Hello, I read it will be possible to use Jetpack Compose outside of android (community effort thoug...

# multiplatform

[Tristan]

Hello,

I read it will be possible to use Jetpack Compose outside of android (community effort though), and I was wondering if it would be possible to do so with any other jetpack library (room, livedata, for instance)

[mbonnin]

It's not answering the question directly but you can have a nice mpp equivalent of room and livedata with sqldelight and coroutines

[Tristan]

Sure it would definitely work. 👍

[Foso]

AFAIK Compose could be used outside of Android, because the Android Team is developing it with the Kotlin multiplatform plugin and the core runtime will have no Android specific code and is written with "common" Kotlin. Other Jetpack Libraries often rely on other Android libraries and parts are written in Java. So, they can't easily be compiled to other targets. As Martin said, the best option for now is to look at mpp equivalents.

[Kurt Renzo Acosta]

It would be like Flutter then if that's the case. I think it's better to just use Compose on Android, SwiftUI on iOS, then whatever is better for each platform.

For Room, you could use SQLDelight, as mentioned above.
For LiveData, you can use Flows.

A ConflatedBroadcastChannel behaves like a MutableLiveData

Instead of setValue or postValue, you can use offer then you can expose it as a Flow through asFlow

And to consume it, instead of fun LiveData.observe(), you can use fun Flow.collect()