), then you can use ComponentActivity, which has all of the hooks you need for a Compose only app

[Sam]

Thanks Ian, I swapped ComponentActivity in our pure Compose app and it seems to be working without a hitch!

[Ian Lake]

Remove those dependencies (fragment and appcompat) and you might save half a megabyte in APK size 🙂

[Sam]

just removed appcompat 😻 although i didn’t see any reference to fragment

[Ian Lake]

You were probably just getting it as a transitive dependency of AppCompat then, totally understandable

[itnoles]

you should change the themes too if you dropped appcompat?