In general, I've noticed that the Compose community is behind Flutter. I'm curious if there is somet...

# compose-desktop

[Nathan Retta]

In general, I've noticed that the Compose community is behind Flutter. I'm curious if there is something similar to https://pub.dev/ for Compose, where component sharing/publishing is encouraged? I would be very happy to see that!

[Grégory Lureau]

(with a live-rendering in web compose as a bonus 🔥)

[suresh]

https://package-search.jetbrains.com/ might be useful to search for MPP. It’s mainly a facade to different maven repos.

[seb]

Hi, if you have questions about Package Search, do ask. It's also bundled in IJ 2021.2 and later (look for the Dependencies panel at the bottom). There are some limitations in what the plugin supports tho, so YMMV.

[seb]

That said, the Compose ecosystem mostly lives between Maven Central, Google's Maven, and the Gradle plugins repo

[Nathan Retta]

That is a bit fractured compared to what Google has created. React Native also has this: https://reactnative.directory/
The existence of something like this for compose would go a long way in encouraging contributions!

[Nathan Retta]

A feed showing popular packages perhaps such as RN and Flutter

[Nathan Retta]

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[Chris Sinco [G]]

In general, I've noticed that the Compose community is behind Flutter.

To be fair, Compose went stable less than a year ago, while Flutter has been stable since late 2018 🙂

[Chris Sinco [G]]

That is a bit fractured compared to what Google has created.

Compose libraries are available wherever Android libraries traditionally are, so we didn't think to create yet another repo just for Compose. It's fair though that Android libraries are fragmented across several repo sources but that is likely a consequence of not establishing a single repo location 10+ years ago.

[Chris Sinco [G]]

WRT to community sites like the RN ones you linked, there are some like this one: https://jetpackcompose.app/compose-catalog

[Nathan Retta]

Makes sense, would be awesome if there was something as user friendly as the others

[Nathan Retta]

I like that! Can that somehow be made to compete with the others in terms of being promoted to a top search result, providing popular repositories etc and promoting collaboration

[Nathan Retta]

Not sure if others feel the same way

[Arkadii Ivanov]

There is Dev Library - https://devlibrary.withgoogle.com/products/android

[Arkadii Ivanov]

Also there are third-party catalogs:
https://libs.kmp.icerock.dev/
https://github.com/terrakok/kmm-awesome
https://github.com/AAkira/Kotlin-Multiplatform-Libraries