What’s new in the Jetpack Compose March ’23 release

Swipe through content with the new Pager composable

Compose now includes out-of-the-box support for vertical and horizontal paging between different content. Using enables similar functionality to the ViewPager in the view system. However, just like the benefits of using LazyRow and LazyColumn, you no longer need to create an adapter or fragments! You can simply embed a composable inside the Pager:

These composables replace the implementation in the . See the and , lower level focus modifiers, , and more. This refactoring should bring performance improvements to these APIs, and you don't have to change your code to receive these benefits. Work on this continues, and we expect even more gains in future releases as we migrate Modifiers outside of the ui module. Learn more about the rationale behind the changes in the ADS talk , including backwards compatibility with older Android versions 🎉🙌. Supporting this requires no changes to your application. If you’re using a custom emoji solution, make sure to check out of using TextField. In some scenarios, a text field inside a scrollable Column or LazyColumn would be obscured by the on-screen keyboard after being focused. We like .

Marquee text using outline with shapes stamped on it using the drawStyle API.

Improvements and fixes for core features

• Test waitUntil  and returning to its previous state.
• Accessibility services in LazyList if you provide an optional onReset lambda. This improvement lets you use complex non-Compose-based Views inside LazyLists.
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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. We can’t wait to see what you build next!