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romainguy
05/20/2019, 2:54 AMYes, we have wrappers for existing Android views
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napperley
05/20/2019, 2:55 AMIs there a example available?
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romainguy
05/20/2019, 2:55 AMOf creating wrappers or using them?
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napperley
05/20/2019, 2:55 AMBoth.
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romainguy
05/20/2019, 2:55 AMYou'll find both in the source tree
I'm not at a computer now so can't look for their exact location
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napperley
05/20/2019, 2:56 AMCan the views be incorporated without having to use a separate XML layout?
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romainguy
05/20/2019, 3:05 AMYep
That's not new, you never had to use XML layouts before
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napperley
05/20/2019, 3:26 AMCan you please elaborate further.
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romainguy
05/20/2019, 3:27 AMXML was always optional to create layouts, that's not changing (for old views integration)
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napperley
05/20/2019, 3:31 AMFrom what I understand views could be done using the standard Android APIs, however there were no style APIs hence all styles had to be defined in XML files.
Lack of style APIs is one of the major reasons why Android developers couldn't declaratively do views in code, unless the app being developed doesn't use styles which is unlikely.
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romainguy
05/20/2019, 3:46 AMStyles have to be in XML (although...) but Views themselves can be used programmatically
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napperley
05/20/2019, 3:52 AMWill that change later on (especially with many styles being dynamic)? What do you mean by although with styles (is there a catch involved)?
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gildor
05/20/2019, 5:56 AMStyles for Views are in XML and Views work with them using styled attribute and theme API, Compose has nothing like that now, own style definition API defined in code, check source code, there are many examples
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