I was invited to moderate a panel discussion on Jetpack Compose at Droidcon Americas. The panelists included engineers from Google that work on the Jetpack Compose framework. We covered a lot of ground and some of the questions that we discussed included:
- How frameworks like React inspired Jetpack Compose and how it intentionally differs?
- Balancing the maintainence of two UI toolkits simultaneously
- Multithreaded UI rendering and when we will have support for it
- How they were able to come up with significantly better APIs for the animation system in Compose
- How they think about measuring the success of Compose
- Their recommendation if one were to start a greenfield Android app today
- One thing each of them is hoping to accomplish before the 1.0 release