Any idea when Compose will be production ready? I am starting a new project and first customer review is December 2020. Should I start it with Compose, or ...?

Google’s plan is to release it in alpha/beta - production ready - on the next year

Absolutely not: they plan to release firsts alpha/beta (read = not stable) next year, so I wouldn’t start developing on compose now.

@Alessandro Mautone they actually said that next year they plan to release it production ready

On one hand that’s true… Everything is in beta nowadays 😕 😅 Anyway, my point was more about:

Compose

is not even out, and you cannot plan your product having such a risky dependency that could be released next year (that potentially includes December 2020, right 😛 )

@Alessandro Mautone Agree he should not work on that, but I’m sure they will announce it in one of the events they have, I/O or Android Dev Summit, they won’t wait til December 🙂

The project is quite big, the first customer review is in Dec 2020 ... the first official launch is in Dec 2022... So I know its a gamble to start with Compose, but I don't want to find myself 1 year in the project .. that we switch to compose 🙂 ... thank you for your answers

rewrite will happen anyway. either from Views to compose or with every time compose introduces a breaking change. I guess your project is more important than the framework. @Ionut Costan stick to the known and make sure you get there in time 🙂 3 years is a long time and you have a product to look after

Compose will be around for a good while, you don't need to rush. 🙂 But please do give us feedback on the things that we could do that would make your project easier

We didn't say production ready for next year

Didn’t you? My bad then, sorry 🙂

We said our plan is to have a beta next year

@romainguy any idea when a version which can be used in production apps will be launched ?

Yes

which month? year ?

We have announced an alpha later this summer and 1.0 next year