Jetpack Compose

The first preview of Jetpack Compose was announced at the Google I/O conference in May 2019. The developer preview was released in October 2019, and the alpha release occurred in August 2020. Compose entered its beta phase in February 2021, with its first production release taking place that July. == Features ==

Jetpack Compose supports Android 5.0 and later. It uses the Kotlin programming language, and provides a reactive programming model similar to other UI frameworks such as Flutter, Vue.js, and React Native. The annotation is used by the Compose compiler to generate the UI boilerplate code. The 1.0 release introduced Compose Preview, which is built into Android Studio starting with Arctic Fox. It allows composables to be previewed using different configurations without deploying the app to a device. Jetpack Glance is a Jetpack Compose-based framework for developing widgets for Android. Glance's first stable release occurred in September 2023. In September 2024, the 1.0 stable version of the Jetpack Compose application programming interfaces (APIs) for building adaptive UIs with Material 3 was released. == Use ==

When Jetpack Compose 1.0 was released, Google said, "There are already over 2,000 apps in the Play Store using Compose – in fact, the Play Store app itself uses Compose." In May 2024, this number had grown to 40%. In 2022, Google detailed how it utilized Jetpack Compose as part of its rewrite of the Play Store app, stating that "writing UI requires much less code, sometimes up to 50%" and that the developers were able to improve the app's performance. Google rewrote parts of Android's Settings app using Jetpack Compose in Android 14. Meta Platforms developed its Threads social media app in five months using Jetpack Compose. The Instagram for Android app has also been written using Jetpack Compose. == Compose Multiplatform ==

Compose Multiplatform is a multi-platform UI framework developed by JetBrains and based on Jetpack Compose. It is a port of Jetpack Compose for Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web. Version 1.0 alpha was released in August 2021. ==See also==