Can we develop any UI inside of the common layer y...

# compose-desktop

[spierce7]

Can we develop any UI inside of the common layer yet between android and desktop, or is the UI only available in the platform directories currently?

[Arkadii Ivanov]

According to samples, yes we can.

[Andrew Rudenko [JB]]

yes, you can. see examples https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/examples/codeviewer/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/ui

[spierce7]

This is fantastic

[spierce7]

I thought it was going to be at least a year before we saw anything like this materialize

[snrostov]

In fact, it is already working for Kotlin/JS also but only inside a single module due to Kotlin IR compiler plugin API limitations. Here is the demo: https://zal.im/h8/

We are preparing the sources of that prototype. But note that it is far from production, it’s just a proof of concept.

[snrostov]

also: https://twitter.com/bashorov/status/1324329633458913280 🙂

[suresh]

@snrostov thanks for the awesome work... i assume we will using the DOM elements for rendering the app instead of the flutter approach,(rendering everything on canvas) which has poor user experience ?

[snrostov]

@suresh thanks for the kind of words. Yes, the prototype working on top of DOM nodes rather than canvas. However, It may be challenging to implement a common API between platforms that are working on top of pixels and DOM nodes rendering. It is unclear how it will be in the end.