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Jetpack Compose Alpha is released

by yrezgui on 8/26/20, 5:06 PM with 27 comments

  • by phreack on 8/26/20, 10:38 PM

    As an Android dev, I'm confident this will become as popular as Kotlin did vs Java once it becomes stable.

    The preview looks great, it feels like it will make a breeze out of building composable small views, which in turn will mean many small libraries will be released, and on goes the virtuous cycle.

    As a fan of React and SwiftUI, I'm excited!

  • by xfour on 8/26/20, 9:29 PM

    I'm going to be that commenter. Given Google's history I want to mark this date so we can start the countdown clock.

  • by WoodenChair on 8/26/20, 10:33 PM

    For those looking for a summary: this is a SwiftUI clone for Android. SwiftUI itself is heavily inspired by React and older Functional-Reactive-Programming frameworks.

  • by nikivi on 8/26/20, 5:41 PM

    How similar Jetpack Compose is to SwiftUI?

  • by butz on 8/26/20, 6:12 PM

    I presume apps built with Jetpack Compose will be smaller than ones built with Flutter?

  • by jamil7 on 8/27/20, 5:47 AM

    I was just upgrading my side project from dev14 - dev17 I had no idea the alpha would be out so soon.

  • by odiroot on 8/26/20, 9:53 PM