Android Developers: Powering interactive surfaces with Remote Compose

Remote Compose introduces a new way to project expressive and interactive UI onto remote surfaces like widgets. By serializing layouts into compact binary payloads, RemoteCompose decouples UI from host execution to deliver significant advantages.



Key benefits include edge interactivity that enables high-performance rendering through local execution on the remote device, fluid scaling that allows UIs to reflow across diverse form factors via remote-side component evaluations, and a unified developer workflow that removes the need for platform-specific remote UI frameworks through familiar Jetpack Compose APIs.



This session unpacks these benefits and provides live production examples, including modern Wear OS Widgets and the glanceable Wear Workout Tracker experience in Runkeeper.



Resources:

Migrate from tiles to widgets → https://goo.gle/4ig70pK

Wear OS: How to Connect and Use with Runkeeper → https://goo.gle/489xeFy



Speakers: Nicolas Roard, John Hoford, John Zoeller



Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction and overview of Remote surfaces

2:04 - Remote Compose architecture and document structure

7:25 - Rendering capabilities, components, and interaction

10:41 - Building UI with Compose APIs and expressions

14:41 - Developer tooling and document optimization

19:36 - Remote Compose in widgets and Wear OS

24:20 - What's next and wrap-up



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Event: Android Dev Summit 2026



Products Mentioned: Remote Compose, Jetpack Compose, App Widgets for Android, Wear OS