Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Android Developer Relations Engineer
At present, we’re releasing model 1.2 of Jetpack Compose, Android’s fashionable, native UI toolkit, persevering with to construct out our roadmap. This launch comprises new options like downloadable fonts, lazy grids, and enhancements for tablets and Chrome OS with higher focus, mouse, and enter dealing with.
Compose is our advisable solution to construct new Android apps for cellphone, tablets and foldables. At present we additionally launched Compose for Put on OS 1.0 – making Compose one of the best ways to construct a Put on OS app as properly.
We proceed to see builders just like the Twitter engineering crew ship quicker utilizing Compose:
“Compose elevated our productiveness dramatically. It’s a lot simpler and quicker to put in writing a Composable perform than to create a customized view, and it’s additionally made it a lot simpler to satisfy our designers’ necessities.”
Compose 1.2 contains quite a lot of updates for Compose on Telephones, Tablets and Foldables – it comprises new secure APIs graduated from being experimental, and helps newer variations of Kotlin. We have already up to date our samples, codelabs, Accompanist library and MDC-Android Compose Theme Adapter to work with Compose 1.2.
Word: Updating the Compose Compiler library to 1.2 requires utilizing Kotlin 1.7.0. From this level ahead the Compiler releases might be decoupled from the releases of different Compose libraries. Learn extra concerning the rationale for this in our weblog put up on impartial versioning of Jetpack Compose libraries.
New secure options and APIs
A number of options and APIs have been added as secure. Highlights embody:
New Experimental APIs
We’re persevering with to deliver new options to Compose. Listed below are just a few highlights:
Check out the brand new APIs utilizing @OptIn and give us suggestions!
Mounted Bugs
We fastened a number of points raised by the group, most notably:
We’re grateful for the entire bug stories and have requests submitted to our problem tracker – they assist us to enhance Compose and construct the APIs you want. Do proceed offering your suggestions and assist us make Compose higher!
Questioning what’s subsequent? Take a look at our up to date roadmap to see the options we’re presently interested by and dealing on, similar to animations for lazy merchandise additions and removals, stream layouts, textual content enhancing enhancements and extra!
Jetpack Compose continues to evolve with the options you’ve been asking for. We’ve been thrilled to see tens of hundreds of apps utilizing Jetpack Compose in manufacturing already, and lots of you shared the way it’s improved your app growth. We are able to’t wait to see what you’ll construct subsequent!
Joyful composing!