Illuminating Interactions: Visual State in Jetpack Compose

This blog post will explain how to listen to user interactions in Jetpack Compose, and create reusable visual indications that can be applied across your application for a consistent and responsive user experience.

In this blog post, I’ll cover what ViewCompositionStrategy is, why it’s needed, and how you can pick the right strategy for your use case to avoid state loss.

It is a relief to know that, in 2023, we are close to having a simple, Kotlin built-in, reflection-less, compiler-validated solution for Dependency Injection in Android projects. Better late than never.

The goal of this post is to understand how recomposition works, with a short real world example, the same way one does when starting to work on a new feature. Breaking stuff is way more fun than reading docs.

Compose Multiplatform, the declarative framework from JetBrains for building cross-platform user interfaces with Kotlin, is now able to target iOS! That means you can use Compose Multiplatform to build your user interface once, 100% in Kotlin, and use it on Android, iOS, and beyond.