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Hi, I was trying out compose and was wondering about its lifecycle and how to deal with it and its gotchas. The only place I found for documentation was this right here: <https://foso.github.io/Jetpack-Compose-Playground/general/compose_lifecycle/>

I was wondering if there was more. Or maybe its too early for this?

I hope its fine to ask dumb questions:

&gt; *onDispose { } will be called when the compose function isn’t part of the composition anymore.* 
When is a compose function no longer part of the composition? Is everytime that it content changes?

Like in the example in the documentation I cited:

```@Composable
fun LifecycleDemo() {
        val count = state { 0 }

        Column {
            Button(onClick = {
                count.value++
            }) {
                Text("Click me")
            }

            if (count.value &lt; 3) {
                onActive { Log.d("Compose", "onactive with value: " + count.value) }
                onDispose { Log.d("Compose", "onDispose because value=" + count.value) }
                Text("You have clicked the button: " + count.value.toString())
            }
        }
}```
If I understood it correctly, `onDispose()` is attached to `Column()` and so when `count` gets to `3` it needs to "Recompose" (not really sure if thats the correct term) because `Text()` is no longer part of it and so `onDispose()` will be called? Did I understood it correctly?

If that is the case (in a different and unrelated question) the `Column` before the `count == 3`  and the `Column` after the `count == 3` are of different instance?

Did I understood it correctly?

The way to think about it is that `onActive` and `onDispose` are themselves entities in the composition. If the surrounding condition is true, they enter the composition. If the surrounding condition becomes false, they leave the composition.

Ahhh I see, they are more like seperate entities. I was thinking of them the wrong way. Thank you very much. :heart: