What is Jetpack Compose?
Jetpack Compose is a modern toolkit for building a Native UI in Android. It simplifies and makes easy UI development on Android. Compose is a powerful tool for building native UI and Jetpack Compose uses the Kotlin APIs. You can create a UI very easily and quickly.
Why Jetpack Compose?
Concise and Idiomatic Kotlin
- Built with the benefits that Kotlin brings
Declarative
- Fully declarative for defining UI components
Compatible
- Compatible with existing views
Enable Beautiful Apps
- Designed with Material Design
100% Kotlin
- written in Kotlin programming language
Accelerate Development
- writing less code and using tools
One codebase
- No need to write XML anymore.
Less code
- With less code, you can achieve more.
Composable Function
In Jetpack Compose, Composable functions are used for defining all the UI elements of your app programmatically. So, you need not create an XML file for your app screen design. You just need to make a composable function just by using the @Composable annotation to the function name. The basic syntax of a Composable function is as below:-
@Composable
fun UiComponent() {
// Written code for your UI element
}
UI Layouts
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