Hey, sorry if this has been asked before, but is t...
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caelum19
10/19/2020, 4:13 PMHey, sorry if this has been asked before, but is there plans for some easier way to share Composables? Creating a project just for that Composable and submitting it to jitpack, and then sticking it on your github for anyone lucky enough to stumble upon it isn't ideal. Now that Composables are so reusable and detached, something like a Composable marketplace for easier sharing, discovery, using and updating would be really cool
caelum19
10/19/2020, 4:14 PMPerhaps an AS plugin that modifies the build.gradle? Or something more detached from Android and Gradle
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Vinay Gaba
10/19/2020, 4:34 PMsomething like a Composable marketplace for easier sharing, discoveryThis is something that I’ve been working on and will be launching in a couple days. It’s not doing everything that you listed but covers the discoverability aspect. Here’s a work in progress version with mock data. Still needs cleaning up but as an MVP this is close - https://jetpackcompose.app/wip
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/19/2020, 4:38 PMI was just thinking about that this weekend too lol. It would be neat to be able to share code as a gist with something like kscript annotations for dependencies, and then bring in that gist as a maven dep.
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Vinay Gaba
10/19/2020, 4:40 PMYeah something along the lines of “Lightweight Jitpack” would be super useful. Not just for Compose but for any piece of code that doesn’t deserve to be a library but still is useful.
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caelum19
10/19/2020, 5:19 PMIs there a case of a reusable Composable that needs dependencies other than Compose?
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Vinay Gaba
10/19/2020, 5:28 PMI was just thinking that maybe we should constraint it to Compose so that those dependencies can be pre-added to whatever tool is built. I think that is a totally reasonable thing to do!
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/19/2020, 5:28 PMThere are multiple Compose dependencies – not all “mini-libraries” might need Material, for example.
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Vinay Gaba
10/19/2020, 5:31 PMtrue! I haven’t used kscript annotations for dependencies so I’m not sure how far we can take it but if those allow me to explicitly add compose dependencies then maybe we don’t need anything pre-added.
Vinay Gaba
10/19/2020, 5:32 PMAlso I just realized we are basically talking about
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Ash
10/19/2020, 5:32 PMIt will also be an amazing learning tool as people can find what they are looking for and see how it was built ...
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caelum19
10/19/2020, 5:32 PMyeah I was trying to make an npm pun earlier but couldn't think of one 😛
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/19/2020, 5:33 PMMy bad, they’re not annotations, they’re comments: https://www.kotlinresources.com/library/kscript/#script-configuration
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caelum19
10/19/2020, 5:33 PMit has both, I suppose comments would be more convenient?
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Vinay Gaba
10/19/2020, 5:33 PMI thought you were talking about this which also looked nice - https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kscript-annotations
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/19/2020, 5:34 PMwould be neat to be able to use kscript to run compose android apps… kinda like SwfitUI’s single-function apps
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/19/2020, 5:35 PMoh, that’s probably what i was thinking of. I thought i’d seen annotations for that at some point. I would normally think annotations are better, because code completion/type safety, but if you’re editing code in a gist, you don’t get auto-completion anyway so idk
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caelum19
10/19/2020, 5:35 PMJetBrain's Kotlin Script work allows for Kotlin to be interpreted instantly, which could be quite nice as well
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/19/2020, 5:37 PMDoes it work with compiler plugins?
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caelum19
10/19/2020, 6:03 PMBoy trying to find that out with Google Search is quite a rabbit hole... I'm just gonna try and see
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/19/2020, 6:06 PMIn particular, IR-based plugins.
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