Posted by Today, we’re releasing version 1.2 of . This release contains new features like downloadable fonts, lazy grids, and improvements for tablets and Chrome OS with better focus, mouse, and input handling.
Compose is our recommended way to build new Android apps for phone, tablets and foldables. Today we also released ship faster using Compose:
“Compose increased our productivity dramatically. It’s much easier and faster to write a Composable function than to create a custom view, and it’s also made it much easier to fulfill our designers’ requirements.”
Compose 1.2 includes a number of updates for Compose on Phones, Tablets and Foldables - it contains new stable APIs graduated from being experimental, and supports newer versions of Kotlin. We've already updated our , to work with Compose 1.2.
Note: Updating the Compose Compiler library to 1.2 requires using Kotlin 1.7.0. From this point forward the Compiler releases will be decoupled from the releases of other Compose libraries. Read more about the rationale for this in our and class provides modifiers such as , and , and replaces it as the preferred mechanism for Insets.
demonstrating this new functionality. Learn more in the were added that help write beautiful animations efficiently. Read more about how to use them in our , .New Experimental APIs
We’re continuing to bring new features to Compose. Here are a few highlights:
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to get started.
includeFontPadding and line heights (see ), ), and the addition of and . action mimics keyboard input in your tests. The new
TextField identical to the behavior in EditText.
We’re grateful for all of the bug reports and feature requests submitted to our to see the features we’re currently thinking about and working on, such as animations for lazy item additions and removals, flow layouts, text editing improvements and more!
Jetpack Compose continues to evolve with the features you’ve been asking for. We’ve been thrilled to see tens of thousands of apps using Jetpack Compose in production already, and many of you shared how it’s improved your app development. We can’t wait to see what you’ll build next!
Happy composing!
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