As I try to learn Compose, I find myself really struggling with what is Good(tm) in a compose universe, what is unacceptable, and what is just distasteful. Most of my Android experience is a couple years back, and I'm currently trying to port some BLE scanning code that has lots of references to Activities, and Intents, and RecyclerViews, but no ViewModels. So I end up having to ask myself "is there a better/newer way to do this, or is this a hold your nose moment." I am curious if anyone has any decent up to date good book recommendations? I've done a few of the official sanctioned tutorials, but I feel I'm still missing a lot of how to weave Composable functions (I get that part pretty clear) with the more stateful rest of an Android app.

The Android team made a really nice set of guides a little while back. There's some videos on MAD skills to go along with them. https://developer.android.com/topic/architecture/ui-layer It's probably also worth restructuring the rest of the code as well. There isn't much benefit to move from hiding your non-UI state in views to hiding non-UI state in Composable functions.