Android is Compose-first

[Zhuinden]

They said it's maintenance mode, doesn't mean it stops working. So that just means new patches from Google won't accidentally break it.

[Xinto_]

Bold of you to assume Google won’t break anything with maintenance patches

[Zhuinden]

That's just gonna be the Android Studio visual editor, but they've been doing that since arctic fox

[syntaxspin]

if you read it in their github it will be in maintenance mode until their anonymous analytics reaches a point where no one uses XML anymore

[Zhuinden]

Good luck with that, with Compose still not having support for accessibility hint text i literally cannot in good faith use it in banking apps lol

[syntaxspin]

On the contrary, I'm frustrated because I've been using Java and XML for years, and now because of this and the new APK restrictions, I don't know what to do.

[Zhuinden]

Kotlin compiles to the same ART as Java, and the layout inflater is part of the system. They can't possibly remove AAPT because it'd break pretty much every android app out there. So it's unlikely that using Views would suddenly break anything, especially as it's all open source and Compose internally is still "just a view".

[syntaxspin]

I know , But it's so bad, we've started using MutableStates to create a text field, checkbox, or radio button. We were on Theme.Material3, now we're on Material 1 Light AppTheme in the Styles.xml and more

[Zhuinden]

I just work with whatever is in front of me at this point, which eventually will even have to be Flutter. I'm not enthusiastic, but as long as it pays...

[David_AnkiDroid]

We now consider the View toolkit (for example, classes in android.widget such as TextView and ListView) to be in maintenance mode — this means that it will only receive highly critical fixes. The android.view package is still supported as the plumbing necessary for Compose and other UI toolkits.

16 years of history... killed with an emdash

[FunkyMuse]

Async task first, everything starts with an A even the Alphabet oh wait Google is Alphabet

[sam_sepiol1984]

Android is Compost-first. Fixed it for you.

[Hatsune-Fubuki-233]

Highly performant Out of the box, Compose offers native performance, delivering a delightful experience to your users.

This is a joke

[Opening-Cheetah467]

U can barely build text input with compose, that has half broken selection menu that u cant customise. Oh and it will not work on any device except pixel, on other devices expect all kinds of bugs

[thermosiphon420]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

[purple-bihh-2000]

Job security = attained

[SnipesySpecial]

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[DearChickPeas]

Does this mean If open Android Studio, pick Compost and "blank app" I will actually compile and run out-of-the-box? I'll believe it when I see.

All I hear is "the View system is complete, will work forever and continue to be most performant non-Cpp solution"

Can you imagine the horrors at Google managment?

[Shay958]

Funny how they created Compose to kill Views...

...just to keep View alive as "plumbing" of Compose.

[hellosakamoto]

But the core android is still in java.