Jetpack Compose is a modern toolkit for building native Android UI. It employs Kotlin and custom DSL(Domain-Specific-Language) to build screen layouts, define themes, manage view states, and add UI animations. All of these are achieved in a declarative approach that is already widely spread in ReactNative, Flutter, and iOS apps.
With Jetpack Compose, you won't be editing any XML layouts or using the Layout Editor. Instead, you will call Composable functions to say what elements you want, and the Compose compiler will do the rest. In this talk, I will be answering the following questions:
1. What are Composable functions?
2. How do I declare them?
3. We had the design view in XML. Is there a provision for this in Compose?
4. What happens to Linear layouts and constraint layouts? What are the possibilities with Compose?
5. Okay, so why should I learn this? What's in it for me?