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Michal Bacik
10/31/2019, 8:19 PMWhat is the official name of these
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Luca Nicoletti
10/31/2019, 8:26 PMComponentNodej
jim
10/31/2019, 8:26 PMI've been calling them "composables" (short for composable functions). I've also seen the terms "widget" and "component" used.
Node is probably more often used to describe the emittables (leaf nodes of a call tree) lower down in the Compose tech stack, so I personally/internally probably wouldn't use that word to describe the composables that users would see/use.
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Luca Nicoletti
10/31/2019, 8:29 PMI was addressing the
result that they create on UI treem
Michal Bacik
10/31/2019, 8:29 PMI preffer Widget. But creators should decide, also for sake of future documentation.
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jim
10/31/2019, 8:29 PMHaha, well, in that case,
emittablenode@Michal Bacik Well, I frequently use widget in conversation, so yeah, that's a fine word too.
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Luca Nicoletti
10/31/2019, 8:33 PMSomeone here in the channel (🧌 ) doesn’t like more than 1 way to address things, so, first thing first: set a name and make it const val
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Michal Bacik
10/31/2019, 8:34 PM@Luca Nicoletti Absolutely agree. We all know what
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Luca Nicoletti
10/31/2019, 8:35 PMIf you refer to the code, then
EmittableI was trolling 🧌, I’m fine with being able to address to them with different names
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Pablichjenkov
10/31/2019, 8:44 PMMay I ask what is emitted in this case?
is it drawing commands to the GPU?
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Michal Bacik
10/31/2019, 8:50 PM@Luca Nicoletti I don't mean how actual implementation class is named, we don't ever meet
Emittable@Composable@Pablichjenkov I'm not sure if these widgets are directly using GPU. They get chance to draw to Canvas, actually clipped rectangle on it. The Canvas is as big as the activity window. Or not?
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jim
10/31/2019, 9:36 PM@Pablichjenkov Compose bottoms out at Emittables, which are base nodes in the given view system. For example, Compose will bottom out when it hits an AndroidView (like a WebView or ViewGroup) in the hierarchy. It will also bottom out when it hits a
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Leland Richardson [G]
10/31/2019, 9:49 PMcompose UI’s emittables are
ComponentNodeand fwiw, i’ve been trying to use “composable” or “composable function” when describing composable functions
“component” is also a term i find myself using a lot, mostly due to its relation to “react component” and i think it’s a reasonable vernacular depending on who you’re talking to
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Pablichjenkov
10/31/2019, 9:55 PMComponentNodel
Leland Richardson [G]
10/31/2019, 9:59 PMcheck out Layout.kt and corresponding documentation on DAC
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Pablichjenkov
10/31/2019, 10:02 PMThanks one more time
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Fudge
10/31/2019, 10:35 PMSomeone here in the channel (🧌 ) doesn’t like more than 1 way to address things, so, first thing first: set a name and make it const valIt’s nice to know my principles are holding up. There should be an agreed way to address it. Widget is for Flutter , Component is for react, composable has too many syllables, so there isn’t a best answer I can suggest though.
If you would press me against a wall I would say component
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Pablichjenkov
10/31/2019, 10:43 PMBut then it will remind you of React.
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Leland Richardson [G]
10/31/2019, 11:07 PMi am loving the snark that is emerging out of this slack channel lol
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Emittable is a specific term that is distinct from composable functions
it means the elements of the actual tree that compose builds
and a @Composable function is not one of those elements, so Emittable isn’t up for grabs here
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Pablichjenkov
10/31/2019, 11:56 PMComposabler
romainguy
11/01/2019, 3:41 AM@jim @Leland Richardson [G] Widget is already too overloaded on Android
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Luca Nicoletti
11/01/2019, 8:36 AMViewm
Michal Bacik
11/01/2019, 8:44 AMCompo2 Views